As one of our Content Writers, you’ll play an important role in ensuring we continue to produce great SEO Content for our clients that’s delivered on time and gets results.
Our SEO Content work is branded as Content Growth, and clients engage us to produce a set number of posts each month on retainer based on an SEO Content strategy we formulate for them, which is focused on bringing them impressive results.
Ellipsis is growing quickly. We do outstanding work and are building something special. It’s an exciting time to join us.
As our new Content Writer, you’ll work on creating content for Content Growth clients, developing outlines, editing and peer-reviewing articles, making SEO-based revisions to previous content, and occasionally uploading client-approved articles to their WordPress backend.
The majority of our content work is about WordPress, WooCommerce, and other SaaS topics. You’ll work across a range of clients, products, and industries to write world-class content. You will be joining a small but growing team of six writers who work alongside our team of Content Managers, Graphic Designer, and will report to our Senior Content Writer.
We believe technology can help us create better work and better outcomes for our clients. We’ve used AI in our content process since our inception in 2018. We continue to use AI, including GPT-4 and Claude, in our content process.
But – in a world where anyone can generate outputs with AI-writing tools, we see an opportunity to build on this and create significantly better content than the competition.
As a 100% remote team, we carefully balance collaboration with an environment that enables everyone to do their best work. You’ll communicate with the team through Basecamp, our project management software, and Google Meet. We’re located in Europe and require 2 hours of overlap with GMT each day.
You’ll have opportunities to be involved across the content process, but your primary work will be writing outlines and articles, and you’ll need to be happy writing content at a volume of ~five posts per week.
- WordPress and WooCommerce plugin tutorials (developer or non-developer level)
- Editorial content and/or case studies
- Listicles such as top 10 WordPress plugin lists
- SEO-focused edits to existing content
Requirements: hard skills
- 2-4 years writing and editing experience, either on a team or freelance
- Excellent writing, grammar, and attention to detail
- Ability to take SaaS topics and turn them into compelling, user-friendly content
- Working SEO knowledge
- Knowledge of WordPress and WooCommerce
Requirements: soft skills
- Proven organisational skills: You must be obsessive with deadlines, managing and updating tasks, and totally reliable
- Fantastic communication skills: Remote work relies on mutual trust, so frequent and clear written communication is essential
- Receptive to feedback and solutions-oriented: We share and learn from each other honestly, openly, and easily.
- High level of self-awareness, a “people person”: You’ll be dealing with members of the team on a daily basis, so this is an integral part of the role
- Self-driven work ethic: You need to be self-motivated, comfortable taking the initiative, and see projects through to completion
Compensation and benefits:
- This is a full-time, 100% remote role. You’ll be a full team member, and involved in our team projects, work, and meetups
- Competitive salary with pension benchmarked to UK rates and based on experience.
- £28-30k/year salary, depending on experience
- 28 days of paid holiday
- An additional 1 paid holiday day a year with each year of tenure, up to a maximum of 5 additional days
- 4-day work week, once a month
- Genuinely flexible working
- Regular team retreats (~1 per year); last was Edinburgh, previously in Oxford, Madrid, and Budapest; next is in March 2025
- Time and budget for learning and development
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, and sick pay
- You’ll work for a sustainable, ethical company: we are aiming to become a B Corp by the end of 2025
It’s important we find the best candidate for this position, and our selection process will reflect this. You’ll be required to attend at least three interviews (by video call) and carry out a (paid) freelance project with us before we make an employment offer.
We’re fortunate to receive a large volume of applications, so make your application stand out. Please pay special attention to the main responsibilities of this role, and “how to apply”.
We do great work for clients and are building an ethical business that lets everyone do their best work. If you think you could be the next person to join our team, please apply 🙂
We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, and we look forward to receiving your application!
It’s important we find the best candidate for this position, and our selection process will reflect this.
We use video calls for interviews. You’ll have video interviews using Google Meet, including with your prospective line manager, Head of Content, and the Managing Director.
Following the completion of trial projects, we’ll ask for professional references from a previous manager and co-worker. We ask candidates to introduce us to their references, for a 10 minute call or email conversation. We then expect to move to make an offer quickly.
Ellipsis is an equal opportunity workplace.
The deadline for submission is the end of the day, on 24th January 2025. We’ll be in touch with all candidates following the close of applications.
