Managing Editor

Legend; Greater London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading brand management firm in Greater London seeks a Managing Editor to oversee content quality and lead a team of editors. This role offers the opportunity to shape content strategies while mentoring skilled professionals. Ideal candidates will have strong management experience and a proven track record in content creation, particularly for English-speaking markets. Flexible working hours and a competitive compensation package are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Generous annual leave

Competitive compensation package

Employee engagement events

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing other people managers.
• Track record of writing and editing high-quality content.
• Experience in setting up guidelines and processes.

Responsibilities

• Oversee content quality across various markets.
• Mentor and coach Content Managers and editors.
• Track KPIs and ensure operational excellence.

Skills

Management

Content editing

SEO tools usage

Process building

Tools

SEMRush

AHREFS

G4A

Job description

We are Legend.

We exist to build legendary experiences, by growing winning brands that people love, together.

For over 20 years, we’ve built cutting-edge products in the world’s most competitive comparison markets: iGaming, Sports Betting, and Personal Finance.

We’re 700+ Legends strong. As a team, we’re growing an industry-leading portfolio that continues to attract and entertain 100s of millions of people worldwide.

You might not know our name, but we power some of the biggest iGaming, Sports Betting and Personal Finance brands worldwide. We drive performance behind the scenes, and let our results do the talking.

Our company has a unique DNA and culture nurtured over two decades. Everything we do is driven by our five core values: Rocking It, Win as One, Build the Future, Shipping Greatness, and Play to Win. These form an energy and team spirit that inspires us to do our best work.

From amplified career paths to supercharged online journeys for our users, we deliver magic rooted in method.

Want in?

Unlock the Legend in you.

Your path to legendary impact starts here.

Do you wake up Monday morning excited to deliver the highest possible content quality to your readers? Are you motivated by continuously unlocking the potential of your team members? Do you enjoy leading by example, scaling, setting the pace, and being accountable for your market results?

Join us as a Managing Editor!

Legend is hiring for 3 x Managing Editors due to growth. You’ll be reporting directly to our Publishing Leadership. This role will support our Content team to expand and optimise our growing sites across North America, Europe and beyond.

You will lead a world-class team of a couple of highly specialised Content Managers, overseeing a larger team of skilled editors[circa 10]. Some of these teams are established and some you’ll be building. Co‑own the content journey of thousands of users and build a long term, sustainable strategy that keeps us ahead of the competition. Help our users. Grow your career. Win.

In this role, we value diverse perspectives and encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed.

What You'll Positively Impact:

• Full ownership of content quality across your markets.
• Mentoring, nurturing and coaching your team to drive their performance, ensuring they deliver at pace and to standard.
• KPI tracking and accountability, embedding metrics into daily work.
• Operational excellence in task planning, commitments, and OKRs.
• Workflow optimisations, including BAU streams, AI opportunities, and content freshness strategies.
• Work closely with our Content Managers to ensure Best In Class content is shipped, this could be through developing SEO guides, aligning best practices or getting hands‑on to suggest improvements.

What Makes You A Potential Legend:

• We seek resourceful and kind self‑stators who enjoy autonomy, a dynamic environment, and high accountability. You’ll thrive here if you’re always eager to learn, value constructive feedback, and are excited by big goals.

Technical Skills & Experience

• A strong managerial toolkit, understanding how to best lead your team members to unlock the most of their potential. You’ll have significant experience managing other people managers [this could look like having a few direct reports with a larger team of 6 plus].
• An extensive track record of writing and editing high-quality content, boosting user engagement and organic traffic for English‑speaking markets.
• Proven experience as a process builder – you’ll have set up new guidelines, processes to help drive team performance. Ideally, using AI and automation to ship quality content at velocity.
• Demonstrable experience of using SEO tools [like SEMRush, AHREFS] and Content Performance tools [like G4A] to boost user engagement and organic traffic. More details here

Career Growth

• For this role as a Managing Editor, you will have multiple chances to progress further with us over time.
• We can’t make any iron‑clad promises as to timelines, as more senior roles are unlocked by us reaching our organisational targets. But an example could include growing into a Head of Content role taking ownership of multiple markets through a team of Managing Editors.
• Once you’ve finished onboarding, we will make an IDP together, helping you reach your long‑term career ambitions.

Culture & Benefits

• We thrive from helping our team members grow their skills and careers. It's one of our biggest motivations as a company.
• We regularly check in with our team and have strong employee engagement scores. Being #1 is only worth it if we’re having fun along the journey.
• We offer flexible working hours. Our core hours are from 10 am to 3 pm your local time.
• We benchmark our compensation packages annually which tells us what the market is paying. When we say we offer a "competitive package", we mean it. We also have a long‑term incentive plan so we can all share in the growth and success of Legend.
• We offer generous annual leave, including our company shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s, birthdays, volunteer and life event days.
• We host exciting global Legend events, where we unite in person to ignite our shared passion and unveil the exciting strategies for the year ahead!

Next Steps

• Then your Legendary journey begins – for more information on the process, please click here

Legend is an Equal Opportunity Employer, but that’s just the start. We believe different perspectives help us grow and achieve more. That’s why we’re dedicated to hiring and developing the most talented and diverse team- which includes individuals with different backgrounds, abilities, identities and experiences. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout your application process, please speak to your Talent Partner or contact the team at [e-mail], and we’ll do all we can to support you.