Senior Editorial Lead

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Skale Full time

**About Skale**

At Skale our mission is simple: help SaaS brands make SEO the #1 revenue-driving channel. We're a passionate performance SEO agency, with the goal to help SaaS companies grow their SEO efforts into a recognisable source of new business.

We're scaling fast and need talented people like you to join the team. Interested in this role? Then please keep reading.

**What you´ll be doing**:

- Ensure articles are stand-out, avoiding simply regurgitating other material online into “hot dog content”.
- Ensure articles are on-brand according to client brand guidelines and tone of voice guidelines.
- Research, edit, re-edit, and polish around 12 articles per month for our B2B SaaS clients
- Receive comprehensive SEO content briefs from our Content SEO team to guide the content creation process to ensure its on-point for SEO.
- Build out and manage processes for the Editorial Team to ensure high-quality output which is on-brand, expert-led, and drives revenue for our SaaS clients.
- Build out the editorial team from scratch hiring in editors to your team Keep them on track with weekly team stand ups, 1-1s, performance reviews, etc.
- Collaborate closely with our other SEO teams.

**About you**:

- You are a skilled editor and have worked in B2B content for several years. You have a track record of producing and editing work that builds audiences and fills pipelines.
- You’ve led a team of editors before for at least 2 years.
- You are someone who “gets” content, the role it plays in a go to market motion, and understands how to connect content to the buyer and the product.
- You are familiar with SEO fundamentals and basics.
- You can quickly grasp B2B topics.
- You've owned internal processes before, have documented those processes, and have trained new hires on how to execute on those processes using that documentation and 1:1 coaching.
- You are a skilled editor who writes clear, concise, and easy-to-understand copy. Your grammar is nearly perfect and you avoid using the passive voice.
- You have strong project and time management skills.

**What we offer**:

- ️ Remote, flexible & async working. This is a full-time position.
- 36 days paid annual leave
- €150 euros monthly wellbeing budget (e.g. spend on co-work, gym, spa session, healthy food)
- Oliva mental health subscription - access to the employee wellbeing platform
- Regular online team buildings
- A strong culture of innovation & learning - access to various courses
- €500 set-up budget to enhance your workspace
- We have partnered with Regreener as part of our CSR strategy - it feels good to give something back


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