Austin City Content Writer

Compose.ly • Austin, TX

5d

About The Position

Support the expansion of the client’s flagship brand by producing structured, research-driven Austin, TX city landing pages and neighborhood content that guides users through the “living in” and “moving to” journey, with future expansion into travel-focused content. This writer needs to be a local to Austin, TX. The selected writer will produce highly structured, thorough, SEO-aligned content that provides comprehensive city landing page overviews with compelling quality of life reasons to consider relocating to the city, produces bucket-list-style “Things to Do” landing pages, develops “Best Neighborhoods” list-style landing pages, and creates individual neighborhood deep dives articles. The ideal writer understands structured content development (outline-driven writing), search intent, and fact-checking best practices. They must be capable of producing content that requires minimal editorial revision. Content should focus on the positive attributes of a place while maintaining third-party neutrality, particularly important given downstream real estate monetization opportunities. Neighborhood content should avoid “steering,” a heavily regulated real estate specific term. Any geographic data points should originate from the client's data set. This role involves writing approximately 40 articles located in Austin, TX.

Requirements

• Strong background in structured/outline-driven writing
• Experience in destination, travel, relocation, or lifestyle content
• SEO strategy and search intent expertise
• Strong research and fact-checking methodology
• Ability to distinguish evergreen institutions from short-term trends
• Familiarity with AI-assisted research tools (hybrid workflow acceptable)
• Ability to write with minimal editorial oversight
• Experience writing high-engagement long-form content
• Must be a local to Austin, TX

Nice To Haves

• Experience developing content funnels
• Familiarity with real estate or relocation-related content ecosystems
• Experience incorporating quoted sources/interviews

Responsibilities

• Develop structured outlines prior to drafting
• Write comprehensive city landing pages optimized for keywords: Living In and Moving To
• Produce “Best Neighborhoods” overview articles
• Write individual deep-dive neighborhood profiles
• Create evergreen “must-do” bucket list content
• Conduct traditional and AI-assisted research
• Cross-reference local publications, reviews, and established sources
• Fact-check all data thoroughly
• Identify enduring attractions vs. temporary trends
• Ensure content depth supports strong engagement time
• Incorporate SEO best practices and search-intent alignment
• Maintain third-party editorial neutrality (no realtor influence)
• Participate in strategy discussions as needed
• Conduct short interview for local quotes

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed