Location: International, Anywhere; 100% Remote
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 Copy Editors are an integral part of the Editorial team, approaching each piece of content with a sharp eye to editorial best practices and ensuring the best possible experience for readers. As a Copyeditor 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.
Skills and Qualifications
- 3+ Years of experience
- Strong knowledge of AP style
- Strong editing skills with the ability to meet tight deadlines
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- A team player with the ability to multitask
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
Preferred Competencies
- Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Marketing, or Communications
- SEO or digital marketing experience
- Experience working with content management systems, WordPress, Google Suite, MS Office, etc.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Strong organizational skills to manage workflow, multitask, take on new projects, and meet deadlines.
- Copy edit/proofread all features and news articles
- Use expertise with style guides and language syntax to fix inconsistencies and errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Fact-checking information, such as names, dates, and statistics
- Check text for style, readability, and adherence to editorial policies
- Work with the editors and writers to rewrite text to improve clarity and readability
- Focus on both the details and the big picture — fixing the smallest of errors that have been overlooked while respecting the overall theme and intent of the content
- Provide direction and feedback to writers to ensure final content is aligned with SEJ style and mission
- Ensure all formatting is correct in articles for the print edition and website
- Write captions for photos
- Contribute to completing additional ad hoc tasks for weekly issues and special editions
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 people to be the best culture fit for our team. Imagine working with people who want to see you succeed instead of tearing you down – 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: $40,000 – $50,000 | 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