Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MediaJel is a marketing and advertising company specializing in cannabis SEO and digital marketing, delivering compliance-driven content that balances engagement, conversions, and technical SEO excellence. The Managing Editor will lead content operations and editorial quality across a multi-client SEO portfolio, manage freelance writers, oversee production workflows, and ensure content aligns with SEO, editorial, client, and regulatory standards. The role also supports AI-assisted content production, workflow development, quality assurance, and collaboration with technical SEO and client-facing teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day content operations across a diverse portfolio of clients in regulated and non-regulated industries
- Manage and mentor freelance writers, providing feedback that sharpens their SEO execution and editorial quality
- Collaborate with the technical SEO team to ensure content execution aligns with the broader search strategy
- Contribute to the development of content strategy, topic ideation, and quarterly production planning
- Shape and improve AI-assisted content workflows, from brief creation to editorial QA
- Participate in client-facing calls to align content strategy with broader SEO and marketing goals
- Pitch and implement workflow tools and process improvements that keep production running smoothly
- Managing day-to-day operations of the Content Department, including:
- Ensuring alignment across client-facing Roadmaps, Asana, and other project management interfaces to shepherd the content lifecycle from brief to publication
- Ensuring timely content deliverable submissions from freelancers and editing of all content to MediaJel's service standards and quarterly production cadence
- Carrying out Quality Assurance checks for all content uploads
- Providing writer support and feedback:
- Acting as the day-to-day contact for freelancer questions on assignments, due dates, and best practices
- Providing writers with regular feedback on their work to help them improve content quality and ensure their work aligns with current best practices and editorial standards
- Working with the Director of SEO to provide writers with quarterly, updated guidance on best practices for digital, SEO-friendly content writing
- Upholding compliance standards for regulated and non-regulated clients of MediaJel
- Checking that client guidelines and compliance for regulated industries are adhered to
- Ensuring that location pages, metadata, blogs, landing pages, and any other content created align with a client’s voice, tone, and strategic goals
- Collaborating with technical SEO teams to ensure content execution aligns with broader search strategy, including keyword deployment, content hierarchy, and optimization recommendations
- Manage all AI-assisted geolocated content production, including:
- Creating detailed, AI-friendly content briefs
- Supporting freelance writers who use MediaJel's AI-assisted workflows
- Editing all geolocated content to ensure it aligns with MediaJel's editorial and quality standards
- Support the Director of SEO in developing and improving AI-assisted workflows, including:
- Build and maintain infrastructure and resources that support AI-assisted workflows (e.g. knowledge base resources, brand guides, product or service details)
- Contribute to the ongoing iteration and development of these workflows and systems, including context engineering, tooling and process improvements
Skills
- Have 3-5 years of editorial or content management experience, with at least 2 in an SEO-focused role
- Have experience managing freelance writers or contract contributors
- Have experience working in an agency environment, managing multiple clients, and competing priorities simultaneously
- Are trained in the art and science of grammar
- Have a firm grasp of SEO best practices for content and can coach writers in the execution of MediaJel's standards
- Understand geolocated and local SEO tactics for content
- Are familiar with how AI is transforming the search landscape, from AI Overviews to evolving discovery patterns, and understand how the new landscape translates into content strategy
- Have experience editing AI-generated content and working within AI-assisted production workflows
- Thrive on organization, forward planning, and managing production workflows that operate on a quarterly cadence
- Have direct or transferable experience navigating content requirements for regulated industries
- Are well-versed in B2C and B2B content for audiences at various points of their conversion journey
- Have used SEMRush, Ahrefs, or another SaaS SEO tool, plus GSC and GA4, to improve content strategy and performance
- Are familiar with navigating various CMS platforms for content uploads and QA
- Are well-versed in project management software (Asana, in particular)
- Experience with cannabis, hemp, or dispensary content
- Experience editing science-focused content for laypersons and assessing peer-reviewed sources for relevance and rigor
- Familiarity with ecommerce content, including product descriptions and collection pages
- Exposure to B2B2C business models
- Background in ad tech, martech, or SaaS content
Benefits
- Remote work
- Full-Time Temporary-to-Hire Position
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