Staff Editor, Voleon
Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For more than a decade, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying machine learning to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.
Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. You will be working with strategies that are at the forefront of machine learning and statistical trading. The strategies have been carefully designed to generate non-correlated returns. Our firm and its strategies are the product of many years of meticulous research and craftsmanship, and you will lead the way in bringing them to investors.
In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.
As a Staff Editor at Voleon, you will take a leading role in improving our written communications. Your goal will be to achieve and maintain the highest writing standards at the firm. Our copy is wide ranging, from formal investor letters to internal technical documents. You will work closely with a wide variety of teams to develop and document a consistent Voleon house style. You will also supply proofreading, copyediting, and other manuscript-revision expertise. You will need to enhance our drafting, editing, and approval processes firmwide. Expect to teach writing clinics.
Requirements
- Interest in collaborating with subject-matter technical experts. To improve their written communications, you need to understand what they are trying to say.
- Working knowledge of investment concepts or a willingness to learn about them.
- 10 years of editing experience
The base salary range for this position is $140,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.
