Who we are
369 Publishing produces 3 magazine — a quarterly publication and multimedia platform for Third Culture Individuals (TCIs): the globally shaped and culturally fluid, people who move between cultures, currencies, and capitals, and who think in corridors rather than countries.
We envision a future where Third Culture Individuals are the catalyst behind unprecedented global economic and cultural prosperity. Our mission is to inspire, connect, and unlock Third Culture Individuals by providing a platform that amplifies their voices and accelerates their economic and cultural impact, globally.
369 Publishing is part of 369 Global
369 Global is a group of companies based in Canada, with a portfolio focused on skills training and workforce development, media, and international business services. 369 Global has worked at the intersection of people, business, and global opportunity. The company focuses on legacy, scale, and sustained impact, and activates global connections through deeply human experiences.
Our values
369 Global’s work is guided by five values that shape how we select, develop, evaluate, and reward the people who work with us: Dream to Reality (we are audacious optimists), Drive (dreams are realised only through execution), Innovation (we embrace change to deliver the best results possible), Bring People Together (we navigate between borders and think beyond boundaries), and Change the World (the future is third culture). Our spirit is entrepreneurial. We are nimble and flexible, and we hope you will join us on a great adventure.
Overview
3 is building the definitive digital platform for Third Culture Individuals, and we are looking for a Digital Editor to lead its editorial. This is a build, not a maintenance job — a rare chance to shape a publication’s digital voice at the stage where it is still being defined.
We hold a simple conviction: the most valuable thing a publication can offer is a deeply human point of view — clearly held, sharply written, beautifully produced. Intelligence and taste are not decoration at 3; they are the product. Our readers are global, discerning, and over-informed, and they can tell the difference immediately.
The publishing industry has not kept pace with those readers. Workflows, production cycles, and economics largely look the way they did fifteen years ago, while audiences, distribution, and tooling have changed completely. 3 is choosing to operate differently — using technology and modern editorial systems internally so that our writers and editors spend their time on the work that matters: judgement, voice, perspective, craft, and the human relationships behind every story worth reading. We are not building an AI publication. We are building a human one, and using the best tools available to produce it at speed and at scale.
This is a hands-on role for a writer-editor with a defined point of view, deep cultural fluency, and the craft to meet 3’s standard at speed. You are the writer-editor. You will conceive stories, write them, edit them, and publish them — owning the digital editorial calendar end to end, from the angle to the analytics. You will decide how technology supports the work: using our internal systems well, building automations where they earn their place, and knowing exactly when to set the tools aside and trust your own judgement. The standard never moves. The tools help you reach it faster.
Early in the engagement you should be ready to propose the digital editorial calendar — the franchises you would launch, the publishing cadence you would hold, the workflows you would build, and the audience growth you would commit to.
This role will stretch you. You will be measured by what you ship and by how well it lands with one of the most demanding audiences in publishing. If you are passionate about third culture, about ideas and intelligence, about luxury defined by taste and quality rather than gloss — and you want to prove what a modern publication can be — this is the challenge we are offering.
You will report to the Executive Vice-President, 369 Publishing, and partner daily with the Art Director.
Key Responsibilities
Story Creation and Editorial Production
- Conceive, develop, and produce digital features for 3’s website, newsletter, and subscriber platform — owning the work from idea to publish.
- Write, draft, and edit at a craft level. Your byline carries the publication.
- Use 3’s editorial skills system as a creative collaborator that supports drafting, structural editing, line editing, copy editing, and the production of social and newsletter derivatives.
- Translate quarterly print features into digital using the established print-to-digital workflow.
- Develop and ship digital franchises — recurring formats that build reader habit and platform identity.
- Maintain editorial calendar discipline and protect deadlines.
Voice and Editorial Direction
- Own the digital voice of 3 across web, email, and platform copy.
- Apply 3’s voice rules and brand standards to every piece.
- Make the editorial call on what runs and what does not.
- Review every piece for the patterns generative tools leave behind, so that nothing reaches the reader that does not read as genuinely human work.
Audience, Distribution, and Optimisation
- Write headlines and deks for search, newsletter, and social, knowing the codes for each.
- Own newsletter editorial direction, edition cadence, and structural integrity.
- Collaborate with the Art Director on visual direction for every story.
- Read and act on analytics weekly — what worked, what did not, what to repeat or retire.
