About Amber
Amber is building the global infrastructure for student housing, helping 80M+ students find and book long-term accommodation near universities. With 1M+ listings across 80+ cities, we are scaling rapidly toward $1B in annual bookings — and leveraging AI to transform how we operate, build, and scale.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Editor, Research & Insights. This role sits at the intersection of deep research, content strategy, and thought leadership. You will drive Amber’s market intelligence function, producing high-quality research while also shaping B2B narratives through content, reports, and industry engagement.
Key Responsibilities
Build and lead Amber's research and editorial programme from scratch — setting the standards, the publication rhythm, and the analytical methodology that defines how the sector comes to see Amber as a data authority.
Produce rigorous, long-form analytical work covering the global student housing market — flagship publications, regular shorter-form pieces, and reactive expert commentary — at a standard the sector's most credible publications would recognise as institutional quality.
Own distribution through your personal journalist and editor network. The work reaches its audience because you have peer relationships with the people who matter in this sector — not because it is pitched through an agency or a press office.
Work with Amber's internal data team to identify the findings that are analytically significant and editorially compelling, and translate those findings into claims the data actually supports.
Represent Amber as a named editorial voice — publishing under your own byline, building your professional presence in the sector, and ensuring that Amber's analysis is associated with a credible individual identity as well as a company brand.
Support Amber's spokespeople when analysis generates media interest — preparing briefing notes and ensuring public commentary is consistent with published work.
Ideal Candidate Profile
Writing & analytical craft
8 to 12 years of experience producing serious analytical or investigative journalism for business, financial, or policy publications
Published work that demonstrates the ability to build an argument from data, address counterarguments, and reach a conclusion the evidence actually supports
Writing quality that would be editorially credible at the FT, Economist, Bloomberg, Reuters, or equivalent — not in terms of institutional affiliation but in terms of the standard of rigour and precision
Experience writing long-form analysis (2,000+ words) and short reactive commentary (300–500 words) at equal quality — the ability to shift register without losing analytical discipline
Quantitative literacy
Genuinely comfortable working with large datasets — not as an analyst or data scientist, but as a journalist who can interrogate a dataset, identify the significant finding, and know what it does and does not prove
Understanding of basic statistical concepts — sample size, significance, correlation vs causation — sufficient to design a defensible methodology and explain it to a sceptical journalist or editor
Experience commissioning or working with survey research — understanding what makes a survey methodology credible and what makes it vulnerable to challenge
Ability to identify when data is being misrepresented, including in Amber's own analysis — and the professional confidence to push back when it is
Journalist network
Relationships that are genuinely peer-to-peer — journalists who will take your call, read what you send them, and trust your editorial judgement because they know your work
Able to name, in an interview, five or more journalists currently working at relevant publications who would respond to a direct outreach from you — and to describe the specific nature of each relationship
Network that includes at least some overlap with UK and international publications, not exclusively domestic
What This Role Is Not
We are being explicit about this to avoid a mismatch in expectations on both sides.
A content marketing manager producing SEO articles and social posts
A PR manager pitching stories to journalists on behalf of the company
A role for someone whose primary measure of success is content volume
Why Join Amber
Genuine editorial independence
Access to proprietary data that no independent journalist or analyst has - years of booking and pricing data globally
A company at the right stage — large enough to have the data and the resources to support serious research, early enough in its PR maturity that this role builds something genuinely new rather than inheriting an established but mediocre programme.
Direct access to senior leadership as editorial sources and spokespeople — CEO, regional VPs, and the data team
Competitive compensation and performance incentives
