Senior Editor

Summary

Join Credible as a Senior Editor for Buy Side from WSJ, leveraging your personal finance expertise to elevate content quality and SEO strategy. You will manage an updates editor, assign and edit personal finance articles, and collaborate with writers and the WSJ team. This role requires at least four years of experience editing personal finance content and proven leadership skills. The ideal candidate is passionate about service journalism, detail-oriented, and eager to contribute to a dynamic startup environment. Credible offers a competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus, and various benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, and paid time off.

Requirements

• At least four years of experience editing personal finance content
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Meticulous attention to detail, organization and strong project management skills

Responsibilities

• Assign, update and edit personal finance articles
• Review partner content for quality, accuracy and consistency
• Manage an updates editor who will focus on personal finance content
• Optimize articles for SEO by strengthening methodology, adding visual elements and showcasing E-E-A-T
• Work closely with in-house and freelance writers to ensure quality content
• Help put together content briefs for writers based on topic ideas and SEO recommendations
• Coordinate promotion of Buy Side content with the WSJ editorial team
• Assist with social media and newsletter promotion of Buy Side content
• Assist our Director of Content with other content strategy tasks as needed
• Stay up to date on industry trends and continually expanding personal finance knowledge

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in mastering a personal finance vertical
• Experience managing a more junior coworker
• Bachelor’s degree in English, journalism, or a related field
• Experience with basic HTML and CSS
• Experience working within WordPress, Asana and Jira

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off