Editorial Lead (Remote Canada)

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Requirements:

• 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.

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