Work at NewsLabs

We are a small team in Rijeka, Croatia, and we do not look much like one company. Ages run from the mid-twenties to fifty. Trades run wider: programmers and mathematicians, naturally, but also people from finance, designers, journalists and a former TV presenter. Some of us spent years in newsrooms before this. Outside work it goes from fishing to climbing, with most things in between.

What we share is narrower and matters more. Everyone here is ambitious and everyone likes the work. We are also small enough that there is no department to hide in. If you join, you will talk to customers, you will see your work used within weeks, and you will hear about it when it is not good enough. Most people who like it here consider that the good part.

• Real problems, not demo problems. Languages the big models handle worse than English, wire formats older than some of our colleagues, audio recorded in a corridor, and deadlines that do not move for anyone.
• Short lines. The person who can make a decision is usually already in the conversation. You will not need a deck to change something.
• Room to own things. Roles here are defined by what you take responsibility for, not by a box on a chart. If you see something that needs doing and nobody owns it, it is yours if you want it.
• Hybrid, from Rijeka. Every role is full time with a desk in our Rijeka office. We meet in person when it helps and do not pretend a meeting is work when it does not.

Click a role for the full posting. If none of these fits but you think you belong here anyway, the address below still works.

• Media ExpertHybrid · Full timeA senior editor or CDO who has run a newsroom and now wants to shape the software one runs on. You test what we build, tell us what is missing, and help decide what comes next.Read the full posting
  NewsLabs is built for newsrooms, and the people who build it are mostly not journalists anymore. That gap is the job. You would be the person in the room who has actually run a desk, signed off a front page at four in the afternoon and lived with a CMS nobody chose.

  Day to day, you use the product the way an editor would, before customers do. You sit with newsrooms during onboarding, watch where they hesitate, and bring that back to the team as a clear case for what to build, fix or drop. You will be in the calls where we decide the roadmap, and your opinion is expected to change it.

  This is a senior role. We are looking for someone with real editorial weight, whom an editor in chief would take a call from, and who is at least as curious about what AI can do for a newsroom as they are sceptical about what it cannot.

  What you would work on

  • Test every release the way a newsroom would, and send it back when it is not ready
  • Turn what you see in newsrooms into a clear case for what we build next, and what we stop building
  • Sit with editors during onboarding and their first weeks on the product
  • Write and review the editorial rules our drafts follow: house style, sourcing, what an editor must check
  • Represent the newsroom in roadmap decisions, and be prepared to argue
  • Introduce us to newsrooms and to the people who make decisions in them

  What we look for

  • At least five years in a senior editorial or digital role: editor in chief, chief digital officer, head of digital or equivalent
  • Daily, hands-on use of AI tools in your own work, well past the default settings. You pay for subscriptions and can say why
  • Strong opinions about how a newsroom should run, and the track record to back them
  • Able to explain to an engineer what an editor needs, and to an editor what the software can and cannot do
  • Comfortable telling us we are wrong, with reasons
  • Excellent English, spoken and written. Most of the editors you work with will be in other countries

  Nice to have

  • A working network across global media, on the editorial and the business side
  • Experience with newsroom systems and their vendors: CMS, wires, archives
  • Time on the business side of publishing: audience, subscriptions or advertising
  • A public profile: talks, columns, or a newsletter people actually read

  Apply for this roleA short note and something we can look at is enough to start.
• Social Media and Content ManagerHybrid · Full timeA junior to mid role running NewsLabs' own channels: social posts, the blog, the newsletter and the words on the site. Built with Claude and connectors far more than by hand.Read the full posting
  NewsLabs makes software that produces content for newsrooms. Our own channels should show that we practise what we sell. You would own them: LinkedIn and the other networks, the blog, the newsletter, and the corporate communications that go out under the company name.

  The work is half writing and half systems. You will draft posts, blog pieces and newsletters, but you will also build the pipeline that turns one piece of news into every format it needs: HubSpot for email and contacts, Claude and its connectors for drafting and repurposing, a scheduler for the networks. If you find yourself doing the same thing by hand twice, we expect you to automate it the third time.

  You will work directly with the founders and with the people who build the product, so you will always know what is actually new. This is a junior to mid position, and we care more about what you have published and built than about years on a CV.

  What you would work on

  • Run NewsLabs' social channels, from planning to posting to reading the numbers
  • Write and publish the blog: product news, notes from newsrooms, the occasional longer piece
  • Send the newsletter, and keep the list and the segments in HubSpot clean
  • Turn one announcement into every format it needs: post, thread, email, short video script
  • Build the tooling for all of the above with Claude, skills and connectors, so the routine part runs itself
  • Handle corporate communications: press notes, event copy, the words on the website

  What we look for

  • You have published things people read: a blog, a newsletter, a brand account, a student paper. Show us
  • Clean, plain English, and the ability to write the same thing at three lengths without padding
  • Hands-on with at least one CRM or email tool, HubSpot preferred. You know what a segment and a workflow are
  • Curiosity about new tools. You already use AI assistants for real work and want to push them further
  • A decent eye for layout and images. You can tell when a post looks wrong and fix it
  • Comfortable owning a channel end to end, including the boring parts

  Nice to have

  • Basic video editing for short-form clips
  • Familiarity with Figma, Canva or a similar tool
  • Some understanding of how newsrooms work, or interest in finding out

  Apply for this roleA short note and something we can look at is enough to start.