Senior Editor - Automation & Content Optimization
About The Position
Chewy is seeking a Senior Editor, Automation & Content Optimization to help shape the future of its editorial content across PetMD and Chewy Education. This role is at the intersection of editorial excellence, data-driven decision-making, and emerging AI capabilities. The Senior Editor will play a critical role in ensuring pet health and educational content is timely, discoverable, and optimized for performance across web, email, and social channels. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced editor who thrives in a fast-paced publishing environment, embraces new technologies, and knows how to turn insights into action.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in digital publishing, editorial, or content strategy, ideally within health, lifestyle, or e-commerce environments.
- Highly comfortable working with SEO best practices, including keyword strategy, on-page optimization, and performance analysis.
- Hands-on experience with AI tools (e.g., content optimization platforms, generative AI, automation workflows) and understand how to apply them responsibly in an editorial setting.
- A process orientation and product mindset to the content space.
- Data-driven and comfortable using analytics tools to inform decisions.
- Proven ability to move quickly and prioritize effectively, especially in response to real-time traffic or performance changes.
- Understand how content behaves across multiple channels, including organic search, email newsletters, and social media platforms.
- Detail-oriented, with strong editing skills and a commitment to accuracy and clarity.
- Collaborative and communicative, able to work cross-functionally with editorial, SEO, product, and marketing teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with health or veterinary content.
- Familiarity with content management systems and large-scale content libraries.
- Experience building or refining automated editorial processes.
- Understanding of E-E-A-T principles and content quality standards in regulated or trust-sensitive categories.
Responsibilities
- Lead optimization efforts across a large library of pet health and educational content, improving performance in search, email engagement, social distribution, and referral optimization.
- Partner with SEO, analytics, and marketing teams to identify opportunities and respond quickly to changes.
- Work closely with product teams and engineering to build AI-powered tools to streamline workflows, identify optimization opportunities, and enhance editorial output.
- Help develop and reinforce high quality standards that center human expertise in the context of an AI-enabled work flow.
- Optimize articles, headlines, metadata, formatting, and content structure for SEO, engagement, and conversion to product sales.
- Collaborate with social and email teams to adapt editorial content for multi-channel distribution.
- Balance speed and quality, ensuring content updates are accurate, brand-aligned, and trustworthy.
Benefits
- 401k
- new hire and annual equity grant
- medical/Rx insurance
- vision insurance
- dental insurance
- life insurance
- disability insurance
- hospital indemnity insurance
- critical illness insurance
- accident insurance
- parental leave
- family services benefits
- backup dependent care
- flexible spending accounts
- telemedicine
- pet adoption reimbursement
- employee assistance program
- 10% off pet insurance
- 20% off at Chewy.com
- unlimited PTO (subject to manager approval)
- six paid holidays per year
- paid sick and family leave (in compliance with applicable state and local regulations)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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