Editor
GOBankingRates.com is a personal finance news and features website dedicated to helping visitors Live Richer™
From tips on saving money to investing for retirement or finding a good interest rate, GOBankingRates helps turn financial goals into milestones and money dreams into realities. Its content is regularly featured on top-tier media outlets, including MSN, Yahoo!, FOX Business, CNBC, Business Insider, USA Today and dozens of others. GOBankingRates specializes in connecting consumers with the financial institutions and products that best match their needs
What's Interesting About This Role?
We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Editor to join our content team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for editing, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to work at a fast pace while maintaining high-quality standards. This role requires someone who can optimize content for SEO and work closely with freelance writers and editors to ensure our content meets the needs of our audience and partners.
How Will You Make an Impact?
Benefits
Here's a peek into our world at GOBankingRates -
From tips on saving money to investing for retirement or finding a good interest rate, GOBankingRates helps turn financial goals into milestones and money dreams into realities. Its content is regularly featured on top-tier media outlets, including MSN, Yahoo!, FOX Business, CNBC, Business Insider, USA Today and dozens of others. GOBankingRates specializes in connecting consumers with the financial institutions and products that best match their needs
What's Interesting About This Role?
We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Editor to join our content team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for editing, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to work at a fast pace while maintaining high-quality standards. This role requires someone who can optimize content for SEO and work closely with freelance writers and editors to ensure our content meets the needs of our audience and partners.
How Will You Make an Impact?
- Edit and optimize 6-8 articles daily, ensuring content is high-quality, accurate, and engaging.
- Focus on increasing traffic to GOBankingRates content through effective SEO practices.
- Work on both partner-focused titles and SEO-driven titles to meet various content goals.
- Generate and pitch 6-8 data-backed title ideas daily to drive audience engagement and traffic.
- Help evolve and maintain content standards to ensure consistency and quality across all published materials.
- Oversee the entire workflow of content production, from writing assignment briefs to fact-checking and editing copy, to preparing posts for publication.
- Ensure timely delivery of content and adherence to deadlines.
- Work closely with our network of freelance writers and editors, providing guidance, feedback, and support to ensure the highest quality of work.
- Foster strong relationships with freelancers to build a reliable and efficient content production process.
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in a writing and/or editing role, producing high-volume content for an online publication in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor's degree in journalism, Communications, English, or a related field.
- Full command of line editing, fact-checking, and copy editing (to AP Style).
- Strong editorial judgment and ability to provide and receive constructive feedback.
- Excellent writing and editing skills, with a keen eye for detail.
- Proficiency with analytics tools to monitor and assess content performance.
- Goal oriented, with a focus on meeting deadlines and upholding quality standards.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Familiarity with content management systems and tracking tools.
- Expertise in personal finance content is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with excellent growth opportunity; we pride ourselves in having a team that exudes leadership, high initiative, creativity and passion.
- Awesome medical, dental and vision plans with heavy employer contribution
- Paid maternity leave and paternity leave programs
- Paid vacation, sick days and holidays
- Company funding for outside classes and conferences to help you improve your skills
- Contribution to student loan debt payments after the first year of employment
- 401(k) -- employees can start contributing immediately. After the first year, GOBankingRates matches your contribution up to 4% of your salary
Here's a peek into our world at GOBankingRates -
- Our teams are working remotely 100% for the foreseeable future. We're in the digital media space, so we're mobile and flexible!
- *Option to work from an office (if you need to get away!)
- Tools & resources are available to keep our team connected across North America. (JIRA, Trello, Slack, Zoom and so much more!)
- To keep our community engaged and connected, virtual team building events are held weekly and monthly.
- For wellness and balance, weekly virtual fitness classes such as yoga are available.
- To care for the local communities that we're a part of across the U.S our team members host socially distanced philanthropic events every quarter.
- And most importantly, we've committed to consistent and transparent communication to help us all stay informed, engaged and to keep us on our path to success and #greatness.
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Seniority level
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Employment type
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Job function
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Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
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