GOBankingRates.com, a division of ConsumerTrack Inc., is a financial portal that provides readers with fresh takes on a range of financial topics from personal finance and budgeting to financial planning, wealth building, and investing. Over 1 million readers visit our website each month to read original articles on information and trending news topics in the money vertical.

Our editorial team has partnered with dozens of top media outlets like MSN, Daily Finance, Business Insider, CBS MoneyWatch, and Huffington Post to provide syndicated and original personal finance, investing, retirement, and consumer banking content to readers.

We are looking for a full-time, in-house digital content editor for our News and Events segment, which produces in-depth, data-driven content. As an Editor on the GOBankingRates content team, you will edit and optimize features on personal finance topics incorporating data and graphics provided by our in-house research and design teams. Topics will include but are not limited to money management, banking, debt, investing, retirement planning, consumer behavior and product cost analyses.

This is a full-time position based in our El Segundo, California office.

Responsibilities

• Own growing articles from pre- to post-production to ensure all deadlines along the production process and all quality standards are met
  • Daily check-ins on your content to ensure all deadlines are being met, including by freelancers and other task owners
  • Prompt addressing of hold-ups in production with team members as needed, including Design, Video, freelancers and other stakeholders like Social and Content Partnerships
• Collaboration with other departments to facilitate production of visual elements needed for your articles, including Social, Design and Video
• Daily editing tasks, including writing and/or reviewing assignment briefs, fact-checking, copy editing and potential rewrites, pre-pub QA, link review and QA
• Fact-checking research, fact-checking and editing video scripts, fact-checking infographics and editing other design visuals
• Project managing freelancers
• Bringing up issues and solutions to your direct manager — often, this will require collaborating with other departments, submitting and UAT’ing tickets, providing training support or feedback, etc.
• Prescriptive problem solving: Presenting a problem with your recommended best solution and ensuring you get an answer
• Supporting ongoing training needs for in-house and freelance teammates
• Sharing updates and information with the entire team as needed
• Ongoing brainstorming for new article concepts and angles, vetting against previously published articles and keyword strength
• Continually reviewing partners and competitors to trend-spot and bring new ideas to the table
• Take ownership of all content that you are assigned to manage the production process for, i.e., writing, copy editing, fact checking – ensure quality.
• Improve production process and overall efficiency

• Three years of digital content editing or similar experience with a focus on news/current events, SEO, keyword optimization and conversion trends
• Interest/awareness of news and current events with a preferable background in the news industry (newspaper, broadcast or online journalism)
• Digital content writing or journalism experience
• Understanding of keyword optimization
• Full command of copy-editing skills (AP Style), including grammar, spelling, punctuation, flow, and ability to identify missing information the reader will be looking for
• Original reporting/interviewing experience
• Fact-checking experience
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with a fast-paced team
• Collaborative, self-motivated editor requiring minimal supervision
• Technical aptitude (content management system, blog platform, HTML knowledge, and experience with Google Analytics and Google Keyword Planner Tool preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree in journalism or similar