Austin City Content Writer
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 is an engagement for 40 articles and requires the writer to be located in Austin, TX.
Requirements
- Located in Austin, TX
- 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
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
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
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