Search Engine Journal is hiring an executive editor.
We need a data-driven, curious and supportive leader with extensive experience managing newsrooms and content teams.
Someone who knows our marketing world inside out. A big-picture thinker who will expand and develop our editorial and content teams to keep up with our growing sales over the years.
In other words, someone who can take SEJ and our editorial team to the next level.
Are you the unicorn we’re looking for?
What is the daily life like?
If you’ve run a newsroom, managed a content team, worked with advertisers, and produced a digital-only publication, the specifics are pretty standard.
It’s filling out editorial calendars, tweaking workflows, onboarding new writers or editors, working with sales and marketing to update leadership with progress and development.
What is unique about the job and the company?
We are growing!
Over the past few years, our revenue has grown 50-100%…year-over-year. Our team has more than doubled in 2 years. We are hiring!
our people.
They are my favorite. They care. They have caring managers. We do our best to find them; we are constantly evolving our talent development and benefits programs, staying connected and aligned with career goals.
We are 100% remote only.
Someone said to me recently, “The office is a blunt tool for collaboration and accountability.”
We built the company from the ground up as a globally distributed workforce.
Without a headquarters or office, we’ve had 13 years to perfect best practices for communicating, building culture, and building trust among team members who rarely meet.
We love asynchronous operations, communication and work.
Like WordPress’ Matt Mullenweg, we believe in asynchronous work environments Foster autonomy (FWIW, I can attest that we are a “level 3 or 4”).
Our people work local hours and observe local holidays. We are careful about scheduling meetings, and when we do, we try to make them as purposeful and efficient as possible.
We manage by goals.
When you have dozens of people in 6 countries and 7 time zones, you really can’t look back at them to ensure productivity.
We have developed into a team that thrives on autonomy and loves experimenting and learning.
So, do you all need to be successful here anyway?
- Highly collaborative way of working.
- Black Belt Communication Skills: You can choose from Slack, Loom, Email, Google Meet, Google Docs, or Smoke Signals… depending on what works best for the situation at hand.
- Are you from the U.S. (While our team is global, we are more US-focused.)
- You are a lifelong learner with a passion for testing and learning.
- Extensive experience in developing and curating content relevant to digital marketers.
- Extensive experience in operating editorial teams, newsrooms.
- Manage ambiguity. Operate effectively even when things are uncertain or the way forward is unclear.
- Organization savvy. Successfully maneuver through policies, processes, and organizational dynamics related to people.
- Anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders.
