Hiring: Managing Editor for Reel Unlimited

Reel Unlimited is the leading design and copywriting subscription-based service for startups and small businesses. Hundreds of businesses worldwide rely on our platform to get graphic design, video design, UX/UI design, NFT design, and content writing tasks done for a flat monthly fee. Check us out at www.reelunlimited.com.

About the role
A Reel Unlimited Managing Editor supervises and coordinates a team of freelance writers to ensure our clients get high-quality content on time. The Managing Editor should have experience hiring and managing freelance writers, creating content calendars for clients, fact-checking and editing content, and editing for publication style.

The Managing Editor is responsible for maintaining strict quality and style standards, managing assignments, and coordinating communication between the clients and writers. The Managing Editor controls the quality of content, revisions requests, and changes writers when required.

That position's success primarily depends on the quality of the content delivered. The position is a full-time job and can be performed remotely.

Managing Editor tasks include

1. Create content calendars and style guides for our clients and, or help them generate new content ideas.
2. Assign and dispatch content tasks to writers based on their skills, availability, and relation with clients. Also, assign tasks to designers working on our client's content visuals like blog covers.
3. Ensure writers meet deadlines and respect turnaround time.
4. Perform content quality and safety checks to ensure every content shared with clients maintains the strict quality standard imposed, including

• Proofread via a thorough grammar, punctuation, and spelling check. Improve readability, clarity, concision, and word choice where appropriate, and check at references and other document elements to follow our client's chosen style guide.
• Editing content according to our client style guide, including basic fact-checking, rewriting passages for clarity and concision, editing for tone or voice, and restructuring text.
• Perform the Formatting of our client's documents to make them look great, including creating cover pages, adding content pages or lists of figures, label charts, tables and images, numbers, and format headers, and footers, titles, subtitles, and other text.

5. Detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.
6. Verify facts, dates, and statistics using standard reference sources provided by writers on their tasks.
7. Onboard new clients and assist them with all processes of their journey with us, including helping them with content calendar creation, tasks creation, tasks status, content revision, payments, orders status, and more via our internal communication dashboard, live chat, and Slack.
8. Onboard new writers and help them get accurate information about our rules and process.
9. Create new rules and policies to offer a better experience to our clients.

Tools frequently used:
Slack, Intercom, Stripe, Grammarly, Copyspace, Notion, Reel web app, Google workspace.