Senior Content Marketer, SEO

Headquarters: San Diego, California URL: https://animalz.co We're looking for a Senior Content Marketer: an exceptional writer with the editorial judgment to own content quality for the customers they serve. This is a writing-first role. About 70% of your time will be spent researching and writing content yourself—work that calls for real research, original thinking, and craft. On the SEO team, that writing is built to perform in search: blog posts, guides, and landing pages that satisfy search intent and still read like something a person wanted to write. Search itself is changing, and this role sits right in the middle of that change. Alongside traditional rankings, you'll help customer content get found and cited by AI search tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews. The rest of your time goes to making sure everything else your accounts publish is just as good as what you write. You'll manage the freelance writers who contribute to your accounts, keep the content calendar on track, review every piece before it reaches the customer, and ensure customer feedback is acted on and remembered. You won't do any of this alone. Every account is served by a small team, and you'll work alongside teammates who own the overall strategy and the customer relationship. Your ownership is the content itself: writing much of it, and standing behind all of it. What You'll Do Write high-quality content designed to rank , weaving keyword research, search intent, and on-page best practices into genuinely good writing, grounded in a real understanding of each customer's product and audience Review every piece your accounts deliver before it reaches the customer, whether you wrote it, a freelancer wrote it, or it started as an AI-assisted draft. (Note: we have separate Editors who edit pieces in production for feedback. Your role is the final review) Refresh and optimize existing content to improve rankings , engagement, and visibility, in both traditional search and AI-powered discovery Diagnose why a piece isn't performing , using tools like GA4, Google Search Console, and Ahrefs, and recommend clear, prioritized improvements Help manage the freelance writers on your accounts , write briefs they can succeed with, and maintain customer brand guides and other assets for reference. Act on customer feedback quickly and thoroughly , and keep track of it, so a customer never has to give the same note twice Communicate directly with customers about deliverables , timelines, and revisions, and join customer calls as a trusted voice on the work Help improve our AI-assisted content workflows by using them on real work and feeding back what you learn Contribute to performance reporting , helping show customers what shipped, how it's performing, and what we're learning Use AI tools thoughtfully, taking advantage of them where they genuinely help, and applying your own judgment and craft where they don't Contribute to team knowledge-sharing and internal initiatives , learning from teammates and sharing what you know What We're Looking For 4–6 years of experience in content marketing , with at least 2 of those years in B2B SaaS. Agency experience can be a plus Exceptional writing ability : You're first and foremost a writer. You produce publication-ready content with minimal revisions, writing with clarity, precision, and strategic insight, and you adapt your voice to different brands while keeping your standards high Strong editorial judgment : You can read someone else's draft, explain clearly why it does or doesn't work. You catch quality problems before customers do Deep SEO knowledge: You're fluent in keyword research, on-page optimization, content audits, and competitive analysis, and you can diagnose why a piece isn't ranking and what to do about it Growing AEO fluency: You understand how AI-driven search is changing content visibility, and you're actively building hands-on skills in making content surface well in AI tools Familiarity