Editorial Manager, Real Estate

About the role

We’re looking for a sharp, strategic Editorial Manager to lead the creation of content that educates and informs homebuyers and sellers, while building authority and driving press coverage for Movoto.com, a leading real estate portal. In this role, you’ll drive the supporting content strategy that complements our core organic growth, reaching millions of monthly organic visitors through SEO and Answer Engine Optimization. You’ll focus on building content around real estate trends, housing data, and moving insights, while owning our content calendar and ensuring we consistently publish timely, relevant, and high-impact content that reinforces our expertise in real estate.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute our supporting content roadmap, focused on reinforcing our real estate expertise, building authority and visibility, and complementing organic growth driven by our core marketplace, through both Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
• Research, write, and edit high-quality long-form and short-form content across various formats, including original studies, blog posts, landing pages, real estate trend reports, city guides, and more
• Collaborate with SEO, engineering, design, and subject matter experts to bring content ideas to life
• Build a network of real estate experts from internal partners to external contributors to curate insights and advice that showcase our expertise to users
• Edit content from contributors and cross-functional partners for quality, clarity, and optimization
• Become a subject matter expert in all things real estate-related, including housing market trends, homebuying, selling, and moving, through independent research and ongoing training
• Contribute to external thought leadership content as needed, establishing yourself as a trusted voice in the real estate industry
• Maintain and evolve our editorial voice, ensuring consistency across our website and marketing channels
• Use data and SEO tools to identify content opportunities that support and enhance our core marketplace pages, and measure performance
• Implement and refine content workflows, editorial guidelines, and QA processes
• Stay up to date with search algorithm updates and rapidly evolving trends in large language models (LLMs)

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional writing and editing experience, ideally in B2C content, real estate, or marketplaces
• Proven ability to create content that drives traffic, engagement, and conversions
• Deep understanding of SEO best practices and experience with tools like Ahrefs, SEMrush, or Clearscope
• Strong editing skills and a keen eye for grammar, structure, and storytelling
• Comfortable juggling multiple projects and deadlines in a collaborative, fast-moving environment
• Experience writing for the web, optimizing for search engines, and understanding how content performs
• Passionate about helping people make smarter home-buying, selling, and moving decisions

Qualifications

• Real estate and/or mortgage experience
• Experience with optimizing content for generative AI tools

Benefits

• You’ll be surrounded by talented, dedicated people who believe in the company’s mission
• Opportunity to shape the content strategy for a fast-growing real estate marketplace operating at massive scale
• Join a locally and nationally recognized best place to work that values promotion from within
• Opportunity for professional growth and development