Content Editor - Digital Markets

About Gartner Digital Markets:

Gartner Digital Markets is a business unit within Gartner. Our mission is to help small businesses make the right technology decisions and find the tools they need to grow, optimize, and become more effective at what they do. The business is comprised of three leading brands—Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp. For candidates interested in taking their next career step in the technology space, Gartner Digital Markets offers the fast pace and excitement of working for a startup, the stability and resources of a large, established organization, and the opportunity to be on the front lines of innovation in an industry that is always growing and transforming. 

Job Brief: 

We’re looking for an experienced content editor to join our digital content team. 

What You Will Do: 

• Edit articles, blog posts, research reports and other written content created by Content Writers/Analysts/Researchers for overall writing quality, flow and tone to ensure it is consistent with our brand and audience, as well as for sentence structure, accuracy and grammar/punctuation. 

• Push the team to write content that is conversational and engaging. Even though we cover complex technological concepts, the content needs to be easily consumable, understandable and actionable for our readers.  

• Proactively identify common issues in the Writers’/Analysts’ work that detract from quality, consistency or accuracy and provide this feedback in a clear, constructive and collaborative way to ensure mistakes are not repeated. Look for ways to continually increase the quality of all written content. Participate in review sessions with content authors to deliver constructive feedback.

• Proactively search for solutions to common bottlenecks to increase overall content production efficiency as the team continues to scale and more content is produced.

• Develop a deep and wide understanding about the business software and technology space in order to be able to verify and challenge the assumptions and opinions in Writers’/Analysts’ content. 

• Assist with uploading and publishing edited content on our blog, as needed. 

• Demonstrate complete ownership of assignments with exceptional time and task management.

What You Will Need: 

• Minimum three years of experience editing technical web content—preferably a mix of in-depth research reports, news articles and blog posts

• Experience working with various writers/writing styles

• Experience working with non-native English-speaking writers

• Strong writing and exceptional proofreading skills

• Experience editing content about software and or/digital content marketing experience is a huge plus

• Ability to provide feedback to writers in a constructive and collaborative way

• Experience with content management systems (CMSs), e.g., WordPress, Contentful, is a plus

Who We Are: 

• Action Oriented - Deliver fast, get great results. We embrace the vision, roadmap to success and the action it takes to make it happen. 

• Intellectually Curious - Seek to learn, love to teach. We’re humble and embrace respectful, radical candor with a mindset of ongoing professional and personal development.

• Collaborative - One team, shared mission. We welcome feedback and understand the value of working together to accomplish more than what is possible individually.

What We Offer:

• Limitless career development and learning opportunities.

• A collaborative and positive culture — Your team will be as smart and driven as you.

• Outstanding compensation — Plus competitive benefits and generous time off.

• A chance to make an impact — Your work will contribute directly to our strategy.

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Who are we? 

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 20,000