Managing Editor

Legend; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Managing Editor, where you will lead a specialized content team to enhance quality and engagement across key markets. This role offers the opportunity to grow your team, influence content strategy, and drive significant improvements in user satisfaction and revenue. With a focus on autonomy and accountability, you'll thrive in a dynamic environment that values your contributions.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Matched pension contribution

Health insurance

20 days annual leave plus extra days for birthday and life events

Flexible working arrangements

Annual discretionary bonus

Individual learning and development budget

Paid sabbatical at milestones

Companywide social events

Qualifications

• Track record of writing and editing high-quality content.
• Ability to boost user engagement and organic traffic.
• Strong managerial skills to lead a content team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of content experts and improve workflows.
• Drive content quality improvements impacting user satisfaction.
• Expand the team and market coverage over three years.

Skills

Writing high-quality content

Editing

SEO best practices

Team leadership

User engagement

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.

The Role:

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 our Managing Editor for one of our networks, winning with our growing team of four highly specialised content experts. Co-own the content journey of thousands of users across two key markets whilst growing your team and portfolio to cover 30+ team members and 10+ markets within the next three years.

Help our users. Grow your career. Win.

Your Impact:

• What you will positively impact during your first three months with us:

• Your team members through gaining their buy-in and have them be excited to work with you
• Our existing workflows, best practices, KPIs, and internal tools through suggesting improvements to these
• The top 50 content pages in your network through quality improvement suggestions. These pages collectively drive over 70% of our organic traffic, so even minor improvements can greatly impact user satisfaction and revenue.

• What you will drive during your first six months with us:

• A world-class work environment where your team members thrive
• Continuous quality and output improvements of the work of your team members
• Impactful site-wide content quality uplifts in the markets you own

• What you will win during your first 12 months with us:

• A significant expansion of the size of your team to improve existing markets faster as well as expand into new markets
• All the markets your team is active in exclusively have pages live meeting our best-in-class content quality best practices.

What You'll Bring:

• We seek resourceful and kind self-starters 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.

• In terms of technical skills for the Managing Editor role, you ideally bring:

• A track record of writing and editing high-quality content, boosting user engagement and organic traffic.
• The ability to do the above whilst keeping SEO best practices.
• A strong managerial toolkit, understanding how to best lead your team members to unlock the most of their potential.

The Interview Process:

• 1st: Initial Chat with Talent Partner (30 mins via Zoom)
• 2nd: Interview with our team, Interviewer 1 and Interviewer 2 (1 hour video via Zoom)
• 3rd: Take home task - you will be given 3 days to complete the task
• 4th: Final interview with our team, Interviewer 1 and Interviewer 2 (1 hour video via Zoom)

Why Legend?

• Competitive salaries.
• Matched pension contribution.
• Health insurance.
• 20 days annual leave allowance and two extra days to celebrate your birthday and a life event day.
• Flexible working to suit you "work your way".
• Annual discretionary bonus linked to business and personal performance.Long-term incentive plan to share in the growth of our business.
• Individual learning and development budget.
• Recharge your batteries between Christmas & New Year (our offices are closed).
• Paid sabbatical when you hit milestones.
• Companywide social events.

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 [e-mail], and we'll do all we can to support you.