Editor

The Role

Home Solutions is seeking an Editor with excellent editorial, research, writing, and project management skills to be part of our growing team. You’ll be responsible for delivering publication-ready content that is on time, well-researched, meticulously copy edited, and optimized for SEO. You’ll be responsible for coaching and managing in-house or freelance writers, planning and tracking content production, and managing related projects.

Day to Day

• Edit and proofread articles for editorial excellence, search engine optimization, and conversion rate optimization.
• Refresh existing articles, ensuring all information is up to date and confirming the content satisfies reader intent.
• Deliver feedback and coach writers to ensure content meets our high standards for publication.
• Oversee content production and research initiatives to be on time and on budget.
• Guide writers on industry research within the Home vertical, elevating our existing research and testing processes.
• Collaborate with industry experts to identify ways to make our content as authoritative as possible.
• Promote E-E-A-T (Experience-Expertise- Authoritativeness-Trustworthiness) in our content.
• Ensure we have a strong understanding of what it takes to win organic search on our targeted keywords (what do readers need to know, who are our competitors, what is Google rewarding, etc.).
• Help track, measure, and report on production status and team capacity. Use these and other performance metrics (traffic, conversions, revenue, etc.) to inform our content strategy.
• Help build the culture of a growing and fun growth-stage company.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree (Journalism, Communications, English, or related field preferred).
• 2–3 years of digital editing or content production experience (experience in affiliate content or journalism preferred but not required).
• Expertise editing in AP style. 
• Exceptional attention to detail: You maintain a high standard of excellence in your work while meeting deadlines.
• Ownership mentality: You stand behind your work. You take initiative and don’t need constant supervision. 
• Project management and organizational skills: You can prioritize and balance multiple projects in the same time frame.
• Agility: You are comfortable in a fast-paced and often changing environment.
• Curiosity and an inherent drive to be excellent: You are not satisfied with average. You do what it takes to get the job done at a world-class level. While we’re looking for some specific experiences and skill sets, nothing is more important than a strong can-do attitude, resilience in the face of change and uncertainty, and a passion for learning and creating.
• Experience with home improvement projects (a bonus, not required).

What’s awesome about being an Editor here?

• People — Work with great people who are smart, kind, and ambitious.
• Stability — Work with a company that is profitable and growing. We have a strong business model with more than 10 years of profitability behind us.
• Incentives — Receive annual bonuses based on your business results.
• Transparency — you will have visibility into performance as well as how the team is tracking both week-over-week and year-over-year.

About Us

Home Solutions is part of the Three Ships family of digital businesses. Three Ships started as a digital agency in 2009, and today encompasses businesses in the Home, Auto, Legal, and Health industries with a collective goal of simplifying the ways people discover, research, and buy. We have a proven playbook and are looking for an entrepreneurial leader to apply it to new uncharted areas. You will have a front-row seat to build and grow a business, and there is no cap on growth, promotions, or the opportunity to own and put your stamp on important projects. Here at Three Ships, we are a mighty team with subject- matter experts in creative, branding, content strategy, SEO, paid media, and more. The opportunity to grow and learn new skills is endless. ABottom line, at Three Ships, we have a high bar for excellence, but also a real interest in each other and making work fun. We’re excited to have you see what we’re all about firsthand.

About Home Solutions 

• Launched Fall 2017.
• Home Solutions targets the rapidly digitizing home services vertical.
• Home Solutions matches homeowners with the right service provider to meet their needs. 
• Through our websites and partners, Home Solutions has a proprietary audience of 25M+ homeowners and prime real estate in search engines. 
• We have created a whole class and layer of guides, reviews, and ratings that are “best on the Internet” and editorially independent. 
• We use this audience to help leading home services brands acquire new customers.

The Package

As a member of the Home Solutions platform, you have access to competitive benefits, including health insurance, a 401k match, mobile reimbursement, a rest-and-recharge bonus, and an office stocked with snacks, coffee, and just about every other beverage you can imagine.

How We Hire

All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or any other discriminatory factors. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this role. All offers are subject to a background check.