Head of Research & Editorial

About Platform Engineering Platform Engineering ( platformengineering.org ) is home to the world's largest community of platform engineers. Through PlatformCon , one of the world's largest conferences dedicated to platform engineering, we bring together more than 50,000 engineers, technology leaders, and decision-makers every year to share ideas, showcase innovation, and shape the future of internal developer platforms. Alongside our events, we run a university, a newsletter read by hundreds of thousands of engineers, a growing YouTube channel, and Weave Intelligence , our research arm: the analyst practice behind the State of Platform Engineering report, market guides on the platform engineering reference architecture, and a growing set of data products on how the agentic enterprise is actually being built. About the Role We're looking for a Head of Research & Editorial to lead Weave Intelligence and own what we say about the industry. This is the role that owns Platform Engineering's intellectual agenda. Everything we publish across every channel starts with a thesis about where platform engineering, internal developer platforms and agentic software development are going. Today that thesis lives in the heads of our founders. You will make it a practice: a research agenda, an editorial calendar, a standard for what counts as evidence, and a team that turns it into reports, guides, articles, courses and video that the market reads first. You'll be a named analyst, not a manager of analysts. You will publish under your own byline, take briefings from vendors, sit on our analyst desk at PlatformCon and at KubeCon, re:Invent and Google Cloud Next, and represent Weave in the press. We want you to become one of the voices the industry associates with platform engineering. You'll also lead the content team that already exists and works: a content operations lead who runs the engine and manages our designers, a narratives and quality lead who holds the bar on every piece, and a video producer who is building our channel. The production engine already exists. Your job is to decide where it points, raise the intellectual and editorial bar, and spend meaningful time doing the research and writing yourself What you'll do Own the house thesis on platform engineering, PE++ and the agentic enterprise, and keep it ahead of the market. Run a quarterly theme calendar that every report, article, webinar, course and video hangs off, and make sure content, events and sales are telling the same story. Set the split between net-new thought leadership backed by our own data and rapid-response analysis of what the market is discussing, and decide which topics deserve which. Lead the Weave Intelligence analyst practice: research agenda, methodology standards, editorial ownership of the State of Platform Engineering and State of AI & Platform Engineering reports, market guides, and the vendor briefings program. Apply and defend our firewall: sponsors buy distribut