Remote Editor jobs – Full‑Time Senior Content Proofreader & Copy Revising Specialist (Remote) – Bangor, Maine – $65k‑$80k Salary – SEO‑Focused, CMS‑Experienced

TITLE: Remote Editor jobs – Full‑Time Senior Content Proofreader & Copy Revising Specialist (Remote) – Bangor, Maine – $65k‑$80k Salary – SEO‑Focused, CMS‑Experienced --- Who we are At Narrative Forge, we’ve spent the last three years turning a modest blog in Bangor, Maine into a multi‑channel publishing house that now reaches over 2 million monthly readers across the US and Canada. What started as a handful of freelance writers in a shared coworking space on Main Street has grown into a 45‑person content operation that now runs three distinct verticals—tech reviews, lifestyle features, and long‑form investigative pieces. Our editorial team sits in a virtual newsroom, but our culture is still rooted in the rhythms of Bangor, Maine: coffee‑break debates about headline tone, weekly “walk‑throughs” on the city’s river trail as a way to clear the mental slate, and an annual “Story Sprint” retreat at the historic downtown hotel. We’re at a inflection point. Our traffic has risen 34 % YoY, and our subscription model now contributes $1.2 M in recurring revenue. To keep that trajectory, we need a seasoned editor who can own the remote editing pipeline, ensure every piece meets our quality bar, and mentor a growing cohort of junior writers and contract proofreaders. This isn’t a generic “editor” posting; it’s the role that will shape the voice of Narrative Forge’s expanding portfolio for the next five years. Why this role exists now Over the past six months, our content volume has jumped from 3,200 to 4,500 published items—a 40 % surge driven by new brand partnerships and an aggressive SEO push. That means the average word count per article has risen from 850 to 1,200, and the turnaround time has tightened from a 72‑hour SLA to a 48‑hour “first‑pass” deadline. Our current senior editor is splitting time between copyediting, copy‑design, and strategic planning, creating a bottleneck that threatens both quality and speed. We need a dedicated Remote Editor who can: 1. Lead the end‑to‑end remote editing workflow for 1,200+ pieces per quarter. 2. Establish clear style guidelines that marry AP standards with our brand’s conversational tone. 3. Coach a distributed team of 12 freelance proofreaders and 4 junior in‑house editors to hit a 95 % on‑time delivery metric. If you’ve ever managed a high‑volume editing pipeline while keeping an eye on SEO signals, you’ll feel right at home. What you’ll do – day‑to‑day - Content reviser & proofreader – Perform line‑by‑line copyediting on articles ranging from 500‑2,500 words, tightening prose, correcting grammar, and ensuring factual accuracy. Expect to handle roughly 150 pieces per month, with peak weeks reaching 200. - Remote editing workflow architect – Own the editorial calendar in Asana, set up automation rules in Zapier that route drafts from Google Docs to our CMS, and maintain a live dashboard in Smartsheet that tracks each piece’s status against the 48‑hour SLA. - Style‑guide steward – Keep our living style guide in Notion up to date, weaving in SEO best practices from Ahrefs and SEMrush, and train the team on nuanced decisions like using Oxford commas in tech reviews but dropping them in lifestyle narratives. - Mentor & coach – Conduct weekly 30‑minute “Editing Clinics” via Zoom where junior editors bring a challenging paragraph and get live feedback. Over the next six months, you’ll help raise the junior team’s average edit‑time efficiency by at least 18 %. - Stakeholder liaison – Partner with the Head of Content Strategy to align editorial priorities with quarterly growth targets, and translate analytics from Google Analytics and Storyful into actionable copy tweaks. - SEO‑centric copy refinement – Use Screaming Frog and Yoast SEO plugins to verify keyword density, meta‑description length, and internal linking structures before a piece goes live. - Quality‑control champion – Run a random sample audit of 5 % of published articles each month, measuring readability (Flesch‑Kincaid scores) and error rate, and report findings to the VP of Editorial Operations. Who you are – the ideal match - Experience – Minimum 5 years of professional editing, preferably in a digital‑first environment. Experience with remote teams is a must; we’ve seen 80 % of our editors work from different time zones successfully. - Tools fluency – Daily use of Google Docs, Microsoft Word Track Changes, Adobe InCopy, WordPress (or similar CMS), Grammarly Business, AP Stylebook, Notion, Asana, Zapier, Smartsheet, Ahrefs, SEMrush, and basic HTML. You should feel comfortable toggling between a spreadsheet of SEO metrics and a manuscript with red‑line edits. - Metrics mindset – Ability to read and act on data: you’ll be expected to hit a 95 % on‑time delivery rate, reduce average edit turnaround from 3.2 hours to 2.6 hours, and maintain a sub‑0.5 % factual error rate across all published content. - Communication style – Clear, concise, and friendly. You’ll write feedback that feels like a colleague