Managing Editor

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 14 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Legend

At Legend were building next-level player experiences. With 20 years of proven success were the worlds leading Sports and Gaming marketing company.

Our people are our edge. 600 sharp ambitious Legends across 22 countries who move fast learn quickly and win together. Here growth isnt a perk its the standard. Youll stretch level-up and carve out a career as bold as the products we build. We celebrate wins and create experiences that people talk about for years - for our players & for each other. If youre ready to shape the future of player experience and enjoy the ride while you do it this is where youll thrive.

Your path to legendary impact starts here.

Do you wake up Monday morning excited to deliver the highest possible content quality to your readers Are you motivated by continuously unlocking the potential of your team members Do you enjoy leading by example scaling setting the pace and being accountable for your market results

Join us as a Managing Editor!

Legend is hiring for Managing Editors due to growth. Youll be reporting directly to our Publishing Leadership. This roles will support our Content team to expand and optimise our growing sites across North America Europe and beyond. Youll 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 youll be -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.

In this role we value diverse perspectives and encourage you to apply even if you dont meet every qualification listed.

What Youll Positively Impact:

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.

What Makes You A Potential Legend:

We seek resourceful and kind self-starters who enjoy autonomy a dynamic environment and high accountability. Youll thrive here if youre always eager to learn value constructive feedback and are excited by big goals.

In terms of technical skills for the Managing Editor role you ideally bring:

A strong managerial toolkit understanding how to best lead your team members to unlock the most of their potential. Youll have significant experience managing other people managers this could look like having a few direct reports with a larger team of 6 plus.
An extensive track record of writing and editing high-quality content boosting user engagement and organic traffic for English-speaking markets.
Proven experience as a process builder - youll 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. More details here

You could settle for ordinary - or you could join us.

For this role as a Managing Editor you will have multiple chances to progress further with us over time.
We cant make any iron-clad promises as to timelines as more senior roles are unlocked by us reaching our organisational targets. But an example could include growing into a Head of Content role taking ownership of multiple markets through a team of Managing Editors.
Once youve finished onboarding we will make an IDP together helping you reach your long-term career ambitions.

Our Culture & Benefits:

We thrive from helping our team members grow their skills and careers. Its one of our biggest motivations as a company.
We regularly check in with our team and have strong employee engagement scores. Being #1 is only worth it if were having fun along the journey.
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 also have a long-term incentive plan so we can all share in the growth and success of Legend.
We offer generous annual leave including our company shutdown between Christmas and New Years 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!

Are you ready The steps to unlock the Legend in YOU.

Then your Legendary journey begins - for more information on the process please click here

Legend is an Equal Opportunity Employer but thats just the start. We believe different perspectives help us grow and achieve more. Thats why were dedicated to hiring and developing the most talented and diverse team- which includes individuals with different backgrounds abilities identities and experiences. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout your application process please speak to your Talent Partner or contact the team atemailprotected and well do all we can to support you.

About LegendAt Legend were building next-level player experiences. With 20 years of proven success were the worlds leading Sports and Gaming marketing company.Our people are our edge. 600 sharp ambitious Legends across 22 countries who move fast learn quickly and win together. Here growth isnt a per...