We’re looking for a razor-sharp Senior Content Editor to join our Marketing team on a hybrid basis in Kings Cross, London.
As Senior Content Editor, you’ll oversee all editorial content published on cinch.co.uk by our team of writers: motoring guides, car reviews, Top 10s, news stories and more.
You’ll likely have a digital journalism/editorial background – able to spot a typo a mile off and a proud member of the grammar police. You’ll also be familiar with editorial SEO best practices, ideally with time spent ‘on the tools’ doing keyword research, planning and/or brief-writing.
If this gets your engine firing, we’d love to hear from you.
Key responsibilities
- Editing long-form motoring content, including proof-reading and feeding back to writers
- Making evidenced-based decisions on content production plans and priorities
- Coaching writers in how to write more impactful copy
- Ownership of the cinch style guide and guardian of how cinch’s tone of voice is used editorially
- Responsibility for ensuring legal compliance of all editorial content
- Editing press releases, landing pages and other copy as required
- Ad-hoc short-form copywriting for emails and social media
- Ad-hoc SEO keyword planning and guidance
Necessary skills and experience
- Experience in similar role(s) for consumer-facing brand(s)
- Exceptional editorial skills – grammar, spelling, sentence structure, etc.
- Working understanding of on-page SEO best-practices (e.g. metadata, internal linking)
- Understanding of legal publishing guidelines
- Strong copywriting skills
- Highly organised and process-driven
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Nice-to-haves
- Interest in motoring and the automotive industry
- Awareness of content design best practices
- Analytical thinker – able to interrogate performance data to make evidence-based decisions
- Experience working with Product teams to improve the presentation of digital content
- Brief writing for, and editing of, SEO long-form content
If you're looking for a career path that has great teamwork, training, rewards, long-term scope and is going places – apply now!
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