About the company
Option Alpha is helping our users make smarter, more profitable trades. With users at the heart of our decisions, Option Alpha is empowering people to trade options for income using our tools, education, and soon with our auto-trading software.
About the role
Option Alpha's content team produces a weekly podcast, daily podcasts, blogs, research reports, live videos, YouTube videos, and more.
We are looking for an editor to lead the on-site blog and research content. You will have direct reports for writing, research, and data analytics roles. You will work closely with our founder and marketing leads for content alignment and strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Ensures all content is easy to read and understand,
effectively helping the user navigate through the site and adhere to the
company's culture
- Ushers content through the full project cycle, editing
and reworking the copy through the approval process
- Work with writers to ensure all text is
published correctly
- Building and managing content calendars
- Identifying opportunities in organic search results
Qualifications
- Minimum 3+ years of experience writing/editing customer
communications, instructions and marketing copy for websites
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with
thorough knowledge of the English language, grammar, spelling,
punctuation, and usage
- Must be able to produce copy that's consistent with
Option Alpha's voice and tone
Preferred
Skills:
- Experience in trading/options/financial topics is preferred
- Experience as part of an e-Commerce team and/or online
marketing agency is greatly preferred
- Subject-matter expertise in web content, with an
ability to train others across the company on the subject
- Experience working in cross-functional teams with
writing, graphic design, and data science roles,
- Good basic understanding of web technology and
publishing
- Exceptional project management skills, including the
ability to manage schedules and deadlines for multiple projects
- Experience adhering to documented standards for copy,
obtaining feedback and approvals from clients, and revising documents
according to that feedback
- Experience enforcing best practices and processes from
the start of the project life cycle to the project's official launch
Candidates should provide at least
three recent web writing samples. Online portfolios are preferred.