Editor, Motley Fool Canada

The role

This editor will support the fool.ca website by content-editing and copy-editing articles about investing and retirement planning. The role involves publishing articles in WordPress and providing feedback to writers and the managing editor.

What you will do

• Support our free website, fool.ca
• Content-edit articles about investing and retirement planning
• Copy edit articles to ensure they are free of grammatical and spelling errors
• Publish articles in WordPress after adding and checking required metadata
• Work with our managing editor to understand investing concepts
• Provide feedback to the managing editor about writers and content
• Provide feedback to writers to help them improve their writing

Required qualifications

• Prior experience as an editor, ideally of online editorial-style content
• Expertise in the realms of grammar, writing style and financial fact-checking
• High level of organizational skills
• Ability to self-motivate and stay on track to hit daily deadlines
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Curiosity, flexibility and a good sense of humor

Nice to have

• Some prior knowledge of, or interest in, investing
• Familiarity with WordPress
• Some knowledge of SEO best practices
• Some knowledge of large-language model AI tools
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Slack and Google apps

About the company

The Motley Fool is a purpose-driven financial information and services firm with more than 30 years of experience focused on helping the world invest better.