PCGamesN strives to be the one-stop destination for PC gaming guides. If you enjoy helping your fellow gamers conquer challenges, can break down complex guidance in clear and entertaining ways, and have a cutting-edge knowledge of SEO, we want to hear from you.
Alongside defining our SEO best practices and maintaining adherence to them, the successful candidate will work with the Deputy Guides Editor and Editor on our long-term guides strategy. You’ll need to identify potential new trending games, construct content plans for them, and work collaboratively with the team to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of your plans. You’ll also understand the importance of preserving our existing guides, and be able to fine-tune processes to ensure their regular maintenance.
You’ll also lead a team of talented, lovely writers. Keeping them happy and motivated is very important to us, so you’ll need to be comfortable as a people manager. All of our section editors are also responsible for quality standards within their teams, so you’ll need to be a skilled writer and editor, with a keen attention to detail.
About the job
- Role: Guides Editor, PCGamesN
- Location: Fully remote (within the UK only) or hybrid in Bath, UK
- Closing Date: March 5, 2025 (we reserve the right to close this advert early if a sufficient number of applications has been received)
- Type: Full-time, permanent
- Salary: £37,000
- 28 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Apply here
You will be responsible for
- Managing our talented guides team, and providing an inclusive, engaging, and supportive environment for them to thrive in
- Conducting regular 1:1 meetings with the team, and addressing any conduct or performance issues
- Maintaining and improving awareness of SEO best practices and applying these to the team’s work to grow our traffic from search
- Monitoring all opportunities to produce new guide content, including in-game challenges, patch updates, and future releases both imminent and distant, producing thorough content plans in good time, and ensuring their delivery
- Ideating, writing, editing, and updating guides
- Tracking the performance of our guides and organizing their updates as needed
- Maintaining good portfolio hygiene by deprioritising guides that no longer add value
- Keeping abreast of current news and trends in online publishing, particularly SEO
- Working with the News Editor, Hardware Editor, and Editor to coordinate content around product and game launches
- Using monitoring and reporting tools (e.g. Google Trends, SE Ranking) to identify potential wins, as well as mitigate against ranking losses
- Building and maintaining good content pyramids
- Using Google, Reddit, and gaming communities to identify and suggest ideas that could lead to new guides and other article types
- Occasionally attending press trips, writing previews and reviews, and pitching op-ed ideas to the Editor
- Keeping our in-house reporting and workflow tools (e.g. Asana, Google Calendar, SE ranking) organized and up to date
- Other tasks as requested by the Editor or Publishing Director
You will have/be/be able to
- Practical and theoretical understanding of search engine optimization and best practices in publishing search-targeted content
- Experience in planning and writing guides and evergreen content for videogames
- Skilled in organizing and prioritizing workflow, balancing updates and new guides production evenly and fairly among the team
- An interest in PC games and prior knowledge of them
- Plan and prioritize own workload to meet agreed deadlines
- Check for errors to ensure work is delivered to a high standard first time
- Adapt to changing circumstances while maintaining a positive outlook
- Work with others in a professional and respectful manner
- Apply expertise; use company tools and technology to achieve work objectives
- Must be able to produce proof of right to work in the UK by the start of employment
If this sounds like the perfect job for you, be sure to send over your cover letter and CV via this link. Good luck!