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Strategic Content Editor (Contract-to-Hire)

New York, NY, United States · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 13 days ago

SEOLeadershipMentoring

About the role

The situation, honestly Our content department head is going on a planned leave in the near future.
Before that happens, we need a senior editor in place who can hold the line on strategy and quality while she's out, then keep raising the bar when she's back.
This starts as a contract role with a clear path to a full-time hire based on performance.

Responsibilities

You'll be collaborating daily with writers, strategists, and PMs, and your feedback style needs to build trust fast.
mentoring writers, building processes nobody asked for, being the person the team actually goes to.

Requirements

You work independently by default.

Benefits

Full-time conversion includes salary, benefits, PTO, and professional development budget.
You'll be learning team leadership directly from the content director, with real responsibility from week one rather than a title and a waiting period.
During the leave period, you'll be making editorial calls without a director to escalate to.
Writers should leave your edits better at their jobs, not deflated.

Company info

RGX is a digital marketing agency built for home service businesses: HVAC, pest control, plumbing, electrical, and the trades that keep homes running.
Our clients are not hobby businesses.
They're doing $1.5M+ in annual revenue, investing in growth.
We help serious service businesses get clearer about what they offer, sharper about who they serve, and more direct about why a customer should choose them.
Strategy first.
Every sentence accountable to the business it serves.
What you'll actually do Review strategy before content exists.
You'll read content briefs, keyword strategies, and funnel plans before writing starts, and pressure-test them.
If the targeting is off, the search intent is misread, or the funnel logic doesn't hold, you catch it at the brief stage, not the draft stage.
Edit for strategic alignment.
Every draft gets checked against the strategy it was written to serve.
You'll verify the copy matches the persona, the CTA fits the funnel stage, and the content actually satisfies the search intent we're targeting.
Create editing standards where they don't exist.
If you notice a recurring writing problem, a missing tone of voice guide, or a gap in our editorial process, you build the fix.
You don't wait to be asked, and you don't file it as someone else's problem.
You do pause long enough to get leadership and team buy-in, because a standard only works if the people using it helped shape it.
Fix what's broken, and fix it with the team rather than around them.
Spot ranking opportunities the brief missed.
You read SERPs, not just drafts.
If a piece could capture a featured snippet with a structural change, or a related keyword cluster is sitting there unclaimed, you flag it and adjust.
Run quality control.
You're the last set of eyes before content ships.
Clarity, flow, tone, accuracy, brand voice, and the unglamorous stuff like internal links, metadata, and formatting.
You'll help formalize our QA process so quality doesn't depend on any one person being in the room.
Give writers feedback that makes them better.
Direct, specific, actionable notes that explain the strategic reasoning, not just the correction.
Our writers are good.
Your job is to make them sharper.
Where this goes This role exists because our content department is growing faster than one director can quality-control.
The interim coverage is the immediate need.

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