About the Role
Title: Web Publisher, Credit Cards | Bankrate
Location: Remote: United States
Job Description:
Red Ventures is looking for a Web Publisher who will be responsible for uploading editorial and SEO content to our portfolio of financial services websites. The web publisher will need to translate content into coded HTML, edit and format content, execute a monthly cross-functional team-wide project to market Bankrate products and perform site maintenance tasks to enhance performance and user experience. The web publisher will also be responsible for assisting and brainstorming content strategy initiatives on Bankrate.com.
The web publisher will collaborate with both technical and creative teams including editorial, compliance, developers, and SEO in order to develop and publish quality, engaging content and improve our sites’ strategy. The right candidate will also be able to stay up to date on industry topics and trends.
We’re looking for someone who is process-oriented and has a close attention to detail. You have strong written communication skills, and feel comfortable communicating with colleagues at different levels. Your strong interpersonal skills are backed by a comfort with website technologies (content management systems and HTML) and workflow tools like Google Suite, Microsoft Office, and Asana/Jira.
What You’ll Do:
- Upload, update, and maintain web pages to be timely and error-free
- Add formatting, headlines, and hyperlinks to finished content using multiple content management system (CMS) tools and HTML
- Find and update broken links, outdated images, formatting errors utilizing crawl tools
- Workflow maintenance: monitor and update workflow tools (Asana, Google sheets, Jira) daily to ensure that assignments are flowing through the steps properly. Assess and mitigate any blockers.
- Work closely day to day with project managers and collaborate with teammates to prioritize daily tasks and projects to ensure high-quality, on-deadline content deliverables to all stakeholders.
- Take ownership of multiple monthly processes and side projects: communicating with cross-functional teams to meet task requirements on tight deadlines.
- Develop a full understanding of our custom WordPress-based CMS, building templated individual articles and facilitating the enhancement of complex programs and pages.
- Work with custom HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Understand how various administrative panels work and how to implement changes to our content using them
- Work closely with SEO and marketing analysts to develop strategy
What We’re Looking For:
- Advanced knowledge of semantic HTML (hyperlinks, paragraph formatting, tables, and lists)
- Some familiarity with WordPress, Storyblok or other CMS systems
- Excellent project management and communication skills
- Ability to adapt quickly to shifting priorities while keeping up with fast-paced content production processes
- Ability to meet tight deadlines while working independently to manage multiple publishing projects
- Ability to collaborate with editors, compliance, designers, project managers, and web development teams
- A strong sense of how to organize and visualize information
- Basic copyediting/writing experience
- Microsoft Office/Google Suite proficiency (Excel, Outlook, and Word)
- Content and/or design background is helpful for role
- Potential interest in editorial, technical, or project management