Managing Editor – Contract

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

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🟡 Mid-level

✏️ Editor

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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ConsumerAffairs

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏪 Marketplace

Consulting • Marketing • Marketplace

ConsumerAffairs is a comprehensive digital platform providing consumers with valuable information on a wide range of products and services. The company offers detailed reviews and guides, helping individuals make informed purchasing decisions across various sectors, such as home, automotive, finance, and senior care. With over 3 million reviews and insights from experts, ConsumerAffairs serves as a trusted resource for buyers seeking to compare products and services. The platform also facilitates connections between consumers and companies, driving transactions and informed decision-making.

📋 Description

• Coordinate the production of new and updated local buyers guides • Assign articles to editors and track work through publication • Review editors' work for accuracy, completeness and adherence to editorial standards • Give clear, actionable feedback and identify recurring quality issues across the program • Keep production moving across a high volume of assignments and deadlines • Research, evaluate and add relevant local businesses to buyers guides • Verify service areas, locations, services offered and business status • Fact-check local costs, licensing requirements, permitting requirements and regulations • Evaluate source quality and ensure factual claims are appropriately supported • Catch unsupported claims, inconsistencies, outdated information and factual errors • Run final QA on links, formatting, company details and local accuracy • Identify issues with source data, research processes or production workflows • Document problems clearly so they can be corrected and prevented in future work • Identify opportunities to add value through stronger local insights, better use of consumer review data and useful new sections • Look for content gaps and areas where additional research would make a guide more helpful • Help refine documentation, processes and editorial standards as the program grows • Troubleshoot and refine content production tools and workflows • Identify opportunities to improve accuracy, consistency and efficiency • Work with Content, SEO, data and engineering teams when broader support is required • Recommend process changes based on patterns across the program • Maintain a consistent flow of completed assignments • Identify and resolve quality issues before publication • Deliver thorough, well-sourced research • Maintain established editorial and QA standards • Clearly document recurring issues and recommended solutions

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in editorial, content operations or a related field, including experience editing or managing writers or editors • Exceptional attention to detail and an ability to recognize patterns across large volumes of content • Strong organization and project management skills across multiple assignments, people and deadlines • Rigorous research, sourcing and fact-checking skills • Strong editorial judgment and the ability to distinguish reliable information from weak or unsupported claims • Fluency with spreadsheets and structured data • Comfort learning and working with modern content, research and automation tools • The ability to follow a detailed process while also recognizing when that process needs to change • Clear written communication, particularly when giving editorial feedback • Curiosity about how structured content can be made more useful to consumers • Bonus: Programmatic SEO or local SEO experience • Bonus: Background in service journalism or consumer guides • Bonus: Experience building or troubleshooting editorial workflows using tools such as AirOps, Airtable or similar platforms • Bonus: Experience researching local businesses, licensing or government regulations • Bonus: Experience working with company review data or large datasets • Bonus: Familiarity with Ahrefs or Google Search Console • Bonus: Basic experience with automation, APIs, no-code tools or scripting

🏖️ Benefits

• This is a contract position and, as such, is not eligible for company-sponsored benefits.