Associate Content Producer

**Company Description**

Forbes Advisor is a new initiative for consumers under the Forbes Marketplace umbrella that provides journalist
- and expert-written insights, news and reviews on all things personal finance.

We are an experienced team of industry experts dedicated to helping readers make smart decisions and choose the right products with ease. Marketplace boasts decades of experience across dozens of geographies and teams. The team brings rich industry knowledge to Marketplace’s global coverage of consumer credit, debt, health, home improvement, banking, investing, credit cards, small business, education, insurance, loans, real estate and travel.

**Position Overview**

The Publishing Team is responsible for creating all new Forbes Advisor web pages and optimising existing pages via the CMS across the numerous Forbes Advisor properties. This is in order to meet customer needs and ultimately deliver the business SEO strategy. The team has grown quickly and continues to do so, producing 700+ pieces of content per month, with new areas of responsibility arriving regularly. This specialist role is fundamental to the business’ success, ensuring we are able to publish content quickly, accurately and to a high standard first time. We are seeking a talented individual to help Forbes Marketplace to best leverage and scale our content production capabilities across multiple properties. A typical day in the life of a Content Producer involves working with the team management and monitoring our intake queues to understand content briefs, and using Wordpress to build or optimise pages to meet those requirements in a fast and accurate manner. You will also be regularly supporting and training other Content Producers and Interns.

**Responsibilities**

- Publish all content types within your assigned vertical(s) at pace to meet deadlines and to a high standard. Attention to detail is vital and is the cornerstone of what the team stands for. You will be expected to uphold this in the work you produce.
- Manage your own workflow where possible, proactively identifying new formatting tasks from the intake queue and completing them self-sufficiently.Complete any formatting change type within your vertical(s) using the advanced WordPress understanding that you will develop in the role.
- You will be expected to be able to make changes to all components self-sufficiently. You will also have a solid understanding of other vertical CMS' and be able to make changes in them when required to support the wider team.
- You will be expected to identify and raise any issues you encounter with the CMS to team management so that these can be logged with the technology teams for fixing. You will also be expected to proactively propose solutions for what the fix needs to achieve.
- Deliver publishing support and training for other Production Team members and Interns by using your advanced CMS knowledge to help other Content Producers and Interns,Work with the PR/Branding teams to create Custom Branded Landers for FA award winning companies to link to when required

Skills and Experience

- We’re a team of 30+ so we need people who can work in an agile manner and juggle multiple priorities concurrently across many different product types.
- CMS experience is crucial and we require two years plus experience of using the most advanced authoring features in Wordpress, AEM or similar. This can be less if you have completed an internship within the team. You also need to enjoy using CMS’ and exploiting the opportunities they present to the business as well as training others in how to use it.
- A high level of attention to detail is vital. The pages you create should have very few, if any errors.
- We aren’t looking for an SEO expert but a solid understanding of SEO principles is important and you should have a thorough understanding of on and off page SEO principles appropriate for content production.
- You must also be a good communicator, confident to communicate effectively with varying audiences and seniority.
- You will be able to train and mentor Interns, supporting them in the content production process.
- You will be expected to proactively seek out ways to complete tasks more effectively and efficiently. Providing solutions to management on how this can be improved for both you individually, and the wider Production Team.
- You will be able to demonstrate the ability to manage your own time effectively to ensure the required production requests are completed in a timely manner.
- Development skills are not a must but an awareness of technologies such as HTML, CSS and Javascript is advantageous.

**Perks**:

- Day off on the 3rd Friday of every month (one long weekend each month)
- Monthly Wellness Reimbursement Program to promote health well-being
- Monthly Office Commutation Reimbursement Program Paid paternity and maternity leaves

**Qualifications**

Any Degree