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Editorial Researcher

🏢 Ycombinator · 📍 San Francisco · ⏰ FullTime
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 6,000 companies, including Airbnb, Dropbox, OpenAI, Stripe, Reddit, DoorDash, Coinbase, and Instacart. Today, YC has built the most powerful startup community in the world and is committed to supporting founders for the life of their company.

Job Description:

Y Combinator is looking for an Editorial Researcher to join the YC Media team. We make content for people who are curious about startups, technology, AI, science, and the future. That includes videos and podcasts, essays, original research, and new projects built around the enormous amount of knowledge and data that exists inside YC.

We're looking for someone who is unusually curious, technically inclined, and a very good writer. You should be able to understand a complicated idea, figure out what's actually interesting about it, and explain it simply without dumbing it down.

This isn't a traditional writing or editing job. You'll research stories, analyze data, develop ideas with YC partners and founders, help shape videos and podcasts, write and edit articles, and experiment with new kinds of editorial projects.

What you'll do:

  • Research, write, and edit YC’s written content.

  • Develop ideas and do research for YC videos, podcasts, interviews, and other media.

  • Work directly with YC partners, founders, and the rest of the Media team to turn interesting ideas into great content.

  • Dig into data to find surprising trends about startups, technology, founders, and what people are building.

  • Find interesting people, projects, papers, companies, and ideas before everyone else is talking about them.

  • Help us figure out what YC should be covering and why.

  • Take complicated technical subjects and make them clear, accurate, and interesting.

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Assessing extreme founder-like agency, intellectual horsepower, and the ability to operate autonomously with zero hand-holding in chaotic, high-growth ecosystems.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Bureaucratic mindset, reliance on top-down directives, or preference for endless consensus-building.
  • 2. Lack of strong, opinionated points of view on technology trends and software markets.
  • 3. Egos or rigidity when subjected to fast-paced, direct peer feedback.
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