Owns the content engine behind organic search across every property — the brief-to-publish pipeline, quality bar and production throughput. Sits between SEO strategy and editorial execution.
Key responsibilities
- Own the SEO content calendar across Ethos, Lifestyle, Second Movement and Hour Studio.
- Turn keyword and gap analysis into briefs writers can execute against — intent, structure, entity coverage, internal links and commercial angle.
- Manage a mixed pool of in-house, freelance and agency writers to a monthly publishing target without letting quality slip.
- Own on-page optimisation of new and existing pages: titles, metas, headings, schema and internal linking.
- Run the content refresh programme — identify decaying pages and rebuild them before traffic is lost.
- Build content that AI answer engines can cite: clear structure, defensible facts, genuine expertise signals and correct entity markup.
- Uphold E-E-A-T on a category where product knowledge is scrutinised — horological accuracy matters, and errors are noticed.
- Report monthly on publishing throughput,
time-to-rank and content-attributed traffic and revenue.
Success measures
- Pages published against monthly target, by property
- Content-attributed organic sessions and revenue
- Average time-to-rank for current pages
- Refresh programme: pages reworked and traffic recovered
- Quality — editorial rejection rate and factual accuracy
Must have
- 4–7 years in SEO content, with real ownership of a publishing pipeline at volume.
- Can write a brief that a writer can execute without a second conversation.
- Strong on-page SEO capability and schema literacy.
- Has managed freelancers or an agency to a throughput and quality standard.
- Excellent written English and a genuine editorial eye.
Good to have
- Luxury, watch or jewellery category knowledge — or demonstrable appetite to learn it properly.
- Experience optimising content for AI answer engines.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted drafting workflows and where they break down.
Experience and qualification
Graduate or postgraduate. 4–7 years total experience.