Senior Content Marketer

About the role

The Senior Content Marketer will manage Mercury’s educational blog, working closely with various teams to ensure high-quality, impactful content. Key responsibilities include writing, editing, and distributing content, managing freelancers, and leveraging data to improve content performance.

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day operation of Mercury’s educational blog, from content planning through assignment, editing, publishing, and ongoing optimization.
• Write, edit, and package exceptional, performant content across blogs, newsletters, campaigns, and other strategic initiatives.
• Manage freelancers and agency partners with thoughtful stewardship and grace to help scale the work while meeting or surpassing the quality bar.
• Partner with SEO/AEO, Product Marketing, Communications, Design, and other teams to identify opportunities and maximize the reach and impact of our content.
• Proactively use performance data and audience insights to identify growth strategies, improve content performance, and help the team make smarter editorial investments.
• Leverage AI and modern content tools to improve research, editing, and production workflows.

Requirements

• A sharp writer and editor with a knack for turning complex topics into content people actually want to read and engage with.
• An audience-first marketer who balances creativity, craft, and data to make smart and high-impact decisions.
• Deeply curious about business, entrepreneurship, finance, and what founders and builders need to successfully build and operate ambitious companies.
• Always learning, whether it's new technologies, evolving media formats, or how audiences discover information.
• Comfortable bringing clarity to ambiguity, collaborating across disciplines, and raising the quality of the work around you.
• A self-directed program-builder who thrives in remote-first, async environments and brings structure and scalability to shared work.

Qualifications

• 8+ years working in content marketing, content strategy, editorial, or a related field.
• A solid command of business, entrepreneurship, finance, or similar subject matter, with the ability to make it engaging and accessible.
• Award-winning portfolio showcasing exceptional writing and editing skills.
• Strong editorial judgment paired with a thoughtful marketing mindset — you care as much about who sees the work as the quality of the work itself.

Skills

• Exceptional writing and editing skills.
• Experience managing a blog, newsletter, publication, or similarly scaled editorial program.
• Comfortable managing freelancers, agencies, and other external contributors to deliver high-quality work at scale.
• Ability to leverage performance data and audience insights to improve content performance.
• Knowledge of AI and modern content tools to improve research, editing, and production workflows.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
• Flexible work arrangements and remote-first culture.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Pay

• New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
• Target new hire base salary ranges for this role are as follows:
• US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $158,200 - 197,800
• US employees outside of the New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle or the San Francisco Bay Area: $142,400 - 178,000
• CBC employees (any location): 149,500 CAD - 186,900 CAD

Schedule

• Mercury operates in a flexible, remote-first environment.