Join us at Legis1, where technological innovation meets the policymaking landscape. Legis1 provides unparalleled insights and analysis on Congress, lobbying, and the legislative process. Our feature-rich platform enables our users to unlock insights, build connections, manage risks, and stay informed of legislative actions impacting them.
Born from a collaborative effort among former Hill practitioners, academics, product managers, designers, engineers, and commercial experts, Legis1 is at the forefront of congressional and lobbying data and analysis.
Legis1 is located in North Bethesda and maintains a presence on Capitol Hill.

POSITION
We are seeking a policy-savvy News Editor with a newsroom/editorial background to curate, edit, and contextualize content across Legis1’s legislative intelligence platform and related products. The ideal candidate has robust government/policy literacy, a strong editorial pedigree, and demonstrated ability to produce accurate, compelling content under tight deadlines. This role blends policy interpretation with editorial standards to ensure platform-wide consistency, accuracy, and discoverability.
This role focuses on high-stakes political and policy content, requiring deep policy fluency, newsroom-grade editing, and rapid turnaround for fast-paced digital delivery.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Edit including breaking news, live blogs, enterprise pieces, newsletters, and long-form analyses.
Maintain and enforce style, tone, length, accuracy, grammar, and legal/policy precision across all outputs; ensure alignment with project specifications and client expectations.
Apply platform-specific formatting and quality standards, ensuring consistency across tiers of publication (short briefs to in-depth deep dives).
Optimize content for searchability and digital discoverability; assist with headlines, decks, photo captions, and multimedia alignment in collaboration with multimedia editors.
Vet political and policy details for accuracy; verify date...