Directive · 8 hours ago

Editorial Lead (Future Opening) - US

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Mentor and lead writers across our team to improve and scale their content and delegating and distributing workload to ensure content meets publishing timing and SLAs

Review and edit content from contributors to ensure proper brand voice, grammar, format, styling, and alignment with established content best practices

Maintain, implement and update Directive content best practices and ensure that the standards are being met for every piece of content delivered to clients

Demand quality and enforce our rigorous editorial standards day in and out.

Be responsible for editing multiple pieces of content daily, from short-turnaround pieces to longer-term thought-leadership pieces

Support multiple stakeholders on the product marketing teams to publish relevant content that includes news, up-and-coming features, events, and more; And answer ad hoc questions relating to upcoming content planning, blogging best practices, process, SLAs, and reporting

Support curation, planning, and editing of special content packages like ebooks, toolkits and resource guides

Contribute editing support across multiple formats, working with our audio and video teams on multimedia storytelling

Shape our content with great perspectives and sharp angles, while aligning to client’s tone+voice guidelines, product positioning documents and persona ICP maps

Organize, schedule, and facilitate editorial meetings with stakeholders / clients and strategists to ensure high-quality content is delivered to clients, and delivering constructive feedback from clients back to our writers

Qualification

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Editorial leadershipSharp editing skillsB2B tech knowledgeContent best practicesFreelance writer managementClient-facing confidenceCollaborative skillsTechnical writing

Required

5+ years of editorial leadership experience and experience managing a team of freelance writers either for a client, product or major publication

Sharp editing skills and the ability to know how to make every piece of content great

Deeply organized, but ready to blow up their plans to meet the chaos of quick client turnaround needs and deadlines

Passionate about B2B tech SaaS industry, specifically cybersecurity, fintech, etc. with experience in these spaces

Able to move fast while still delivering great work and upholding our editorial rigor

Excited to work with freelancers and in-house workers, alike, to bring in new voices (a great existing network is a major perk)

Extremely collaborative – you’ll be working with writers with varying levels of expertise, strategy team members and a variety of client POCs from growth engagement teams, product marketing teams, and C-Level executives at times

Confidence in client-facing situations where you’ll need to work collaboratively to review content feedback and use that input to improve the content and update internal writing documentation for improved writing and workflows