Strategic Content Editor (Contract-to-Hire)

USA (Remote)

$3K/mo – $5K/moSenior Level5+ years expContract

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the editorial quality gate and standards for strategic marketing content, ensuring briefs are sound, drafts align with intent, and the process scales with the team.

  • Review strategy at the briefing stage to catch misreads before drafts.
  • Edit for strategic alignment, persona fit, funnel-appropriate CTAs, and true search intent.
  • Build and formalize editing standards and QA with leadership buy-in to scale quality.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Review strategy before content exists: read briefs, keyword strategies, and funnel plans and pressure-test them.
  • Edit for strategic alignment: verify copy matches persona, CTA fits funnel stage, and satisfies the targeted search intent.
  • Create editing standards where they don’t exist: build fixes with leadership buy-in and team involvement.
  • Spot ranking opportunities the brief missed: read SERPs for featured snippets and keyword clusters.
  • Run quality control: ensure clarity, flow, tone, internal links, metadata, and formatting before content ships.
  • Give writers feedback that makes them better: direct, specific, actionable notes tied to strategic reasoning.

Requirements

  • 5+ years editing strategic marketing content (SEO content, landing pages, email, PPC assets) in an agency or similar fast-moving environment.

Preferred

  • 5+ years editing strategic marketing content (SEO content, landing pages, email, PPC assets) in an agency or similar fast-moving environment.
  • You can read an SEO strategy document and find its weak points. Keyword selection, intent mapping, funnel logic, content architecture.
  • Independent by default; able to make editorial calls during leave without a director to escalate.
  • Genuine team player; independent doesn’t mean lone wolf.
  • Direct and kind in the same sentence.
  • Desire for more responsibility and past unofficial leadership work like mentoring and process-building.

Benefits

  • Full-time conversion includes salary, benefits, PTO, and professional development budget.
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REGEX SEO

Regex SEO is a Houston-based Internet Marketing company, which was formed by a group of seasoned professionals with extensive experience in the digital marketing arena. We wanted to offer a no-nonsense, transparent approach to Internet Marketing, SEO services, and online marketing campaigns. Our experience ranges from SEO consulting, SEO engineering, web design, PPC (Pay per click / Google AdWords), Internet Marketing project management and Search Engine Optimization to database and software development.

Founded in 2016
Houston, Texas, USA
25 employees (15 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.2%
Direct
48.2%
Referral
12.8%
Social
5.4%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~25

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
10 (40% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1