Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SEO Design Chicago is seeking a Contract SEO Content Manager to own the end-to-end content pipeline across client accounts. The role is responsible for research, editorial planning, content production and editing, on-page SEO, WordPress publishing, performance reporting, client communication, and process improvement.
Responsibilities
- Own the editorial calendar across all client accounts and hit a monthly publishing target
- Conduct keyword and topic research; map each piece to search intent and a target page
- Develop content topic recommendations and present them to clients for approval
- Write briefs covering target keyword, angle, structure, internal link targets, and length
- Participate in onboarding meetings with new clients to understand their business, audience, and voice
- Fact-check claims, statistics, and citations; verify that every outbound link resolves and is credible
- Match each client's voice and enforce a house style guide
- Final proofread for grammar, formatting consistency, and no placeholder text shipped
- Title tags, meta descriptions, heading hierarchy, image alt text
- Internal linking into money pages and between related posts
- Keyword usage that reads naturally rather than stuffed
- Identify existing posts worth refreshing and re-optimize them for current intent and rankings
- Format and publish in WordPress: featured images, categories, scheduling
- QA every live post on desktop and mobile before it is called done
- Track content performance in Google Search Console and GA4
- Report monthly to clients on rankings, traffic, and what the content is producing
- Feed those results back into the following month's topic planning
- Maintain the style guide, brief templates, and production documentation
- Improve throughput and quality over time, and document the workflow so it survives turnover
Skills
- Job Location: 1. United States
- • Demonstrated professional content experience, preferably at an agency or on an in-house content team
- • Practical keyword research skills and fluency with a research platform such as Semrush, Ahrefs, or comparable
- • Working knowledge of on-page SEO sufficient to execute it confidently
- • Comfort reading performance data and adjusting a content plan based on it
- • Client-facing communication skills. You will be in onboarding meetings and reporting conversations representing our agency
- • Strong self-editing and proofreading. You are the only set of eyes on this work before it publishes
- • Rigorous fact-checking discipline. Published inaccuracies under a client's name are a serious matter, and this role is the last line of defense against them
- • Proficiency in WordPress
- • Proven ability to work at production volume without quality degradation
- • Comfort operating independently against a calendar and a target, with minimal supervision
- You should be proficient in using them
- Job Types: Part-time, Contract
- Work Location: Remote
Benefits
- Flexible schedule
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