Remote | Content Marketing Manager — $50–$90/hour

24-Mag•New York, NY

3d•Remote

About The Position

We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced content marketing professionals with hands-on expertise in editorial strategy, content research, production, optimisation, analytics, and quality assurance. This role focuses on designing and evaluating realistic content marketing environments that reflect the tools, workflows, data, and judgement calls encountered in professional marketing teams. Selected experts will create authentic scenarios, define expected outcomes, review completed work, and establish standards that distinguish strong content marketing judgement from plausible but ineffective approaches.

Requirements

Hands-on professional experience in content marketing
Experience personally owning an editorial programme end to end, rather than solely managing teams responsible for execution
Strong understanding of content research, editorial strategy, production, optimisation, QA, and content auditing
Comfortable working with a CMS such as Contentful
Experience interpreting performance data through Google Analytics 4
Comfortable using research and SEO tools such as Semrush
Strong ability to prioritise content opportunities using research and performance information
Clear written reasoning and ability to explain why a content decision is effective or ineffective
Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, or other third party

Nice To Haves

Prior experience developing AI training environments, reinforcement-learning environments, or simulated business case studies is strongly preferred
Rubric Academy or Rubric Bootcamp certification is strongly preferred
Comfortable working independently with structured evaluation frameworks and project guidelines

Responsibilities

Develop realistic tasks based on content marketing work you have personally performed
Define the underlying marketing issue and the decision a strong practitioner should reach
Create scenarios involving incomplete, conflicting, or messy information
Ensure tasks require genuine professional judgement rather than simple information retrieval
Design challenges that reflect real-world editorial and content marketing workflows
Develop and evaluate scenarios involving topic research and content discovery
Review audience, competitor, search, and performance information
Assess whether research supports proposed content opportunities
Identify weak assumptions, overlooked evidence, or poorly supported recommendations
Evaluate research findings for relevance and practical usefulness
Review content calendars, editorial plans, and prioritisation decisions
Assess topic selection against audience needs and marketing objectives
Evaluate trade-offs between competing content opportunities
Identify gaps in editorial coverage or ineffective prioritisation
Apply hands-on judgement from managing end-to-end editorial programmes
Develop and assess workflows involving creation and publication of marketing content
Review briefs, drafts, supporting research, and production requirements
Evaluate whether content appropriately reflects its intended audience and objective
Identify gaps affecting clarity, usefulness, consistency, or execution
Assess proposed production approaches for practical feasibility
Review existing content for accuracy, consistency, relevance, and quality
Identify outdated, duplicated, incomplete, or underperforming content
Evaluate whether materials meet established editorial standards
Assess recommendations for updating, consolidating, improving, or retiring content
Review content portfolios for quality and strategic coherence
Evaluate content opportunities using search and performance data
Review keyword, competitor, traffic, and audience information where relevant
Assess whether proposed optimisation decisions are supported by available evidence
Identify misleading interpretations or missed opportunities
Evaluate recommendations using practical content marketing judgement
Work with workflows modelled on a CMS such as Contentful
Review performance information using Google Analytics 4
Work with research and search tools such as Semrush
Assess content performance across relevant dashboards and data sources
Reconcile information across publishing, analytics, and research systems
Work with simulated environments containing realistic email, storage, CRM, project management, social media management, web analytics, SEO/AEO, advertising, CMS, product analytics, and customer-support information
Specify the documents, dashboards, personas, and tool states required for authentic content marketing scenarios
Evaluate multi-step workflows spanning several marketing systems
Identify missed dependencies, inconsistencies, or execution failures
Assess whether proposed actions appropriately reflect available information
Write or review reference solutions for content marketing scenarios
Define clear criteria separating strong professional responses from plausible but incorrect ones
Establish standards for research, prioritisation, production, QA, and content judgement
Explain why particular decisions are stronger or weaker
Ensure evaluation criteria reflect realistic content marketing practice
Review completed scenarios and evaluate proposed content marketing decisions
Assess diagnostic reasoning, prioritisation, trade-offs, planning, execution, and reporting
Evaluate work spanning multiple marketing tools and information sources
Identify missed issues, incorrect interpretations, or weak recommendations
Provide clear written reasoning supporting evaluation decisions