Description review

Managing Editor (Freelance)

Contently · United States · back to the listing

HR standards

63/100

needs work

Title ↔ description

87/100

strong

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Unclear

no confident match

What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

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Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

A Contently Managing Editor is responsible for supervising and coordinating a team of freelance journalists to manage the timely delivery of quality content for client projects. The Managing Editor provides updates to the Account Manager as a freelance editor assigned to projects w/ monthly, weekly, or daily assignments. The Managing Editor is responsible for maintaining strict quality and style standards; managing assignments and the editorial calendar; and coordinating communication between the Clients (Publishers) and writers.

Contently maintains strict quality standards and relies on the Managing Editor to control the quality of content, request revisions from freelance journalists and make staff changes when required. As such, the Managing Editors success is judged primarily on the quality of the content.

The position is freelance, performed remotely, typically range from 5 hours to 20 hours per week. Pay is competitive.

Contently Managing Editor tasks include

• Bring big ideas to the table

• Help the clients and journalists generate new pitches

• Assign articles

• Prepare, rewrite and edit copy to improve readability

• Detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax

• Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources

• Ensure compliance to the publication's style, editorial policy, and publishing requirements

• File brief stories and blog posts when necessary

Contently Managing Editors should have experience hiring and managing freelance journalists; assigning news and feature articles for a monthly, weekly, or daily publication; fact checking and editing news copy; editing for publication style.

The position is freelance, performed remotely, and can range from 4 hours to 20 hours per week. Pay is competitive.

If interested, apply online at Contently.com/jobs.

About Contently

Contently ( a venture-backed startup in New York City, empowers brands and journalists to connect and tell stories. Our solution combines the largest network of vetted, ready-to-work journalists with a workflow platform designed to help brands more efficiently manage their content programs. Clients currently include some of the world's largest brands, agencies and media companies.

Originally posted on Himalayas

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 16 points (from 79 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.