Strategic Content Editor (Contract-to-Hire)

USA (Remote)

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

Posted 2 months ago

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)

Salaries

Posted range

$3K/mo – $5K/mo

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Marketing Team

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

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