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Legal Editor - Employment Law

Chicago, IL · Remote

Remote Work 25 to 40 hour in a week. Active Bar Admission - State of IL Summary: Our client is ... content in accordance with Practical Law writing style. Requirements: At least six years ...

JM Consulting LLC

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Content Writer

Chicago, IL · Remote

$35K - $55K/yr

... in a remote environment. · Apply basic SEO principles when appropriate (keyword awareness ... Qualifications · Proven experience as a content writer or copywriter. · Ability to write engaging ...

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Content Writer

Chicago, IL · Remote

$35K - $55K/yr

... in a remote environment. · Apply basic SEO principles when appropriate (keyword awareness ... Qualifications · Proven experience as a content writer or copywriter. · Ability to write engaging ...

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YO AI Labs

AI Finance Expert - Remote

Chicago, IL · Remote

$100 - $200/hr

Remote Job Overview We are seeking experienced AI Finance Domain Experts to contribute their ... Content Review & Editing * Fact Checking * Data Interpretation * Data Annotation * Problem-Solving

RevenueWell

Senior SEO Content Manager

Chicago, IL · Remote

While SEO content remains your primary day-to-day focus, you'll also lend support on broader ... Meticulous Editor: Advanced proofreading skills and exceptional attention to detail. An online ...

RevenueWell

Senior SEO Content Manager

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

While SEO content remains your primary day-to-day focus, you'll also lend support on broader ... Meticulous Editor: Advanced proofreading skills and exceptional attention to detail. An online ...

YO AI Labs

Criminal Lawyer - Remote

Chicago, IL · Remote

$140 - $400/hr

Evaluate AI-generated legal content for accuracy, clarity, ethical considerations, and legal ... Legal Writing & Editing * Court Filings & Case Material Review * Legal Research & Summarization

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Remote Content Editors are professionals who review, revise, and improve written content for websites, blogs, social media, or other digital platforms while working from a location outside a traditional office. They ensure the content is clear, accurate, and engaging, and that it aligns with a brand's style and guidelines. Their responsibilities often include proofreading, fact-checking, editing for SEO, and collaborating with writers and other team members online. Working remotely allows them to manage their schedules flexibly and work with clients or companies worldwide.

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As a remote content editor, you work from home to develop, design, and implement content for a company. Your duties are to create, draft, proofread, and edit material before it goes for publication on a website. If the content is suitable, you can copy it and adjust it for different platforms. You also gather user feedback, analyze responses, and work to enhance what the organization produces. Your responsibilities require you to collaborate with graphic design and marketing departments. A remote content editor can either work for one company and manage things from home or be freelance and take on the jobs they want.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a remote content editor, and why are they important?

To excel as a Remote Content Editor, you need strong writing, grammar, and editing skills, often supported by a degree in English, journalism, or a related field. Familiarity with content management systems (CMS), editing tools like Grammarly or Hemingway, and SEO best practices is typically required. Attention to detail, time management, and effective communication are key soft skills that distinguish top editors in remote environments. These skills ensure high-quality, consistent content delivery and smooth collaboration across distributed teams.

What are some common challenges faced by remote content editors and how can they be addressed?

Remote Content Editors often encounter challenges such as coordinating effectively with distributed teams, managing multiple deadlines across various time zones, and maintaining consistency in content quality without in-person oversight. To address these challenges, it's important to establish clear communication channels, set realistic expectations for turnaround times, and utilize collaborative tools for feedback and project tracking. Regular virtual check-ins and detailed editorial guidelines can also help ensure alignment and maintain high editorial standards.

What is the difference between Remote Content Editor vs Remote Copywriter?

AspectRemote Content EditorRemote Copywriter
Primary RoleReviewing, editing, and refining content for clarity, accuracy, and styleCreating persuasive and engaging written content from scratch
Skills & CredentialsStrong editing, grammar, and proofreading skills; familiarity with style guidesExcellent writing, creativity, and marketing knowledge
Work EnvironmentTypically collaborates with writers and editors remotely within content teamsWorks independently or with marketing teams to produce original content remotely
Industry UsageCommon in publishing, media, and digital content companiesPrevalent in advertising, marketing, and digital agencies

Remote Content Editors focus on refining existing content, ensuring quality and consistency, while Remote Copywriters create original content aimed at engaging audiences. Both roles require strong writing skills but differ in their primary responsibilities and work processes.

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Senior Editor, The CMO Club

Black & White Zebra

Chicago, IL • Remote

$100K - $130K/yr

Full-time

Re-posted 26 days ago

Job description

About The CMO Club:

The CMO Club helps marketing leaders build AI-powered systems that drive growth, scale impact, and own revenue.

