Senior Editor - Marketing

The Opportunity

Shorthand exists to make it easy for anyone to create amazing web layouts for anything that can be published anywhere. We’ve begun our journey by creating an easy-to-use platform for one of the most creatively and technically demanding use cases on the web — immersive feature stories — and we’re proud to count many of the world’s best known and most discerning publishers, brands, not-for-profits, and universities as loyal customers. Now we’re looking to bring the magic of Shorthand to a range of other use cases. 

Shorthand is a fast-growing, investor-backed company with customers on every continent (except Antarctica!), and there’s never been a more exciting time to join our band of geeks with art and heart.

This is an opportunity for an excellent writer and editor to help scale our content engine at Shorthand.

The Role

As a Senior Editor, you’ll be responsible for managing our content process, from ideation and brief-writing to editing and publishing content produced by our contributors, freelancers, and partners. We’ll count on you to ensure all the content we publish is of the highest quality.

Part of this role will involve producing SEO-optimised content, but that won’t be your main focus. For the most part, you’ll be maintaining — and, ideally, lifting — Shorthand’s editorial standards, helping to build our reputation for excellence in our target markets. We want you to help create great content for people, not just Google. 

The role comes with a high level of responsibility and autonomy, and you’ll be expected to make it your own. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an ambitious but down-to-earth team that is making an outsized positive impact in the world

Core Responsibilities

• Help manage our busy content calendar for our longform content, newsletters, podcasts, and videos.

• Work with freelancers, contributors, and partners to produce world-beating educational content for our audience.

• Assist with website copywriting, social media, and community engagement as needed.

• Track and report on the performance of our content.

• Use data to boost your creativity, pushing the boundaries of storytelling and finding ways to capture the attention of your audience.

• Become expert in the use of Shorthand (if not already)

• Collaborate with colleagues in the product, growth, and marketing, and success teams to help our wider team produce amazing content

• Contribute to the ongoing development of our content strategy

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in English, journalism, communications, marketing or a related field, plus relevant work experience.

• A demonstrated track record of writing and editing longform content for humans.

• A passion for visual communication and storytelling on the web.

• A passion for writing. You know a hyphen from an em-dash, and have an opinion about the Oxford comma (even if it’s not the right one).

• An interest in tech and experience with communicating technical ideas in accessible terms.

• Experience collaborating with diverse, geographically-dispersed teams.

• Experience in B2B SaaS is a plus.

Personal qualities we value

• You are whip smart, as demonstrated by career achievements and/or school/university results.

• You are enormously curious and willing to learn.

• You have exceptional attention to detail.

• You love managing a process.

• You are interested in design and visual communication.

• You are collaborative.

• You gain deep satisfaction from helping others reach their goals.

• You are a proactive self-starter, who does not need to be told what to do and will be resourceful in order to find solutions to any challenge.

• You thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment, and possess a high level of intellectual curiosity.

• You are intrinsically motivated, deriving happiness from a job well done.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Competitive salary.

• Flexible hours.

• Freedom to own and grow the role you occupy.

• Opportunity to work in a small, high growth SaaS company where your voice will be heard.

• Fully remote working, with allowance for co-working space if required.

• Allowance for setting up your home office.

• Health and Wellness fund to support a healthy lifestyle.