[Remote] Director of Content

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rankings.io is a company focused on producing high-performing legal content, and they are seeking a Director of Content to lead their content team. This role involves building and developing content managers and writers while ensuring the editorial quality and compliance of the content produced.ResponsibilitiesThe content team — the content managers and writers, including the EEAT Content Manager. Their performance, growth, and consistent output against standard are yoursTeam development — coaching writers, editors, and managers, building their skills, and growing the next layer of editorial leadership so the team gets stronger over timePeople management rhythms — regular 1:1s, direct feedback, performance management when needed, hiring support, onboarding, role clarity, and growth paths for the content teamTeam culture and morale — a healthy, accountable, high-standard environment where people issues get surfaced and resolved at your level, not escalated upwardThe editorial quality system — the standards, workflows, training, and accountability that produce clean, consistent execution across every page type, so quality doesn’t depend on you personally reviewing everythingContent accuracy and compliance — correct brand names every time, accurate client-specific information on every page, adherence to legal marketing and advertising laws, and legal information that is relevant and correct for the client’s practice area and jurisdictionBrand fidelity — every piece matches the client’s tone, voice, and brand before it leaves the buildingContent effectiveness — that what we publish performs in both traditional organic search and AI-driven search, and follows SEO best practicesThe content standards and SOPs that govern how the team writes, edits, and reviews — kept current as the landscape shiftsPrimary: Content quality and execution health — first-pass QA rate, post-publish error rate (wrong or missing brand names, incorrect client-specific information, legal-marketing or legal-accuracy issues), brand and compliance accuracy, and consistency against documented standards. This is what the role directly controlsSupporting: Content performance vs. roadmap targets — the share of published content that achieves its intended SEO/visibility outcome (ranking movement, qualified organic traffic, AI-search citation) within the expected window. The content still has to perform; this keeps that outcome in view without over-indexing the role on strategy it doesn’t own. Target benchmarks to be confirmed with the Senior Director of SEOFirst, you lead people. You run a team of content managers and writers — you coach them, develop them, hold them to a standard, and handle the performance and culture work that comes with that. When something on the team is off, you identify it early, address it directly, and bring it to resolution at the appropriate level before it becomes a recurring escalation. You build the kind of environment where good people stay and grow, and you grow the next layer of leadership underneath youSecond, you own the quality system. Rather than personally catching every issue, you build the standards, workflows, training, and accountability that let the team produce excellent, accurate, on-brand, compliant work consistently — and you serve as the final escalation path when something genuinely needs your judgment. Strategy decides what gets written; you make sure the team executes that intent at a high editorial, brand, accuracy, and compliance standard. You partner closely with SEO strategy leadership to understand the intent behind each roadmap, then ensure the content team delivers on itAI-Native Requirements: Owns the quality bar for what AI ships — governs the output of the article-drafting and content-qa skills, routing clean passes efficiently and personally governing the escalation and writer-feedback loop where AI surfaces problems. Uses AI to enforce accuracy and compliance at scale — directs Claude to check for missing or incorrect brand names, client-specific detail errors, and legal-marketing red flags rather than relying solely on manual line-by-line review. Uses Claude to surface quality patterns and recurring error types across the portfolio before doing manual analysis. Directs Claude via ClickUp and Ahrefs to pull client data, brand details, and ranking signals without manual copy-paste. Flags recurring content-workflow and QA bottlenecks to AI Ops for automation rather than absorbing manual workarounds — and contributes to the content and QA skills the team relies on. Treats content built to perform in AI-driven search as a standard expectation, not an experiment — and makes sure the team knows how to meet itSuccess Looks Like: At 6 months: The content team operates against a documented, current standard, and post-publish accuracy and compliance errors — wrong brand names, incorrect client detail, legal-marketing issues — have dropped to near zero. At 6 months: Team-level people and performance issues are being surfaced and resolved at your level. They have stopped landing on the Senior Director’s desk. At 12 months: Has developed the content managers and writers measurably — stronger output, clearer ownership, and at least one person grown into more responsibility. At 12 months: Has built a team culture where the bar is self-sustaining — quality, accuracy, and brand fidelity no longer depend on you catching everything personally. At 12 months: Client content is demonstrably performing in both organic and AI-driven search, with the team producing it consistently and on standardSkillsProven people leadership — you have built, coached, and developed a content or editorial team, managed performance directly, and owned the culture of a group, not just produced strong work yourselfStrong editorial command — you set a clear quality standard and hold a team accountable to it, across tone, accuracy, and brandWorking knowledge of SEO and of legal marketing and advertising rules — enough to hold content to best practice and catch compliance and legal-accuracy issues a writer or strategist would missHolds a high personal bar and refuses to let content go out merely adequate, off-brand, or unverified — and expects the same from the team, even under deadline pressureBias toward action and follow-through — owns outcomes and team issues alike, moves decisions forward, and doesn't wait to be chasedEmbraces and drives change — acts through ambiguity rather than waiting for perfect conditions, and brings the team with them through itFluent and eager with AI tooling — sees automation as how the team operationalizes speed and quality at scale, and actively pushes the work in that directionBenefitsFully RemoteUnlimited PTO$100 Wellness Reimbursement ProgramQuarterly training stipend for Professional Development401(k) with 3% Employer match (Safe Harbor)100% Employer-Paid Health InsuranceCompany OverviewRankings.io is a digital marketing agency that provides SEO for personal injury lawyers. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Marion, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.rankings.io.