Content Editor – Contextual Content

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⛷️ Utah – Remote

⛷️ Utah – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

👨🏼‍💻 Content Manager

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Ancestry

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1983

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Ancestry is a consumer-focused family history company that helps people discover, preserve, and share their family stories through online genealogy tools, historical records, and consumer DNA testing. The company operates a subscription-based platform and eCommerce offerings (such as DNA kits), maintains a large consumer DNA database, and combines technology, data science, and content to power personal discovery and research. Ancestry emphasizes customer experience, diversity and inclusion, and employs global teams across product, engineering, marketing, and science-related roles.

📋 Description

• Copyedit and proofread all Contextual Content team assignments and submit finalized versions for publication • Collaborate with writers to revise and develop assignments to completion • Contribute original writing to the content pipeline while balancing primary editing responsibilities • Ensure assignments follow style guidelines, quality and tone standards, department goals and values, and audience-awareness expectations • Complete fact checks on names, dates, and other details • Conduct plagiarism checks on submitted assignments • Provide training, feedback, and support to writers, including onboarding new writers • Partner with the Contextual Content team and Program Manager to manage workflows, track deadlines, and deliver the editorial roadmap • Provide status updates and reports to the Program Manager • Mitigate challenging situations to deliver positive results • Anticipate potential problems and mitigate risks to timelines and stakeholder expectations

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in communications, journalism, English, history, or a related field preferred • Minimum 2+ years of professional editing/writing experience • Experience leading or managing a group of contributors preferred • Excellent writing and proofreading/editing skills • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Proficiency utilizing AI tools effectively within the editorial workflow • Nuanced understanding of balancing AI assistance without replacing human intuition and accuracy • Ability to interpret and implement guidelines and standards • Ability to adhere to a style guide and tone • Strong internet and research skills • Ability to manage and prioritize several tasks simultaneously • Self-starter with the desire and energy to achieve goals under tight deadlines • Attention to detail and accuracy • Ability to work independently and in a team setting • Strong, proven background in history or family history research • Knowledge of English writing, grammar, and editing conventions outside the US, such as Canada, Australia, and UK/Ireland, helpful • Experience or knowledge with image curation a strong plus • All job offers contingent on a background check screen compliant with applicable law

🏖️ Benefits

• Location-flexible work approach: nearest office, home, or hybrid of both, subject to restrictions • Option to work remotely or from the Draper, UT location • Excellent benefits • Competitive compensation package • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities • Background-check process compliant with applicable law