We provide peer-driven insights, practical frameworks, executive playbooks, and community-powered experiences focused on demand generation, AI-enabled marketing, brand and communications, marketing operations, customer marketing, and modern marketing execution.

Our audience includes CMOs, VPs of marketing, demand generation leaders, brand and communications leaders, marketing operations professionals, and senior marketing practitioners looking for practical insight, trustworthy guidance, and meaningful professional connection.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Editor to help build The CMO Club into a trusted, community-powered media brand for marketing leaders and senior marketing professionals.

This role is responsible for growing loyal, engaged marketing leadership audiences through authoritative, practitioner-led editorial experiences across articles, newsletters, social, video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and strategic partnerships.

This is not a traditional editing role focused only on publishing content. It is an audience growth and editorial leadership role centered on creating serious-fun, decision-support content that helps marketing leaders make better decisions, build demand, adopt AI-powered ways of working, scale marketing systems, and navigate the changing realities of modern marketing leadership.

You will help shape the voice, authority, growth, and audience experience of the brand.

Your work should increase subscriber growth, newsletter engagement, return audience behavior, topical authority, and trust with marketing leaders and senior marketing professionals.

Who You Are:

You understand how to create editorial brands that professionals actively trust, return to, and recommend.

You are deeply curious about how marketing leaders and senior marketing professionals operate, make strategic decisions, adopt AI, build demand, scale teams and systems, and navigate complexity.

You know how to turn practitioner insight into useful editorial experiences that feel credible, clear, visual, engaging, and worth sharing.

You are not just a writer or editor. You are a builder of audience systems, community loops, and repeat engagement.

You think beyond articles and understand that modern editorial engagement happens across newsletters, video, podcasts, social, community discussions, livestreams, events, partnerships, search, and AI discovery experiences.

You are comfortable experimenting with formats, workflows, packaging, distribution strategies, and audience experiences to improve performance over time.

You care about usefulness, clarity, audience trust, and measurable impact.

What You’ll Be Doing:

1. Build engaged, community-powered editorial experiences

You will create serious-fun, expert-driven editorial and audience experiences that grow subscribers, increase newsletter engagement, and build loyal engineering, AI, and technology leadership audiences.

  • Create, assign, edit, write, and publish editorial content across articles, newsletters, social, short-form video, narrative video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and community formats
  • Develop content informed by real practitioner insight, including interviews, contributor conversations, engineering communities, surveys, Q&As, and social listening
  • Create audience experiences focused on engineering leadership, AI adoption, scalability, platform reliability, developer productivity, infrastructure, security, and modern technology execution
  • Help program and support webinars, livestreams, roundtables, podcasts, and editorial event experiences
  • Repurpose editorial IP into newsletter blocks, social content, video clips, lead magnets, reports, and community assets
  • Ensure editorial output reflects the publication’s tone, usefulness, authority, and audience relevance
  • Continuously identify opportunities to increase audience participation, contribution, sharing, and return engagement

2. Create insight-led decision-support content that performs

You will create and improve content that helps engineering, AI, and technology leaders make better technical, operational, AI, and organizational decisions.

  • Assign, edit, write, optimize, and experiment with JTBD, workflow, systems, tools, infrastructure, AI, and practitioner-led content
  • Build content that helps technology leaders understand what to do, how to do it, and what tools, systems, workflows, or approaches can help
  • Improve SEO-driven and community-driven content with stronger practitioner insight, storytelling, visuals, structure, examples, CTAs, and internal journeys
  • Build topical authority around engineering leadership, AI implementation, infrastructure, developer workflows, security, scalability, and operational execution
  • Produce and improve decision-support formats such as tools/tech roundups, benchmark reports, State of AI reports, engineering playbooks, expert interviews, surveys, member exclusives, and lead magnets
  • Use Marfeel, GA, HubSpot, newsletter data, and audience performance signals to guide optimization and experimentation
  • Test headlines, hooks, formats, distribution strategies, CTAs, and conversion pathways to improve performance
  • Monitor performance across subscriber growth, newsletter clicks, AI visibility, topical authority, engagement, and discoverability
  • Share learnings, experiments, and repeatable editorial playbooks across the organization

3. Expand audience reach, relationships, and distribution

You will help grow The CMO Club through contributor relationships, strategic partnerships, distribution systems, and community engagement.

