Editor - web publishing

Our client, a rapidly growing media company based in Southern California, renowned for its diverse and expanding portfolio of exceptional digital content brands, is seeking to hire an Editor - Web Publishing.

The talented, global team works 100% remotely, collaborating with team members from the US, Canada, Australia, France, Greece, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines.

Our client is in an exciting scale-up phase and is looking for individuals who excel in this dynamic environment. If you thrive when given autonomy and opportunity, this is your chance to do the best work of your career.

Why We're Hiring For This Role

We are expanding, building, and optimizing content sites that deliver top-tier advice, reviews, and experiences. To maintain our high expertise, experience, authority, and trustworthiness standards, we need a talented and enthusiastic editor to prepare new content for each site punctually and consistently. You'll be the first set of eyes on the content before publication, ensuring no bottlenecks or backlogs. Meticulous attention to detail and a solid understanding of workflows, SEO, and affiliate content creation are essential.

About The Role

As an editor, you will own and support various tasks including, but not limited to, editing, fact-checking, running final grammar and structure checks, adding/editing content to meet SEO best practices, communicating with writers, and ensuring a consistent tone in our posts. You will be editing content from at least three unique sites, with the potential for up to five, meaning you need to understand the needs of various platforms. Ideally, you have worked in content production spaces before, are comfortable with SEO best practices, and know how to edit content to meet high standards. A passion for content workflows, increasing publishing capacity, and efficiency is a plus.

You'll be part of a fast-paced, small-but-mighty team with ambitious goals. You'll report directly to our Operations Manager and work closely with our publishing editorial team to meet objectives.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Finalizing and editing content daily, including adding or rearranging submitted content to meet high standards.
• Acting as the first point of contact for writers, communicating successes, missed sections, monthly word count totals, and monthly capacities to ensure smooth content flow.
• Learning what success looks like for this role and understanding the level of editing each piece requires.
• Communicating via Slack, Asana, and weekly direct-report meetings.
• Contributing to and editing multiple content assets, from short informational pieces to long-form buying guides, ensuring they meet audience needs, align with growth strategy, and are optimized for maximum ranking results.
• Overseeing tone and voice across all deliverables to meet individual site goals.
• Finalizing content for publication, working towards independence and self-reporting, and ensuring each piece is factual, SEO-optimized, valuable, engaging, and entertaining.
• Acting as an editorial leader, helping others become better writers through guidance, education, and self-serve tools.

Who You Are

An experienced, friendly, and organized editor in the Web Publishing industry capable of consistently editing a high volume of content each month.

What You'll Bring

• Meticulous attention to detail: A strategic and detail-oriented editor with an exceptional grasp of written and spoken English. You consider the purpose of each deliverable from both company and reader perspectives, always striving to elevate content quality.
• Location: Citizen of the UK, Ireland, Canada, Belize, New Zealand, or Australia.
• Excellent communicator: Proactive with a sense of urgency, able to anticipate blockers and delays before escalation is required.
• Passionate about your craft: You are engaged with the content marketing space, always thinking about ways to improve content quality. Self-motivated and experienced in affiliate content, you understand its unique needs.
• Autonomous worker: Confident in recommending new strategies and implementations. You see content as a holistic experience and have a good eye for visual presentation. You have opinions on everything from em dashes to AI tools for content creation and are willing to share and challenge us.
• SEO expertise: Experienced and knowledgeable in SEO best practices, capable of editing content to meet these requirements.
• Remote work experience: Comfortable with independent reporting and communication, familiar with tools like Slack, Asana, Google Workspace, and WordPress.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with gardening/wellness publications
• Knowledge of knife and EDC content is a plus
• Background in SEO and content strategy

How to Apply

Interested candidates should provide details of their relevant editing experience and a paragraph about why they feel they are a perfect fit for this role. Please include samples of live, published editing/proofreading work, specifying the process you performed for each reference.

We look forward to seeing how you can contribute to our client's success!

This is a full-time contract and remote role.