Content Manager

The Content Manager position is vital to the success of our company, working within the marketing department to coordinate, produce, and edit content for Empire Flippers. You will need to have strong written and editorial skills, with the ability to produce your own content while also maintaining voice and quality assurance working with other writers.

It’s important to have a basic understanding of SEO and social media marketing principles so you can write content optimized for both. Your job will consist of reading, collecting, and sculpturing data to create engaging pieces of story-driven content.

Overall, the content manager position is a creative growth function for the brand with the goal to increase lead nurturing at every single level of the marketing funnel using content. We want you to be comfortable collaborating within a team and also comfortable managing several different writers and projects at once.

Here’s a look at some of the tasks and processes you’ll be responsible for:

• Outreach to off-site publications and websites with a goal of creating 1 in-depth industry-related blog post per month.
• Managing content flow from outsourced content agencies with the goal of scaling to 10 pieces of content published per month from the agencies
• Optimizing content with best on-page SEO industry practices
• Monitoring mentions and backlinks across the web for potential content opportunities.
• Creating and managing on-going Q&A databases (Quora, Reddit, Facebook groups etc.), including writing answers to be published under DM and CMO’s name.
• Managing and improving the on-going editorial calendar, including writing two in-depth blog posts per month as part of the editorial calendar

We believe in hiring people that are a good fit for us culturally.

A good fit is actually more important to us than the skill set since we will teach you everything you need to know.

You need to have immaculate attention to detail. We need to hear you grunting and moaning if a word or grammatical structure doesn’t quite look or feel right, as you’ll be creating two pieces of in-depth written content per month to be published on the blog. Writing, editing and proofreading is a large part of this role for all content being produced.

Be a good communicator. It sounds very cliche, but you’ll be brainstorming with team members in other departments, developing and collaborating on overall content strategy for both short-term and long-term goals and creating new content ideas. It is absolutely crucial you can take honest, constructive criticism and feedback. It is common for everyone in marketing to to work on a single goal together, delivering different portions of that goal, so it is also critical to approach everything with a focus on achieving the team’s overall goals rather than just personal goals. That being said, we are quite flexible in goals and do allow our team to pursue goals they think can benefit Empire Flippers once they’re up to speed.

Be a self-starter. We need to see some evidence that you’re able to get up every morning, bite the bullet and just get on with it, even if you’ve tried four coffee shops and none have decent WiFi. You won’t have eyes looking over your shoulder on a day to day basis, you’ll be working in almost full autonomy, we’ll need to trust you to deliver the goods. In a nutshell: you must be highly motivated, goal-driven and coachable.

The following skills/experience would be a bonus:

• A deep understanding of crafting written, story-driven content marketing pieces
• Strong emphasis on editing skills across various writing styles to ensure overall brand messaging remains top of mind
• Basic to intermediate social media knowledge
• Basic to intermediate SEO knowledge
• Basic to intermediate email marketing automation knowledge

Our company culture is built on the idea of travel and remote work.

We’re not looking to put you in a cubicle and waste your time in traffic. You’ll be working hard, playing hard, and learning all about our company and what we stand for during this time.

Apart from meeting us in person every now and then, you’re free to work and live anywhere you’d like and join the new class of digital nomads – we’re homeless but have a passport, credit card, and a laptop.

This isn’t a gap year experience. This is not a temporary contract.

If you’re applying just because you want something to fund your travels before you start seeking out a “serious” job, then you probably shouldn’t apply.

We’re looking for career-minded people who share our vision and see where we’re going. We want you to be part of that vision and help us get there over the long haul.

And while we play hard and sometimes really do work next to the pool all day, we work even harder. Sometimes you will be putting in a 10-12 hour day as business demands arise. You’ll be working weird hours to match other team members time zones, and you’ll sometimes have to face some critical feedback.

You will be expected to perform to our expectations and really help us grow our business to the next level. We’re counting on you.

When you first start off, you will fly to Saigon, Vietnam. You will need to pay your way to Saigon, but once there, you’ll receive a $700/month housing allowance and $2,000 monthly salary for the first six months. During this period, your role will be probationary and your training and performance will be evaluated. After six months you will be able to enter into our compensation plan.

You can expect to be making between $30 – 35K in salary in the first year with advancement opportunities in the second. This kind of salary is enough to live a high-quality life (within reason) in Southeast Asia. We also offer international healthcare coverage as long as you’re outside of the USA that you will receive once you’re out of the probationary period. We offer a stellar unlimited vacation policy as well.

We’re going to start you off slow. You’ll first learn about our company and what each department does; then you will be given some low-level tasks to ease you into the position. Over time, your skills will grow and you’ll be making a lot of decisions on your own. However, you will always have our support and knowledge to lean on. We aren’t going to throw you to the wolves — you’ll be part of a high-functioning team that is here to help you every step of the way.

After those first three to six months, you’ll be location-independent and able to work from anywhere you want — as long as that place has a good Wifi connection, of course.

Our Director of Marketing and CMO will be reviewing every application. If we think you’re a good fit, we will reach out to you to do a video call interview. After the first interviews are done, our final candidates will be brought back for a final second interview before we make our decision.

If this all sounds overwhelming yet exciting to you, then apply! You might be surprised how perfect you are for this role.