Work With Us
Pirate Wires is hiring. To better manage America’s insatiable demand for our content, we’re expanding our operation significantly, with increased publishing volume, more contributor pieces, massive features, and secret new products. Our goal: continue publishing the weirdest, most exciting analysis, journalism, and opinion on the internet. And we’re looking for full-time stars to join us.
You’re a fit for the team if you’re extremely curious, and adept at finding the hidden connections between technology, politics, and culture (internet drama, in other words, who are we kidding). In general, we’re looking for great conversationalists interested in weird shit we don’t yet know about, and — maybe most importantly — people with a unique perspective on the state of our country and world. You should learn and show improvement, be enthusiastic (not defensive) about feedback, and always be ambitious with your ideas.
Associate Editor
Work with the managing editor and Solana on edit strategy, pipeline, and workflow
Be metrics oriented: identify topics, angles, and other tactics that increase the likelihood of a piece killing it in terms of performance
Source and work with new writers
Develop story ideas for and with staff writers, contributors, managing editor, and Solana
Fact-check, proofread, edit, and occasionally perform surgery on content before publish
Make sure our stories have legitimate sources and experts
Format pieces in our CMS to be publish-ready
Write and program banger posts for our social media accounts
Pitch and write your own Pirate Wires 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 trends in the discourse
Tech Reporter
Develop our tech beat with weekly reporting, in-depth investigation, and occasional features covering super inspiring, mind-bending new technology, to embarrassing scandals, to straight tech news that’s relevant to our readers
Develop an extensive list of contacts inside the biggest, most influential, and most interesting tech companies
Jump on breaking stories in tech and be able to turn them into drafts on quick turnaround, and be on-call during off-hours when there’s an opportunity to be early on a story
Brainstorm and flesh out story ideas with Solana et al; always be pitching new ideas
Collaborate with managing editor and Solana on shaping, editing, and fact checking your pieces
Write banger posts and threads for our social media accounts
Newsroom experience a plus, and if you already have contacts in tech — huge
Writer
Write multiple articles a month, ranging from quick-hit writeups to stories that need research and reporting
Develop story ideas with managing editor, Solana, and edit team; always be pitching new ideas
Write several bite-size pieces of content daily
Write banger posts and threads for our social media accounts
Be on-call during off-hours when there’s an opportunity to be early on a story
Researcher
Act as the vanguard for new story ideas, helping us establish if there’s a ‘there there’
Create comprehensive story briefs that will serve as the launching point for new PW articles
Provide managing editor, Solana, and writing team with concise summaries of statistics, background information, and other story elements that we need clarified, fleshed out, or a deeper understanding of
Be able to quickly grok a range of subjects and articulate them to the team concisely and coherently
Work with edit crew and Solana to develop story ideas
Be on-call during off-hours when we need research on a developing story we’re going to cover
Here’s how to apply: for the Associate Editor, Writer, or Reporter position, email brandon@piratewires.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. If you’re applying for the Researcher position, send an email with the same subject line that convinces us we can’t live without you, and attach your resume.
-Brandon Gorrell
