Senior Content Marketer

Job Summary

The Senior Content Marketer will manage the educational blog for Mercury’s Stories, working closely with various teams to enhance content quality, reach, and business impact. Key responsibilities include content planning, writing, editing, and distribution.

About the Role

This role requires a sharp writer and editor with a proven track record of elevating content quality. Strong organizational skills and the ability to work effectively in a remote environment are essential.

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

• 8+ years working in content marketing, content strategy, editorial, or a related field.
• An exceptional writer and editor, with a track record of elevating the work of other writers through thoughtful feedback and high editorial standards.
• Proven success leading a blog, newsletter, publication, or similarly scaled editorial program.
• Comfortable managing freelancers, agencies, and other external contributors to deliver high-quality work at scale.
• A solid command of business, entrepreneurship, finance, or similar subject matter, with the ability to make it engaging and accessible.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

Mercury offers a comprehensive benefits package including base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits. Compensation ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry.

Pay

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry.

Schedule

Our schedule is flexible and we operate in a remote-first, async environment.