Content Marketing Manager
ezCater is the world’s largest online marketplace for catering – a $60+ billion market in the U.S. We make it superbly 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 in early 2019 were valued at $1.25 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 a Content Marketing Manager, you’ll support ezCater’s marketing objectives by writing, editing, and publishing high-quality, on-brand content to our Lunch Rush blog and ezCater marketing campaigns. You will strive to create 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 editing all content marketing content, managing freelance writers, collaborating across the marketing team, developing editorial ideas and angles, and uncovering new formats and content channels that will increase our content marketing impact.
*Please submit a portfolio of your written work and cover letter to be considered for this role.
You will:
- Write, edit, and update content marketing assets. Editing work will include developmental editing, proofreading, and fact-checking.
- Ensure all content aligns with ezCater’s brand voice, messaging, and team and business goals.
- Manage a team of freelance writers, recruiting new writers as necessary.
- Collaborate with teams on their content needs. Turn requests and ideas into briefs that result in goal-oriented and on-brand content.
- Rely on performance data and competitive research to inform content development.
- 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).
- Manage and deliver on editorial calendar deadlines.
Please:
- Love writing and uncovering new ways to reach an audience with your work
- Have 5-7 years of experience as a content marketer, and a degree in English, Communications or Journalism
- Have an excellent command of the English language, experience with the Chicago Manual of Style
- Be comfortable working both cross-functionally and autonomously.
- Be detail oriented with excellent organizational and time management skills
- Have experience in CMS publishing, preferably in WordPress
- Be knowledgeable about SEO best practices
- Have experience measuring content performance with platforms like Google Analytics
- Have experience recruiting and managing a team of freelancers
- Be kind, adaptable, and intellectually curious.
What you’ll get from us:
Importantly, you’ll get a tremendous amount of authority and autonomy. You’ll own your outcomes and see measurable results for your efforts. With ezCater’s unmatched transparency and trust, you’ll have open access to the data that drives our decisions. ezUniversity sessions will provide plenty of opportunities to expand your mind.
At the same time, 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: Market salary, stock options you’ll help make worth a lot, the usual holidays, all-you-can-eat vacation, 401K, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, subsidized T-passes, a great office in the heart of Boston, 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.