Content Marketing Manager (Contract)
ezCater is the world's largest online marketplace for catering – a $60+ billion market in the U.S. We make it easy for businesspeople to find and order great food for meetings and events, and we help our catering partners grow their business. We're backed by $320 million in venture funding and valued at over $1 billion. Our mission is to power the world's catering, and we'll make it happen – even more surely if you come help us.
As our contracted Content Marketing Manager, you’ll support ezCater’s marketing objectives by producing and publishing high-quality, on-brand content to our Lunch Rush blog and ezCater marketing campaigns. You will strive to produce content that meaningfully contributes to the journey to becoming an ezCater customer or catering partner, establishes ezCater as a catering thought leader, and eases the catering order process for customers. Your primary responsibilities will include developing content briefs, managing the content calendar, video and content production, and publishing.
What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate with teams on their content needs. Turn requests and ideas into briefs that result in goal-oriented and on-brand content.
- Manage the content calendar. Set and manage content creation timelines, workflows, freelancers, and publishing dates.
- Produce articles, videos and podcasts. Handle the production logistics, review raw files to provide direction, and review asset drafts.
- Create the best possible user experience by partnering with the creative team on content visuals and design.
- Oversee content layout and publishing in our CMS (WordPress).
- Measure performance against our content marketing goals through monthly reporting and regular dashboard monitoring.
Please:
- Have 5-7 years of experience as a content marketer
- Have an excellent command of the English language, experience with the Chicago Manual of Style
- Show experience in video and podcast production and CMS publishing, preferably WordPress
- Be comfortable working both cross-functionally and autonomously
- Be detail oriented with excellent organizational and time management skills
- Be knowledgeable about SEO best practices
- Have experience measuring content performance with platforms like Google Analytics
- Be kind, adaptable, and intellectually curious
- Experience in the food and restaurant industry is a plus. Even better if you like catering
- Must be able to travel as needed
***This is a 5-6 month, M-F contract position starting ASAP. Interested candidates should indicate their availability in their application.***
What you’ll get from us:
Importantly, you’ll get sane working hours and a huge amount of flexibility around work/life balance. Have people in your life – of any age – who always, often, or sometimes need your help? We make room for that. Have a bad thing or a good thing happen to you? We make room for that, too.
Oh, and here’s what else you’ll get: a great office smack-dab in Boston’s Downtown Crossing, a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, cupcakes (and many more goodies), and knowing that you helped get this rocket ship to the moon.
ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones.