Who are we?We are The Motley Fool, a purpose-driven financial services firm with nearly 30 years of expertise.
Our goal is to make the world smarter, happier, and richer by providing outstanding business and investing advice, at scale.
But what does that even mean?!
It means we’re helping Fools (always with a capital “F”) demystify the world of finance, beat the stock market, and achieve personal wealth and happiness through our investing services, like Stock Advisor, and Motley Fool Wealth Management, our portfolio management service.What does this team do?Our SEO Team enables us to share high-quality, engaging content with an ever-expanding portion of the world through search.
We use an equal mix of data analysis, strategy, collaboration, and execution to optimize our content and bring readers everywhere valuable financial information.What would you do in this role?As an SEO Editor, you’ll be an integral component in scaling SEO content produced by our team.
As for the day-to-day, well, you’d be tackling many important initiatives.
One day you could be editing content to ensure SEO best practices are upheld.
Another day, you’d be figuring out ways to improve our editorial efficiency while also helping our SEO team with keyword research and optimizing an existing library of content.
Suffice to say, you won’t get bored.
You will also have a chair at the table to define and drive forward our SEO strategy.Do you see the opportunity lying in front of us?
Are you ready to get started?But what does this role actually do?* Work with the evergreen SEO team to edit and publish key content to our team of contract writers, optimizing for potential organic presence and scale through using SEO best practices like keyword optimization, internal linking strategies, and content formatting.* Work with the evergreen SEO team to improve our processes around scaling our strategies for SEO efforts like internal linking, achieving rich results, etc.* Take the lead on onboarding, training, and developing contract writers and editors for evergreen SEO.
Help us improve our processes for efficiency and improved writer and editor experience.* Monitor organic article performance and SERP positioning metrics with a focus on increasing and defending our rankings.* Ensure that our content meets regulatory guidelines and keeps us compliant with our partners, regulators, and our internal legal and compliance teams.* Develop expertise in The Motley Fool’s publishing business.
Thoroughly understand who our competitors are and work tirelessly to generate better content.
Whether it’s presenting our message in text, audio, video, infographic, or smoke signal, our content’s expression will be for you to determine.* Maintain up-to-date knowledge of digital publishing in line with industry trends, creatively keeping us a step ahead of our competitors.What do you need to apply?* 3+ years of experience in editorial with exposure to SEO best practices.* Proven track record of personal growth.
Tell us about a time when hard work and determination took you from beginner to expert.
We’re activity-agnostic
– it could be at the batting cage or calligraphy class or your award-winning vegetable garden.
We just want to know what drives you to achieve.* An obsession with winning.
Being competitive isn’t enough.
You play to win.* Humility.
We’ve thrown a lot of superlatives around here (the best content, the highest quality) and we talk an awful lot about our relentless pursuit to win.
But we should be clear: our strong opinions are paired with a slice of humble pie.
We believe in the power of the team and the wisdom of many.
We hope your cup spilleth over with passion for your ideas, and that your passion can shapeshift into support for the idea that wins.* Passion for online publishing.
Dreaming up new content is a normal shower thought and you are proactive in staying up-to-date on all the latest trends and best practices.Jack and Jill’s of all trades tend to thrive in our environment so it’s even better if you have…* Content marketing* Previous personal finance and investing experience* Experience with industry tools (We’re super users of Google Analytics, Google Search Console, SEMRush, Moz, DeepCrawl, Ahrefs)* Data analytics and conversion rate optimizationThe Motley Fool is firmly committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity.
We are a motley group of overachievers that have built a culture of trust founded on Foolishness, fun, and a commitment to making the world smarter, happier and richer.
However you identify or whatever winding road has led you to us, please don’t hesitate to apply if the description above leaves you thinking, “Hey!
I could do that!”The Motley Fool has been twice named Glassdoor’s #1 Best Small Business to work for in the U.S., named to Inc.’s Best Workplaces of 2020, named one of BuiltIn’s Best Places to Work in Colorado, and we’re a perennial favorite on Washingtonian’s list of Best Places to Work year after year.
Below you’ll see a few of our perks, but check out this site for the complete list:* No “vacation policy” (not to be confused with a “No vacation” policy)* Paid maternity, paternity, and pet-ernity leave* $1,000 to invest when you start* Super low premiums for medical, dental and vision coverage* Comprehensive compensation package, including company equity#LI-CG