Website Content Editor

District of Columbia, USA (On-site)

$55K/yr – $70K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive hands-on website management and content strategy for a design firm's digital presence.

  • Own daily updates and performance tracking for key campaigns
  • Must-have: WordPress + Adobe Creative Cloud skills with a solid portfolio
  • Standout: Cross-functional collaboration with design, marketing, and PR teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Daily strategic oversight and tactical hands-on updating of our website
  • Ensure excellence in visual and editorial quality, as well as user experience
  • Manage projects by developing clear schedules, communicating deadlines to team members, and ensuring the timely execution of strategic (big picture) and tactical (detailed) deliverables
  • Track and analyze performance of web content, with a particular emphasis on major brand-building or promotional campaigns
  • Swiftly identify, troubleshoot, and solve bugs/technical issues that arise
  • Collaborate with the firm’s design leadership to present our design service offerings, project case studies, and talent on our website in the most impactful way
  • Collaborate with the firm’s marketing and business development leadership to understand our firm’s key pursuits and plan visually impactful, relevant content strategies to support them
  • Collaborate with the firm’s Social Media Editor and Public Relations Editor to ensure continuity between web content and promotional efforts
  • Serve as a liaison between our marketing and technology teams, translating business objectives into tangible outputs that web developers can implement
  • Assist in the creative ideation, build-out, testing, and launch of new digital communication platforms, features, and strategies (as needed)

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher
  • 3 – 5 years of experience in a design firm, media company, or related field
  • Excellent written and visual communication skills
  • Proficiency in WordPress, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Microsoft Office
  • Must be able to show previous work, including written pieces and web layouts

Preferred

  • Strong graphic design skills
  • A basic understanding of web development and UX best practices
  • Experience in UX Design and Figma prototyping
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Perkins&Will

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Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place. That’s why clients and community members on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about Living Design, a philosophy that guides our work and emphasizes poetics and beauty; conceptual clarity; research and innovation; technology and tectonics; community and inclusion; resilience and regeneration; and health and well-being. Our team of over 2,500 professionals in 30 studios worldwide provides interdisciplinary services in architecture, interior design, branded environments, urban design, landscape architecture, and more. Our partners include Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects; Portland; Nelson\Nygaard; and Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR). We’re also part of the Sidara Collaborative, a global network of leading designers, engineers, planners, and consultants.

Founded in 1935
Chicago, Illinois, USA
2.9K employees (1,632 in marketing)
80% recommend to a friend
92% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
169.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.3%
Direct
47.7%
Referral
6%
Social
2.1%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.9K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
137 (5% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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