Managing Editor – Contract

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the creation and updating of local buyers guides.

• Allocate articles to editors and monitor their progress until publication.

• Assess editors' submissions for precision, completeness, and compliance with editorial guidelines.

• Provide clear, actionable feedback and pinpoint recurring quality challenges throughout the program.

• Ensure production flows smoothly amidst a high volume of tasks and deadlines.

• Conduct research, assess, and incorporate relevant local businesses into buyers guides.

• Confirm service regions, locations, services provided, and business status.

• Verify local costs, licensing, permitting requirements, and regulations.

• Assess the quality of sources and guarantee that factual assertions are adequately substantiated.

• Identify unsupported claims, inconsistencies, outdated data, and factual inaccuracies.

• Perform final quality assurance on links, formatting, company details, and local accuracy.

• Detect issues with source data, research methods, or production workflows.

• Clearly document problems to facilitate corrections and prevent recurrence in future work.

• Spot opportunities to enhance value through more robust local insights, improved utilization of consumer review data, and the introduction of useful new sections.

• Seek out content voids and areas where additional research could enhance a guide's usefulness.

• Assist in refining documentation, processes, and editorial standards as the program evolves.

• Troubleshoot and enhance content production tools and workflows.

• Identify opportunities for improving accuracy, consistency, and efficiency.

• Collaborate with Content, SEO, data, and engineering teams when broader support is necessary.

• Propose process modifications based on patterns identified throughout the program.

• Maintain a steady flow of completed assignments.

• Identify and address quality issues prior to publication.

• Deliver comprehensive, well-sourced research.

• Adhere to established editorial and quality assurance standards.

• Clearly document recurring issues along with suggested solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in editorial, content operations, or a related domain, including experience in editing or managing writers or editors.

• Exceptional attention to detail and the capability to identify patterns across extensive content volumes.

• Strong organizational and project management abilities across various assignments, individuals, and deadlines.

• Thorough research, sourcing, and fact-checking competencies.

• Sound editorial judgment with the ability to differentiate reliable information from weak or unsupported claims.

• Proficiency in spreadsheets and structured data.

• Comfort with learning and utilizing modern content, research, and automation tools.

• Ability to adhere to a detailed process while recognizing when alterations to that process are necessary.

• Clear written communication skills, especially when providing editorial feedback.

• A keen interest in how structured content can be made more beneficial for consumers.

• Bonus: Experience with programmatic SEO or local SEO.

• Bonus: Background in service journalism or consumer guides.

• Bonus: Experience in building or troubleshooting editorial workflows using tools like AirOps, Airtable, or similar platforms.

• Bonus: Experience researching local businesses, licensing, or government regulations.

• Bonus: Experience with company review data or large datasets.

• Bonus: Familiarity with Ahrefs or Google Search Console.

• Bonus: Basic experience with automation, APIs, no-code tools, or scripting.

🏝️ Benefits

• This is a contract position and, as such, is not eligible for company-sponsored benefits.