Senior Content Editor

USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 14 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Owns Avalara's editorial standards and end-to-end content quality, guiding editorial leadership, review, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure brand voice, SEO optimization, and compliant messaging across channels.

  • Oversee editorial guidelines and AI content systems
  • Lead content revisions and optimization across email, web, blogs, and datasheets
  • Coordinate with marketing, product, legal, and design for approvals and compliance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Editorial Leadership and Standards
  • - Support the editorial team in efforts to refine and improve Avalara's editorial guidelines and processes
  • - Be a subject matter expert on Avalara voice, tone, and style — mentoring new employees and inspiring the broader Content Strategy team
  • - Oversee the team's AI-powered content systems to ensure all AI-generated output meets brand standards and reflects core messaging.
  • Content Review & Optimization
  • - Provide revisions to marketing assets published by Avalara, including copyediting, accuracy checks, and voice/style edits
  • - Ensure assets are optimized for each medium of distribution — including email (template guidelines), web (metadata and SEO), newsletters, blogs, data sheets, and more
  • - Edit and improve materials written by internal and third-party resources
  • - Work with internal design teams and external designers (contract, freelance, and agencies) to ensure quality finished products
  • Project & Stakeholder Management

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Arts degree, or comparable experience
  • Minimum 8 years of editing experience
  • Experience proofreading and ensuring adherence to style and voice guides
  • Experience producing and editing content for the web, including SEO optimization
  • Experience in a multi-language publishing environment, including globalization for translation
  • Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere)
  • Working knowledge of project management tools (Jira or Workfront)
  • Experience with team collaboration and planning tools (Slack, Miro, Monday.com )

Benefits

  • Total Rewards
  • Health & Wellness
  • Inclusive culture and diversity Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
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Avalara

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Avalara is the agentic tax and compliance leader. For more than two decades, Avalara has developed one of the most expansive libraries of tax content and integrations in the industry, supporting over 43,000 businesses and government entities across more than 75 countries. The company's purpose-built AI agents automate end-to-end compliance processes with greater precision, from tax calculations and return filings to exemption certificate management and beyond. For more information, visit Avalara.com.

Founded in 2004
Durham, North Carolina, USA
5.8K employees (240 in marketing)
60% recommend to a friend
68% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$962.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.7%
Direct
55%
Referral
5.3%
Social
0.6%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
187 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
16 years
Median Tenure
5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
13

Funding

Total Funding
$841M
Last Raise
$500M
Private Equity, 4 months ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2025
    Private Equity • $500M
  • Jan 2023
    Private Equity
  • Oct 2022
    Post IPO Debt • $38.6K

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