Description
Do you thrive in a collaborative, friendly, fun and progressive environment? Do you love all things digital marketing? Are you ready to take on the next challenge in your marketing career? We have what you are looking for!
We’re Search Engine Journal. We have been covering the search industry and digital marketing world since 2003 with in-depth and actionable guides, tips, trends, and insights – plus breaking news and analysis from the Search Engine Journal team and hundreds of expert industry practitioners.We serve 3 million monthly pageviews, 1.7M visitors and half a million social followers.
Our Content Writers are an integral part of the Editorial team, enriching our readers’ lives and businesses with top-quality educational and informational digital marketing content. As a Content Writer with SEJ, you will work closely with our writers, editors, expert authors, and other team members on a variety of content formats throughout our publishing process.
If you have a passion for all things SEO, PPC and digital marketing, a great attitude, proven writing chops and the desire to work in an industry-leading 100% remote organization, we want to hear from you. Feel free to share samples of your work or portfolio of your published articles and references from previous clients or employers along with your application.
Skills and Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in content writing as part of a publishing house, agency, brand or media organization’s editorial team.
- Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of and experience writing about SEO, PPC, and digital marketing.
- Strong knowledge of AP style.
- Meticulous attention to detail and fact checking, with the ability to adhere to tight deadlines.
- A team player with the ability to multitask and excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
- Familiarity with project management and remote collaboration tools such as Slack, Google Drive, and Asana.
Preferred Competencies
- Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Marketing, or Communications
- SEO or digital marketing experience
- Experience working with content management systems, WordPress, etc.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Strong organizational skills to manage workflow, multitask, and meet deadlines.
- Research and write informational and how to articles, ebooks, whitepapers, reports, and other content as assigned (including ghostwriting).
- Use expertise with style guides and language syntax to avoid inconsistencies and errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation.
- Apply on-page SEO best practices as part of the content creation process.
- Write with attention to style, readability and adherence to editorial policies.
- Work with editors and other writers to rewrite text to improve clarity and readability.
- Must be comfortable researching and interviewing to source the most up to date, accurate information possible.
- Write captions for photos, meta descriptions, alt text, etc.
Why Work at SEJ?
- Full-Time Remote. You will be working from home in your pajamas, or whatever you want to wear.
- We manage by execution or goals. So long as you get a lot of work done, we’re happy campers.
- Complete Work/Life Balance. If you’re routinely working more than 45ish hours, you’re gonna get a friendly talking-to. We want you to be operating at 100% capacity, which means that you need to rest.
- You Can Be Yourself. You don’t have to put on a fake, professional face. You can just be yourself.
- Major Opportunities for Career Growth. We are not trying to just be a small business. We promote quickly once we identify talent. It doesn’t matter what your credentials are – it matters what you get done.
- Strongly Anti-BS. Anybody in the company can (and is expected to) tell the CEO when she is wrong. There are no bureaucratic or BS rules getting in the way of getting work done.
- No Micro-Management. Once you’re trained and have demonstrated you know your stuff, we are pretty hands-off. In fact, if you need external management to stay on-task and motivated, we probably aren’t the place for you.
- Supportive Environment. We don’t operate via intense stress or unreasonable top-down deadlines. Everyone wants you to be successful – internal politics are at a minimum here.
- No Toxic People Allowed. We try very hard to screen out mean people before they get in, but in case they slip through, we fire them quickly. Imagine never having to interact with toxic people at work – how nice would that be?
- We’ll Invest in Your Training. We want you and everyone to get better constantly. You’ll be learning new things all the time, and are strongly encouraged to invest time every day to learn new things, improve your system/work process, and just generally try to make your life easier.
Status: Full-Time | Salary: $45,000 – $55,000 | Location: Remote
Disclaimer
The above is intended to describe the general content of the requirements for the performance of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of essential functions, responsibilities or requirements.
How To Apply
If this sounds like the opportunity you have been searching for, we would love the opportunity to connect.
Learn more about SEJ at searchenginejournal.com