Managing Editor
Legend is hiring a Managing Editor due to growth. You’ll be reporting directly to our Publishing Leadership. This role will support our Content team to expand and optimise our growing sites across North America, Europe and beyond. You'll be working on English-language markets. You will lead a world-class team of a couple of highly specialised Content Managers, overseeing a larger team of skilled editors[circa 10]. Some of these teams are established, and some you’ll be building. Co-own the content journey of thousands of users and build a long-term, sustainable strategy that keeps us ahead of the competition. Help our users. Grow your career. Win.
- Full ownership of content quality across your markets.
- Mentoring, nurturing and coaching your team to drive their performance, ensuring they deliver at pace and to standard.
- KPI tracking and accountability, embedding metrics into daily work.
- Operational excellence in task planning, commitments, and OKRs.
- Workflow optimisations, including BAU streams, AI opportunities, and content freshness strategies.
- Work closely with our Content Managers to ensure Best In Class content is shipped, this could be through developing SEO guides, aligning best practices or getting hands-on to suggest improvements.
- A strong managerial toolkit, understanding how to best lead your team members to unlock the most of their potential.
- You’ll have experience coaching, developing, mentoring and leading others development plans.
- An extensive track record of writing and editing high-quality content, boosting user engagement and organic traffic for English-speaking markets.
- Additional languages, especially German, would be especially helpful.
- Proven experience as a process builder - you’ll have set up new guidelines and processes to help drive team performance.
- Ideally, using AI and automation to ship quality content at velocity.
- Demonstrable experience of using SEO tools [like SEMRush, AHREFS] and Content Performance tools [like GA4] to boost user engagement and organic traffic.
- We offer flexible working hours. Our core hours are from 10 am to 3 pm your local time.
- We benchmark our compensation packages annually which tells us what the market is paying. When we say we offer a “competitive package,” we mean it.
- We offer generous annual leave, including our company shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s, birthdays, volunteer and life event days.
- We host exciting global Legend events, where we unite in person to ignite our shared passion and unveil the exciting strategies for the year ahead!
- Once you’ve finished onboarding, we will make an IDP together, helping you reach your long-term career ambitions.
Welcome to Legend, the home of next-level player experience. We're pioneering the way that people, explore, play and bet on what they love. The engine behind 25+ world-class brands in Sports & Gaming. Join a 800+ global team, across 10 global hubs, confidently growing world-leading brands. Driven by data, creativity and collaboration, we move fast, learn constantly and deliver excellence at scale. Our formula to becoming the ‘MVP’ in Sports & Gaming = Mindset. Vision. Performance. Legend is a place where high-performers thrive. Where we win as one and celebrate together. If you're ready to raise the bar, we want to meet you.