You will:

  • Identify, recruit, and manage engineering contributors, AI practitioners, technical SMEs, partners, and executive voices
  • Build contributor → content → audience → community growth loops
  • Act as a visible host and guardian of the brand across newsletters, events, podcasts, social, community spaces, and contributor relationships
  • Package and distribute content across newsletter, social, search, Discover, podcast, video, community, partner, and digital PR channels
  • Collaborate on co-created reports, research, surveys, multimedia initiatives, and strategic partnerships
  • Represent the brand through events, panels, podcasts, conferences, and external opportunities when useful
  • Build and maintain reusable insight libraries containing interviews, quotes, patterns, transcripts, and community intelligence
  • Track relationship-building and distribution performance based on subscriber growth, newsletter engagement, RFV, authority signals, and audience quality
 
How Your Success Will Be Measured:

Your success will be measured through:

  • Growth in ICP subscriber acquisition
  • Increased newsletter clicks and audience engagement
  • Growth in returning audience behavior and repeat visits
  • Increased authority signals, search visibility, and AI discovery presence
  • Performance of decision-support and practitioner-led content
  • Audience participation and contributor engagement
  • Growth in non-organic and community-driven traffic
  • Successful execution of multimedia, event, and partnership initiatives
  • Clear evidence that audiences trust, share, and repeatedly engage with the brand
 
Your Skillset Includes:
  • Strong editorial judgment and audience instincts
  • Experience creating B2B, practitioner-led, or professional editorial content
  • Strong interviewing and synthesis skills
  • Ability to turn complex technical workflows and operational topics into useful, engaging editorial experiences
  • Experience growing newsletter engagement, subscriber audiences, or community participation
  • Experience across multimedia formats including newsletters, social, video, podcasts, webinars, or events
  • Comfort using analytics and audience signals to guide experimentation and optimization
  • Experience collaborating with contributors, SMEs, and strategic partners
  • Understanding of SEO, distribution strategy, audience engagement, and AI discovery trends
  • Strong organizational and communication skills
  • Ability to operate with speed, experimentation discipline, and audience empathy
 
Nice to Haves:
  • Experience covering marketing leadership, demand generation, brand, martech, SaaS, marketing operations, or AI-powered marketing
  • Experience creating benchmark reports, surveys, or insight-led content
  • Experience hosting or participating in podcasts, webinars, livestreams, or editorial events
  • Familiarity with modern marketing and martech tooling ecosystems
  • Experience building community-powered editorial systems or contributor networks
 
Why This Role Matters:

The CMO Club exists to help marketing leaders make better decisions in an increasingly complex, AI-driven marketing environment.

This role helps turn the brand into more than a publication. It helps make The CMO Club a trusted decision-support destination and community-powered media engine for modern marketing leadership.

Under your ownership, the brand should become something audiences actively rely on, contribute to, share, and return to repeatedly.

Salary Statement:
This full-time position is available as a remote role that offers an annual base salary in the range of $100,000 to $130,000 USD. The range is a guide for the expected skills, knowledge, and experience for new hires based in USA only. Seniority level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. This means ranges will vary for candidates based outside of USA and/or at different seniority levels. In addition to annual salary, full-time employees are eligible for a discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.

About Us:
We’re a rapidly growing, independent media tech company headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Since 2012, our portfolio of influential digital publications has been helping millions of people succeed at work.

Our brands cover thought leadership for executives in project management, people management, product management, tech, marketing and many others - with the goal of connecting people with knowledge, skills and tools they need to succeed professionally in the age of AI.

We got our start in 2011 as The Digital Project Manager blog, founded by our CEO Ben Aston. Since then, we’ve grown into an international team of 70+ creators, strategists, and innovators with a portfolio of more than 15 online publications. We enjoy an impact-driven environment that combines the agility of a startup with the creativity of an agency and the diversity of a global company.

We’ve previously ranked #30 in The Globe and Mail’s Fastest Growing Companylist as well as Deloitte'sFast 50 program, received a CMI award for Best Digital Publication for The Digital Project Manager—and we’re listed in both Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers, and Best Employers in BC!

All of this growth is driven by our commitment to our mission: In a world of evolving skills, practices, and technology, we’re creating a playbook for the future of work and empowering communities to create it with us.

Want to learn more? Watch this video to learn why the team love working at BWZ!

Diversity Equity and Inclusion: 
Black and White Zebra is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital status, military or veteran’s status (including protected veterans, as may be required by federal law), sexual orientation or any other category protected by law. We celebrate all backgrounds and attributes that continue to help make our team impactful, iterative, adaptable, and fun!

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