Senior Content Editor

Senior Content Editor

Freelance · Onsite Houston · Reports to Content Team Lead

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Content Editor to support a fast-paced content studio.This hands-on, player-coach role combines original writing, editorial leadership, and quality assurance across internal and external communications.

You will help shape clear, compelling, and brand-consistent content across editorial, social, email, web, executive communications, and multimedia channels. You will also mentor a small team of Content Editors, providing thoughtful feedback and helping elevate editorial standards across every assignment.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and review the work of two Content Editors.

• Ensure copy meets high standards for structure, clarity, accuracy, tone, and brand consistency before publication.

• Write original copy from briefs, outlines, scripts, and stakeholder talking points.

• Edit and refine long-form, short-form, social, email, web, and executive communications.

• Serve as a senior editorial resource for brand voice, style, and content-quality decisions.

• Provide substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, and final quality checks.

• Create and adapt headlines, captions, social copy, and short-form storytelling for varied audiences and platforms.

• Partner closely with writers, designers, content creators, and studio leadership to deliver cohesive stories.

• Support scripts and copy for video and other multimedia content.

• Incorporate stakeholder, legal, compliance, and review feedback while maintaining content clarity and integrity.

• Manage a mix of planned assignments and quick-turn requests in a collaborative production environment.

What You Bring

• 3–6 years of hands-on experience in writing, editing, editorial, social content, communications, journalism, or a related field.

• Experience in an agency, corporate creative studio, newsroom, or comparable content-focused environment.

• Demonstrated ability to write original content from a brief, outline, script, or set of talking points.

• Strong editing, proofreading, storytelling, grammar, and style skills across multiple formats.

• Experience mentoring, leading, or informally guiding writers and editors.

• Sound judgment when applying brand voice, editorial standards, and style guidelines.

• Experience creating and editing content for social media, with awareness of platform-specific formats and audiences.

• Ability to balance hands-on production work with review and coaching responsibilities.

• Collaborative communication style and comfort working independently in an integrated creative team.

• Experience with video scripts or multimedia copy is a plus.

Work Environment

This freelance opportunity supports a collaborative content team serving an exciting corporation. The role may be performed remotely or from Houston, depending on project needs.