Senior Editor, Content SEO

Shopify's mission is to make commerce better for everyone. To deliver on that promise, we're building a unified commerce platform that allows anyone, anywhere to pursue independence through entrepreneurship.

Shopify's Content & SEO team focuses on creating and distributing educational content aimed at helping merchants to become—and thrive as—entrepreneurs. As the Senior Editor, your work will focus on both strategic and line-level edits of SEO-led blog articles to ensure consistent, top-notch editorial framing, structure, formatting, and optimization are present.

As a representative of the editorial craft at Shopify, you'll also contribute to and uphold our editorial and style guidelines to help ensure editorial integrity and quality at scale. And as part of the Growth org at Shopify, you'll be responsible for contextualizing the impact of your work through a performance lens, proactively seeking opportunities to optimize content to improve performance, and brainstorming creative ways to scale your wins.

You're a strong editor familiar with the requirements of digital publishing production and best practices, and know how to balance rolling up your sleeves to get work done and proactively sharing new ideas and ways we could do things differently to improve. You're not afraid to take on new ways to create educational materials while ensuring any innovations don't come at a cost of editorial integrity.

What you'll be responsible for:

• Top-editing several blog articles per week—with degree of editing ranging from QA'ing light article tweaks to strategically editing longer-form articles, listicles, and landing page copy—to ensure adherence to our tone of voice, formatting, framing, and SEO guidelines.

• Writing, as needed, on select editorial pages to help expedite the editing process.

• Taking editorial review of SEO article briefs to ensure story outlines and positioning are in line with brand POV and accuracy standards.

• Shepherding articles through the editorial process, from editing through copy-editing and, when needed, uploading into our CMS.

• Collaborating closely with our lead SEO editor and the rest of the content SEO team to ensure that each article contains the right CTAs, links, and gated assets.

• Partnering with the SEO and/or Content Marketing teams to vet keywords, run on-page SEO tests, and on other projects that require editorial input.

• Supporting leads with codifying best practices, one-pagers, guidelines to enable teammates, colleagues, freelancers, and agencies to do our best work.

Requirements for the role:

• Experience in digital publishing, preferably in both an editorial publishing setting as well as in a corporate/tech setting (but not required). A digital portfolio reflecting your body of work is a bonus.

• CMS experience/ability to hand code HTML when necessary

• An understanding of basic content analytics and the ability to contextualize them

• The ability to make quick decisions based on a limited set of information

• Experience in senior level editing role

• Experience adhering to style guides

• Eye for detail

• Knowledge of SEO to make informed editorial decisions

• Strong communication skills—we work remotely, and proactive communication is critical on our teams

• A growth mindset—you'll arrive with a lot to learn, and a willingness to grow and learn will help you be successful