Senior Legal Content Editor - Abogado.com

We are looking for a Senior Legal Content Editor to lead content strategy for Abogado.com,

a leading Spanish-language legal information website. This position manages the creation and optimization of articles, blog posts, videos, and other content, including assigning and overseeing the work of full-time and contract editors and writers. This position is a hybrid role based in our Eagan, Minnesota, office. This is a full-time position.

About the Role

In this role of Senior Legal Content Editor for Abogado.com, you will: 

• Own the content strategy for Abogado.com and best practices for Spanish-language legal content
• Lead the development, optimization, and publication of Spanish language content for Abogado.com, including managing content calendars
• Assign content creation duties to appropriate team members and monitor performance and output
• Edit Spanish language informational content to help Abogado.com users find answers to their legal questions. Topics include family law, criminal law, personal injury, immigration and many other areas of law.
• Edit Spanish language content for legal accuracy, style, grammar, punctuation, and spelling
• Train and coach employees and contractors; manage contractors with support from manager
• Collaborate with internal partners to optimize content performance and support overall business goals
• Report on the success of content and projects to manager and leadership
• Lead meetings for Abogado.com team members and partners
• Optimize content using best practices in tagging, keyword usage, title creation, content optimization, and basic SEO. Train team members on content optimization strategies as needed.

About You

We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills:

• Spanish language fluency, both written and spoken
• Professional editing experience in the Spanish language
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (required); JD or equivalent (preferred)
• Experience managing content for a major online publication or website
• Legal practice experience, paralegal experience or experience writing about legal issues highly desired
• Ability to write and editor content in a conversational, consumer-friendly tone, and a demonstrated ability to successfully write for the web
• Working knowledge of SEO best practices
• Working knowledge of major social media platforms and best practices
• A demonstrated ease in learning and adapting to new and complex technology
• Ability to work independently, including editing the work of others, prior to publication
• Experience providing constructive guidance to writers and a demonstrated ability to improve team member skills through ongoing coaching and feedback
• Experience working under tight deadlines

Please submit:

• Resume/online application
• Cover letter describing why you are interested in this position

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Govern