- Build subscriber conversion into the editorial product rather than treating it as an afterthought.
Modern Tools and Editorial Workflow
- Use technology to support drafting, editing, and production.
- Build and refine automations and workflows that remove repetitive work and protect time for editorial craft.
- Identify gaps in the system and propose new tools, skills, or processes when the work calls for them.
- Stay current on relevant tooling and adopt selectively. The test is always editorial usefulness, not novelty.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner daily with the Art Director on visual treatment, hero imagery, and social derivatives.
- Coordinate with the Partnerships team to align branded content with editorial voice and reader experience.
- Brief the EVP regularly on calendar, performance, and strategic shifts.
Qualifications and Relevant Experience
- 5+ years digital publishing or editorial experience, ideally at a quality publication (Monocle, The Atlantic, Vogue Business, Kinfolk, or similar intelligent global titles).
- A portfolio of byline work — published features that demonstrate range, voice, and craft.
- Demonstrable AI fluency in editorial work. You can show prompt libraries, custom GPTs, Claude skills, automations, or workflow tools you have built and used in production. Surface-level familiarity is not enough.
- Editorial instinct for the over-informed, globally mobile reader.
- SEO and analytics literacy. Comfortable in GA4, search performance tools, and newsletter platforms (Substack, Beehiiv, Mailchimp, or equivalent).
- Canadian English fluency, or the ability to write in it cleanly. We use Canadian spelling as house style.
- Experience translating long-form work into digital and platform-native formats.
- Familiarity with at least one major CMS (WordPress, Webflow, or equivalent).
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism, English, communications, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated craft.
- Cross-cultural fluency: lived, worked, or studied across multiple markets, languages, or cultural contexts.
Personality Traits
We are hiring for a specific kind of person. The right candidate will read this list and recognise themselves.
- Third culture fluency. You understand the Third Culture Individual because you recognise the experience, not because you have read the market research. You have moved between cultures, languages, or countries, and you can write for that reader with authenticity rather than performance.
- A defined point of view. You have a considered take on the world and the confidence to bring it into the work. An editor without a point of view produces forgettable work, however clean it is.
- Discerning. You have real taste. You can tell the difference between good and nearly-good, and you care about the gap. Your standards hold under deadline pressure.
- Entrepreneurial. You operate like an owner. You see what needs doing and do it without waiting to be asked, you are measured by what ships, and you are comfortable with ambiguity, lean resources, and the pace of an organisation that is still being built.
- Builds for scale. You think in systems rather than one-offs. When you solve a problem, you solve it in a way that holds up the tenth and the hundredth time. You would rather build a repeatable process than become a heroic bottleneck.
- Independent. You can be handed an outcome and trusted to deliver it. You do not need close management, and you are comfortable being measured by results.
- Audacious and optimistic. You believe a small, well-equipped team can build something the industry has not seen, and you bring energy rather than cynicism to hard problems.
- Comfortable with change. A new tool, a revised process, a shift in strategy — you adapt quickly and treat change as the normal condition of the work rather than a disruption to it.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Editorial Output and Quality
- Publishing velocity (target stories per week, agreed early in the engagement).
- Story-to-publish cycle time.
- Percentage of pieces meeting brand voice standard on first pass.
- Voice consistency, reviewed quarterly.
Audience Growth
- Monthly unique visitor growth.
- Return reader rate.
- Time on page and read-through rate on long-form.
- Traffic from non-paid sources.
Subscriber Conversion
- Digital-to-subscriber conversion rate.
- Newsletter signup rate from articles.
- Subscriber retention from the digital-acquired cohort.
Newsletter Performance
- Open rate, measured against a premium-publication benchmark of 35–40%.
- Click-through rate.
- List growth and list quality (active subscriber percentage).
- Subscriber-to-paid conversion within the newsletter funnel.
Workflow and Tooling
- New automations or workflow improvements built.
- Time saved per piece, tracked over the engagement as the system matures.
- Quality of output from tool-assisted production, measured against a human-only baseline.
Engagement Quality
- Save and share rates on social derivatives.
- Quality engagement on long-form (comments and replies).
- Search ranking on franchise-defining terms.
3 Magazine is an inclusive work environment and as such has a workplace accommodation policy in place. Accommodations are available, upon request, for the interview process and other selection stages for job applicants with accessibility needs.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used to assist in screening and assessing applicants.
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person
