GOBankingRates™ is unique in the digital marketing and media industry - we combine marketing, digital, content and fintech. Our performance based approach increases brand awareness and generates targeted audience engagement on our internal web properties and partner sites.
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What’s Interesting About This Role?
We are seeking a highly skilled Financial Writer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of writing high-quality financial content that is optimized for search engines. This role requires a detail-oriented individual with a strong understanding of SEO, content strategy, and the ability to analyze and act on data from analytics tools. The Senior Financial Writer will be responsible for producing a high volume of content, promoting it through various channels, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure it grows our audience.
How Will You Make an Impact?
- Increase search rankings and traffic of GOBankingRates content via SEO best practices.
- Write an average of 10-20 pieces of top-tier financial content per week that caters to high-intent audiences by leveraging your knowledge of best practices in SEO, content optimization, and content strategy.
- Monitor and gather actionable takeaways from analytics tools to make editorial decisions.
- Work with the outreach team to ensure excellent content is promoted by sources, experts, and others with clear expertise and authority.
- Create posts in the content management system and update our tracking system with relevant information.
- Work with SEO specialists to ensure your content is properly optimized and meets user intent.
- Quickly handle updates and edits to content based on internal and client feedback.
- Share content across social sites and with interview sources and other high- profile contacts.
- Support the editorial team and collaborate with the wider content team when the need arises.
What Will You Bring to Us?
- At least 5 years of experience writing a minimum of 10 pieces (depending on content scope/word-count/etc.) per week in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, Marketing, Finance, or a related field.
- Expertise in SEO best practices, creating content with EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness), and recent industry trends driving those best practices.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating excellent writing skills and SEO proficiency.
- Proficient in using content management systems and analytics tools.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Goal-driven, both personally and for the team’s overall success, with a proven record of commitment and resilience in the workplace.
- Provable expertise in a particular area of personal finance is a major plus.
The salary range for this role is $90,000-$120,000 per year, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with excellent growth opportunity; we pride ourselves in having a team that exudes leadership, high initiative, creativity and passion.
- Awesome medical, dental and vision plans with heavy employer contribution
- Paid maternity leave and paternity leave programs
- Paid vacation, sick days and holidays
- Company funding for outside classes and conferences to help you improve your skills
- Contribution to student loan debt payments after the first year of employment
- 401(k) -- employees can start contributing immediately. After the first year, GOBankingRates matches your contribution up to 4% of your salary
A note about our new norm: The world has changed and we know it’s important to adapt and to do our part to do what's best for our team. Our number one priority is to have our team feel safe, balanced and connected. We’re committed to providing our teams with the best resources and tools to navigate this new virtual world that we’re living in. We've also reinvented the ways in which we recognize, celebrate, and engage with each other to keep our culture strong!Here’s a peek into our world at GOBankingRates -
- Our teams are working remotely 100% for the foreseeable future. We’re in the digital media space, so we’re mobile and flexible!
- *Option to work from an office (if you need to get away!)
- Tools & resources are available to keep our team connected across North America. (JIRA, Trello, Slack, Zoom and so much more!)
- To keep our community engaged and connected, virtual team building events are held weekly and monthly.
- For wellness and balance, weekly virtual fitness classes such as yoga are available.
- To care for the local communities that we’re a part of across the U.S our team members host socially distanced philanthropic events every quarter.
- And most importantly, we’ve committed to consistent and transparent communication to help us all stay informed, engaged and to keep us on our path to success and #greatness.
We are an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
