Work with us

Pirate Wires is hiring. With the information landscape now reduced to daily fits of useless, clown world chaos, there has never been a more important time to work in media. Writers are the sensemakers — or, that’s what they’re supposed to be — and we are living in a golden age of nonsense. But among press outlets not actively contributing to the noise, a single perspective dominates, and it is as tedious as it is irrelevant. Pirate Wires is doing something different.

Are you a talented, charming malcontent? Are you a shitposting master strategist with a chip on your shoulder? Or are you just a curious, conversational normie interested in the hidden connections between the intersecting worlds of technology, politics, and culture… looking for a red pill (Lana’s version)?

Then we’re looking for you. Check out our available positions, and introduce yourself. Contact details all below.

Join, or die.

-Solana

Associate Editor

We’re looking for our managing editor’s right hand, charged with shaping high-level editorial strategy for the company, and bringing in new writers. A demanding job for highly-creative former disgruntled English majors looking to actually make an impact (you don’t really need an English degree (I genuinely don’t even care if you went to college)).

  • Work with the managing editor on editorial strategy, pipeline, and workflow

  • Source and work with new writers — the key piece here, as we’re looking for someone capable of really owning an entire major branch of our coverage

  • Develop story ideas for and with staff writers, contributors, managing editor, and EIC 

  • Fact-check, proofread, edit, and occasionally perform surgery on content before publication

  • Write and program for our social media accounts

  • Pitch and write your own pieces

  • Be on-call during off-hours when there’s an opportunity to jump on a story 

  • Always be surfacing the weird, fascinating, and exciting new trends in information (drama)

APPLY: email brandon [at] piratewires dot com, subject line POSITION TITLE - YOUR FULL NAME, with a few writing samples and story ideas — we might want you to write one as part of the vetting process.

Graphic Designer

  • Work with our EIC on Pirate Wires branding and visual identity

  • Own the newsletter’s entire visual identity

  • Daily graphics for the flagship (Pirate Wires)

  • Original art for larger feature reporting

  • Interest in designing and owning our swag would be a major + (I need a sick Pirate Wires bandana yesterday)

APPLY: email brandon [at] piratewires dot com, subject line POSITION TITLE - YOUR FULL NAME, with a link to your portfolio, and a maybe a few choice samples. If you have any thoughts on the Pirate Wires brand in general, feel free to share it.

Tech Reporter

  • Newsroom experience a plus, and preference for writers who already have contacts in tech

  • Develop a beat with weekly reporting, in-depth investigation, and occasional features covering everything from inspiring, mind-bending new technology to media fact checks and straight tech news relevant to our readers 

  • Develop an extensive list of contacts inside the biggest, most influential, and most interesting tech companies in the country

  • Jump on breaking stories in tech, and shape them into drafts on quick turnaround

  • Be on-call during off-hours if opportunity presents itself

  • Brainstorm and flesh out story ideas with EIC et al; always be pitching new ideas 

  • Collaborate with managing editor and EIC on shaping, editing, and fact checking your pieces

  • Write banger posts and threads for our social media accounts

APPLY: email brandon [at] piratewires dot com, subject line POSITION TITLE - YOUR FULL NAME, with a few writing samples and story ideas — we might want you to write one as part of the vetting process.

Writer

  • This is a newsletter position — aggregate news, fascinating stories, memes, social media posts

  • Develop a perspective, and work closely with the EIC on the Pirate Wires voice, as we weave the news into a daily story

  • Select a lead story, and run each first draft

  • Write and program for our social media accounts

  • Be on-call during off-hours when there’s an opportunity to be early on a story

APPLY: email brandon [at] piratewires dot com, subject line POSITION TITLE - YOUR FULL NAME, with a few writing samples and story ideas — we might want you to write one as part of the vetting process.