Location: Flexible (global hub preferred + willing to spend time at HQ)
Reports to: Board of Directors
Publisher
Rest of World is a nonprofit publication rewriting the map of global tech journalism, telling stories of innovation, adaptation and rising power beyond the Western bubble. In our first five years, our award-winning newsroom has reported from more than 100 countries, covering the long tail of tech everywhere: AI, e-commerce, Big Tech, autonomous cars, semiconductors, creator economics, crypto frauds, and beyond.
As the global order continues to shift amid transformational new technology, Rest of World is also evolving to meet the moment. We’re becoming more focused, more innovative and more essential to the globally curious professionals in Western markets, primarily North America, the UK and Europe.
To help lead Rest of World through this next chapter, we are seeking a strategic and entrepreneurial Publisher to join the publication. This is a rare opportunity to take the reins of an internationally respected newsroom and help reshape it for impact, sustainability and engagement in this new era.
The publisher will be responsible for the business, brand, and sustainable growth of Rest of World, with a key focus on driving revenue diversification and establishing multiple funding streams. This includes developing and executing strategies to grow audience engagement, expand monetization, and build partnerships. You’ll work closely with the Editor-in-Chief and senior leadership to ensure the publication is editorially excellent, operationally sound, and widely read by the people who impact the world.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Translate our renewed mission into a clear multi-year strategy
- Align editorial, audience, and revenue teams around core goals
- Champion a data-informed culture of clarity, relevance, and accountability
Revenue & Partnerships
- Grow and diversify revenue streams, including philanthropy, content licensing, and strategic sponsorships, well beyond the founder’s annual support
- Cultivate relationships with donors, industry, and corporate supporters aligned with our mission
- Develop premium products and partnerships aimed at a global professional audience
Brand & Audience
- Sharpen our positioning as the leading voice on tech for Western professionals
- Build high-impact content partnerships with aligned institutions (media, policy, academic, and tech platforms)
- Ensure that editorial work is distributed effectively and reaches the right, influential audiences
- Maintain a deep understanding of industry trends, audience preferences, and the competitive landscape to identify new opportunities for reaching our readers
Organizational Leadership
- Lead and manage the organization, including setting publishing strategies, driving reader growth, and ensuring financial sustainability
- Collaborate with the Founder on implementing the direction and structure for our next phase
- Recruit and retain world-class talent across the editorial and business sides
- Uphold a culture of clarity, innovation, and purpose
Qualifications
- Have led or helped build a media or nonprofit organization with global ambition
- Have a sharp instinct for audience, influence, and revenue, with demonstrated experience in tying all three together
- Be able to scale smartly, knowing when to grow, when to pause, and when to prune
- Know how to lead amid tech disruption, especially the opportunity GenAI offers to publishing organizations
- Be passionate about international journalism, equity in tech, and storytelling that changes how the world sees itself
- Know how to manage ambiguity, make tough calls, keep costs lean, and bring people with you, especially in times of change
- Experience with nonprofit journalism, content licensing, or philanthropy is a plus
- Deep networks in tech, policy, or global affairs are a plus
What We Offer
- A powerful, respected media brand with room to grow
- A world-class newsroom and talented team
- The opportunity to reshape a publication with a meaningful mission
- Support from a committed founder and board
- A flexible, international working environment
The probable salary range is between $350,000 and $450,000 annually, depending on qualifications.
Applications, Inquiries, and Nominations
Please apply here via URL Media.
If you have questions, please contact talent@url-media.com, and we will try to answer swiftly.
Attention: Leonor Ayala & Sonali Kohli, Subject: Publisher, Rest of World.
Leonor Ayala, URL Media, Chief, Recruitment & Business Development
Sonali Kohli, URL Media, Senior Recruiter
Email: talent@url-media.com
Screening of complete applications will begin immediately and continue until the search process is completed. Inquiries, nominations, referrals, and resumes with cover letters should be sent. Electronic submission of materials is strongly encouraged.
About Rest of World
Rest of World is an international non-profit newsroom that challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter. We connect dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated.
Since launching in 2020, we’ve published stories from nearly 100 countries outside the West. Our work explores the spaces where tech, business, culture and human experience collide, through compelling storytelling and fresh, innovative design.
Our journalism ranges from deep authoritative reporting to highlighting surprising online cultural phenomenons. We’ve covered everything from gig workers, internet shutdowns, and supply chain abuses to livestreaming battles, disappeared influencers, and unexpected crypto contagion. Our reporting has won recognition in the U.S. and internationally, and our work has prompted companies and policymakers to take action.
Working at Rest of World
At Rest of World, we are building a team that values diversity and believes in telling stories from communities and countries that are often ignored around the world. Here’s what U.S.-based employees can expect when they join us:
- Competitive salary (with a raise, promotion and merit bonus framework based on performance and tenure)
- Vacation (20 days)
- Sick leave (10 days)
- Annual holidays (15 days)
- 401(k) plan (employer matching up to $12,500 per year)
- Flexible Spending Plan (for qualifying medical and dependent care expenses)
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- Fertility support and family building benefits through Maven
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance (employer-paid)
- Life insurance (employer-paid)
- Supplemental benefit schemes for commute, wellness, childcare and cell phone costs
For roles based outside the United States, Rest of World strives for parity with U.S benefit offerings, subject to local regulations and restrictions. Rest of World also offers non-U.S.-based employees further supplemental benefit schemes including a coworking allowance and a home office/connectivity allowance.
Rest of World is an equal-opportunity workplace. We value inclusion and diversity, and anyone who applies and qualifies for opportunities in the organization will receive consideration for employment without discrimination against age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, color or disability.
