Senior Content Author
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Senior Content Author responsible for leading and executing editorial workflows across digital platforms. Hands-on experience with Contently and collaboration with strategists and designers required.
Responsibilities:
- Operate as a subject matter expert in Contently, managing all aspects of content workflow: editorial calendars, brief creation, freelancer assignment, asset uploads, revisions, and approvals.
- Drive content consistency and editorial excellence across multiple digital formats (articles, emails, landing pages, guides, etc.).
- Collaborate with content strategists, SEO analysts, UX designers, and developers to ensure content is aligned with customer journeys and marketing objectives.
- Leverage Contently Analytics to track performance of published content, synthesize insights, and recommend improvements to editorial strategy.
- Maintain structured, scalable documentation: authoring guidelines, content standards, tone of voice, editorial SLAs, and process maps.
- Enforce brand governance, messaging consistency, and SEO best practices across all content deliverables.
- Troubleshoot content delivery issues, resolve formatting or workflow gaps, and escalate platform-level bugs when needed.
- Support onboarding and upskilling of freelance or in-house content contributors within the Contently environment.
- Monitor content pipeline health and proactively identify risks or delays to publishing timelines.
Requirements:
- B.S. in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years in digital content roles, including experience as a content author, editor, or strategist.
- Demonstrated professional use of Contently: content operations, editorial planning, platform workflows, and analytics.
- Experience with AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) authoring: page creation, component use, and content QA.
- Familiarity with additional CMS platforms such as WordPress, Sitecore, Contentful, Webflow or similar.
- Understanding of localization workflows and translation-ready content structures.
- Basic SEO and UX writing best practices.
- Experience managing freelance writers or external vendors.
- Familiarity with content governance models and taxonomy frameworks.
- Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS for troubleshooting formatting issues in CMS.
- Familiarity with localization, translation workflows, and multi-language content structures.
- Strong command of editorial workflows in content marketing or newsroom-style environments.
- Ability to synthesize marketing briefs and turn them into high-performing content deliverables.
- Skilled in writing and editing digital content with attention to SEO, readability, and audience engagement.
- Working knowledge of content analytics and reporting tools.
- Competence with editorial QA processes and governance tools (style guides, content scoring).
- Use of AI-assisted writing/editing tools (Grammarly, Jasper, Writer.com) in a professional context.
- Exposure to Agile content production methodologies (Kanban/Scrum).
- Proficiency with collaboration tools (Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, Confluence, etc.).
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Benefits:
- N/A
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