Content Editor
Job Description
We'd love to hear from you if you like:
- Working with a friendly, collaborative, supportive and brilliant team at one of Forbes’s Top Startups
- Career advancement—we promote based on merit, not tenure
- Making a difference in a huge market ($2T market size)
- Mentorship from serial entrepreneurs and leaders who have scaled companies like LinkedIn, Amazon, Robinhood, Wayfair, SoFi, Microsoft, etc
About the role:
At Jerry, we are on a mission to make car ownership more accessible and affordable to all. Our mobile app helps customers save time and money on everything related to their cars including insurance, loans, safety, repairs, and more. Our website helps our readers stay informed and make better decisions about their cars by simplifying opaque industry terminology, sharing engaging tips and tricks, and helping everyday people troubleshoot common car issues. Over the past two years, our readership has grown exponentially from 370K to 7M monthly visitors. Our articles are frequently ranked as a top Google search result for anything car-related, and we want to continue earning our readers’ trust by providing engaging and helpful content.We are looking for a Content Editor to join our talented editorial team. Reporting to our Director of Content, you will contribute to the production of high-volume, high-ROI content while ensuring compliance with Google's E-E-A-T (Expertise, Experience, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) guidelines. You will mentor junior editors and writers, as well as oversee the entire content creation process—from conception to editing and publishing—guaranteeing adherence to established standards for accuracy, clarity, consistency, style, tone, and grammar. Join our team and be an integral part of our journey, helping us reach and engage with even more readers. Together, we can disrupt this $2T market and give power and money back to the people.How you will make an impact:
- Manage the end-to-end creation and maintenance of competitive evergreen content on insurance and vehicle ownership
- Review and edit long and short-form articles produced by our team of editors, writers and researchers, and ensure that all content is published on schedule
- Analyze content performance and leverage data-driven insights to inform our editorial strategy
- Ensure that all content is free from errors and optimized for search engines and adheres to best practices for SEO
- Develop and implement editorial calendars and content strategies to increase readership
- Build and maintain documentation with best practice guidelines
- Maintain the Jerry brand across all digital media channels
Who you are:
- Bachelor Degree in a writing-intensive major (e.g. Journalism, Communications, English Literature, Media, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, etc.)
- 3+ years of editing and/or writing experience in a fast-paced digital environment for a broad consumer audience
- Impeccable writing skills; ability to harness style, tone and voice to appeal to your target audience
- You LOVE to write and have experience producing quality content at a high-volume
- You set a high bar for yourself and you are deeply accountable to your readers
- You are a self-starting problem solver that feels comfortable working independently and in a team environment
Jerry is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other characteristics protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.
Jerry is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@getjerry.com
About Jerry:
Jerry is building the first Super App to save car owners time and money on all their car expenses. Drivers deserve better. That’s why we’re committed to making shopping for insurance, financing, maintenance, repairs, parking and more just a few clicks, texts, or swipes away.Jerry is taking processes that haven’t substantively changed in decades and reimagining and redesigning them. Using artificial intelligence, machine learning and bots, Jerry eliminates the need for long forms and phone calls while providing personalized services for all car-owners’ needs.Today, Jerry is the #1 rated and most downloaded app in its category and the fastest way to compare and buy car insurance. We have more than 2M customers and we are just getting started. Join our team of curious and passionate people who love tackling real-world problems and be a part of building a revolutionary product that’s disrupting a massive market.Jerry was founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs and has raised more than $130 million in financing.