Managing Editor, The Digital Project Manager

Who You Are

• A content strategist and editorial leader with a track record of scaling organic content programs and managing high-performing content teams in digital media or SaaS.
• An AI enthusiast with a deep curiosity for how AI is shaping content and workflows, as well as the entire landscape of project management, PM tools, and the future of work. You’re excited about the possibilities AI unlocks for automating the tedious, enhancing strategy, and helping organizations work smarter. You’re eager to explore, test, and share insights that help others navigate the AI shift with confidence and clarity.
• A deep subject-matter expert in project delivery, project management and PM technology with knowledge and experience of delivery frameworks including Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid approaches, as well as hands-on experience using tools like Monday, Asana, Clickup, JIRA, Wrike, Trello, and more. You understand the daily realities of project managers and know how to speak their language.
• A systems-minded editor who sees the story and the structure—someone who knows how to turn editorial feedback into smarter processes, better briefs, scalable templates, and AI-integrated workflows that raise the floor (and ceiling) on content quality.
• A reader-obsessed content leader. You anticipate needs, recognize friction, and shape content that reaches people at the right time, in the right way—with clarity, empathy, and purpose. You explore how content can engage—surfacing new opportunities, experimenting with formats, and helping readers stay ahead of what’s coming next.
• A hands-on contributor and explorer who tests tools, talks to users, digs deep into products, and brings experience to the content you guide. You're just as comfortable writing a first-person piece as you are leading a roadmap sync.
• A collaborative leader and strategic partner who thrives in cross-functional environments—aligning content strategy with SEO, product marketing, and brand to build long-term authority, trust, and visibility.

What You'll Be Doing (Responsibilities)

• Lead content strategy and roadmap: Lead the content roadmap, prioritizing what we create, update, and optimize based on performance data, business goals, and audience needs. Own and evolve our editorial methodology to ensure every piece aligns with our mission to help readers future-proof their organizations. Track and analyze performance data to inform strategic decisions.
• Elevate content quality and innovation: Oversee site-wide content quality and clarity. Write and contribute first-person content on high-priority topics . Test and scale new content formats that add unique value and improve engagement. Surface emerging reader needs by talking to users, testing tools, and spotting opportunities before they appear in SEO data—with a special focus on AI topics.
• Build and scale content systems: Collaborate with SEO, Content Ops, and Media teams to refine and scale workflows and systems that improve content efficiency and consistency. Contribute to scalable processes that enhance quality and enable faster publishing without sacrificing editorial standards.
• Grow a high-performing content team: Manage and mentor a team of editors and contributors, providing structured feedback, editorial development, and career support. Coach internal experts and editors to participate in earned media and thought leadership efforts, in partnership with the Digital PR Lead.

How Your Success Will Be Measured

• Content output & velocity: Volume of high-quality net-new and updated articles published each month, aligned to strategic priorities and roadmap goals. processes that increase quality, reduce friction, and enable scale—resulting in faster time-to-publish, increased traffic and revenue, and reduced content production costs.
• Content quality & clarity: Adherence to editorial standards, voice, and structure—along with improvements in engagement metrics, UX feedback, and time-to-publish efficiency.
• Performance impact: Growth in keyword rankings, organic traffic, and conversion rates from content tied to business-critical topics and funnel stages.
• Systemic & scalable improvements: Enhancements to templates, briefs, workflows, and AI-assisted processes that increase quality, reduce friction, and enable scale—resulting in faster time-to-publish, increased traffic and revenue, and reduced content production costs.
• Team development: Feedback adoption, editorial growth, and quality improvements from contributors, resulting in faster content cycles, increased publishing autonomy, and higher volume of consistently high-quality content.
• Thought leadership readiness: Media participation and SME engagement with Digital PR.

Your Skillset Includes

• 5–7+ years in organic content strategy, editorial leadership, or content marketing.
• A strong foundation in business management, people leadership, people operations, HR and workplace tech, with firsthand experience using tools like HRIS, ATS, onboarding platforms, or performance management systems—and the ability to translate that experience into high-value content.
• A proven track record of managing content teams or freelancers in fast-paced, high-output environments—balancing coaching, quality, and efficiency.
• Deep knowledge of SEO, user intent, and content UX, and how they come together to create content that ranks, converts, and genuinely helps the reader.
• Experience scaling content systems, including contributing to or leading the evolution of templates, briefs, and AI-assisted workflows that improve consistency and velocity.
• A history of publishing high-quality, high-impact content at scale, across multiple stages of the funnel and topic clusters.
• Strong research skills, with experience conducting structured interviews, testing tools, and turning audience insights into actionable content plans.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and project management skills, with experience working with SEO, media, operations, and leadership stakeholders.
• Ability to leverage data to drive decisions, including performance reporting, testing frameworks, and content analytics.
• Comfortable with our stack of tools including; GA4, Ahrefs, WordPress, and Airtable.
• Proficiency in AI-assisted content creation, including prompt writing, tuning, and optimizing AI workflows to enhance editorial quality, consistency, and efficiency.

Nice To Haves

• Experience contributing expert commentary or appearing in thought leadership content
• Familiarity with PR/media collaboration and working alongside outreach or communications teams
• Background in content UX, accessibility, or conversion-oriented design for content