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Forbes Vetted is seeking an experienced Updates Writer to join our growing ecommerce editorial team. The Updates Writer will augment and optimize published evergreen content, aiming to maintain and improve content quality, conversion and rank across the fashion, beauty and travel categories. A successful candidate will be a master at balancing strategy and creativity, with the ability to apply SEO best practices within commerce and informational content in a reader-focused way. Time management and prioritization skills are a must for this role, as it involves juggling a number of high-priority stories across sections. The Updates Writer for fashion, beauty and travel should also be experienced covering topics within these verticals; formal product testing experience in any of the above areas is a plus. This role will report to the Forbes Vetted updates editor, but involves collaboration with relevant category editors and the SEO and data teams.
Responsibilities:
- Writing strategic updates, plus optimizing and fact-checking top-performing content in designated categories, as assigned by the senior updates editor
- Identifying and executing on areas of improvement within published content in collaboration with the senior updates editor
- Implementing SEO best practices while keeping reader experience in mind
- Collaborating with category editors to maintain content quality across sections
- Performing competitor and product research, and conducting expert and/or peer interviews to bolster authority of updates content (preferred)
- Monitoring success of published updates and reporting on KPIs (preferred)
- Participating in sales event coverage, including potential shifts over holiday weekends like Memorial Day, Labor Day and Black Friday through Cyber Monday
The ideal candidate:
- Has 2-3 years of experience writing search-friendly and strategic content in the consumer fashion, beauty and/or travel categories
- Has a firm understanding of SEO best practices, and can optimize a story for conversion and search while keeping it readable and interesting
- Has a basic understanding of commerce KPIs and can use them to gauge success and identify areas for improvement in a story
- Can add a fresh and authoritative spin to content that’s been regularly updated, including sourcing and interviewing experts and incorporating quotes into copy
- Can work autonomously, but also enjoys collaborating with team members
- Is incredibly detail-oriented, with excellent time management and prioritization skills
- Has formal experience testing products specifically in the fashion, beauty and/or travel spaces (preferred)
- Has familiarity with data and insights tools such as Looker, Google Ads and SEMRush (preferred)
The annual base salary range for this role is $70,000 - $75,000
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