Branded Content Associate Editor & Production Lead

Afar; United States; On-site; USD 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Afar seeks an Associate Editor, Branded and Sponsored Content to join the marketing team. The role reports to the Director of Branded and Sponsored Content and works across marketing, sales, and client-facing tasks.

Responsibilities include production management, content development, collaboration with cross-functional teams, data analysis, and staying current on travel and media trends to optimize deliverables and client outcomes.

Qualifications

• Sharp writing, story editing, copyediting, and line editing skills.
• Meticulous, organized, and able to meet deadlines.
• Proactive, collaborative, and able to handle multiple stakeholders.
• Big-picture thinking with stakeholder perspective awareness.
• Open to testing new approaches with a metrics focus.

Responsibilities

• Support content and production: timelines, assets, budgets, and vendor coordination.
• Build and manage internal project timelines and workflows.
• Track deliverables, invoices, and agreements.
• Assist in developing ideas and proposals aligned with client KPIs.
• Produce content: research, writing, editing, fact-checking, CMS publishing, formatting, photo research/editing, optimization.
• Publish email newsletters, articles, travel guides and social posts.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, and editorial teams.
• Attend client and agency meetings to support sales and marketing.
• Track, analyze, optimize, and report performance and deliverables.
• Organize asset libraries and content creator rosters.
• Sourcing, evaluating, and selecting freelance contributors, vendors, and talent.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows and team processes.
• Stay current on trends in travel, media, and content marketing (LLM visibility, GEO, AEO).

Skills

Strong writing

Editing

Production management

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Deadline oriented

Travel & culture interest

CMS publishing

AI tools familiarity

Tools

Microsoft Office

Google Workspace

Adobe Creative Suite

AI agents

Job description

Afar seeks an Associate Editor, Branded and Sponsored Content to join the marketing team. The role reports to the Director of Branded and Sponsored Content and works across marketing, sales, and client-facing tasks.

Responsibilities include production management, content development, collaboration with cross-functional teams, data analysis, and staying current on travel and media trends to optimize deliverables and client outcomes.