Job Description
Senior Content Editor
Content
Hi, we’re TechnologyAdvice.
At TechnologyAdvice, we pride ourselves on helping B2B tech buyers manage the complexity and risk of the buying process. We are a trusted source of information for tech buyers, delivering advice and facilitating connections between our buyers and the world’s leading sellers of business technology.
Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, we are a remote-first company with more than 20 digital publications and over 500 global team members in the US, UK, Singapore, Australia, and the Philippines. We’re proud to have been repeatedly recognized as one of America’s fastest growing private companies by Inc., as well as a Tennessee top workplace. We work hard each day and have fun, too, with monthly virtual events, recreational slack channels, and the occasional costumed dance from our CEO.
All positions are open to remote work unless otherwise specified in the requirements below.
The opportunity
We’re looking for an enthusiastic Senior Content Editor to be an integral part of our content team! You will be the gatekeeper of quality for our Fit Small Business website. You’ll work in concert with your Directors of Content and Content Producers to ensure a high-quality, efficient, and effective content production process for the content under your purview. You’ll also manage and coach staff writers, freelancers, and editors to ensure they’re always doing their part to ensure we’re delivering the best answers to our audience’s small business questions.
What you’ll do
- Ensure each piece of published content is the best answer for FSB readers.
- Fully understand the reader journey and confidently make suggestions on how we can improve our answers based on this understanding. This includes linking to other content, infographics, video, sliders, buttons, TOCs, CTAs, call-out boxes, and anything else that will help us deliver a better answer for our readers. You are the Editor-in-charge (EIC) checkpoint for the articles you edit.
- Hire, onboard, train, manage and Staff Writers, Freelancers, and Editors, ensuring that expectations are clear and regular feedback is provided against performance against those expectations.
- Develop writers and editors so their performance and overall production and quality continue to grow. Help the team through challenges and prepare them for the next level.
- Work in concert with our Content Producers to autonomously drive the execution of the topic team’s strategies with staff writers and editors.
- Own and consistently improve our publishing process in a manner that helps us consistently and cost effectively produce a higher quality and quantity of content.
- Stay up to date on Topic Team and Company goals, play an active role in creating those goals, and ensure those goals are met.
- You use Topic Overview Reports, North Star Reports, and the Competitive Landscape Report to identify areas of weakness to be addressed and areas of strength (both within your and other topic teams) to further leverage in the topics under your purview.
- Know our competitors and ensure our answers are better than theirs not by a little bit, but by a mile.
Who you are
- You have 3-4 years plus editing experience
- Previous writing experience preferred
- You have 2-3 years of people management experience
- You are proactive and have strong leadership skills
- You know how to supervise and mentor people well and are a problem solver
- You have an experienced understanding of SEO
- You are self-motivated and able to manage your time to meet deadlines
- You meet your KPIs and ensure your team meets theirs
- You know how to motivate writers and editors to meet deadlines
- You are open to feedback, and know how to apply it effectively for change
- You are passionate about delivering the best answers to people’s questions
- Agile professional who excels in a fast-paced environment and thrives on continuously pivoting strategies to drive business needs forward