Senior Content Manager, Editorial (12-month FTC)

Skyscanner

About Skyscanner Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻. Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍. Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here).   Now, we’re on the lookout for a Senior Content Manager, Editorial (12-Month FTC) to help us bring that vision to even more travellers.    About the role  (Hybrid) Content might start with words, but this role is about so much more than writing. You'll own editorial strategy and day-to-day content operations across our APAC markets, balancing creativity with commercial impact, and local relevance with global consistency. Working across SEO, PR, Lifecycle, Brand and Product, you'll help create content that travellers love and search engines do too. You'll also champion smarter AI-powered workflows, manage skilled freelancers, and keep a complex international content operation running as smoothly as a perfectly planned itinerary. What you’ll be doing * Owning APAC Editorial Strategy: You will lead the planning and production of content for the APAC region. This includes markets like Australia, Japan, Korea, India, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. You must ensure that every piece delivers value for travelers and the business.  * Creating Content That Performs: You will commission, optimise, and refresh content. You will use your editorial judgment and SEO skills. You will also use performance insights. This approach will keep our content relevant, competitive, and easy to find.  * Managing World-Class Freelancers: You will find and brief freelance writers and editors. You will build solid relationships with them. Your goal is to help them create high-quality content and keep projects on schedule.  * Leading Content Operations: You will be a Contentful expert. Your tasks will include publishing content and supporting colleagues. You will also ensure that editorial workflows run smoothly during launches, migrations, and bustling travel periods.  * Using Data to Drive Decisions: You'll monitor content performance, identify new opportunities, and use analytics to shape future commissioning and optimisation priorities.  * Championing AI-Native Workflows: You'll experiment with AI tools to improve planning, briefing and production, while applying robust editorial judgement to ensure quality, accuracy and local relevance never take a holiday.  * Collaborating Across Skyscanner: You'll work closely with SEO, PR, Lifecycle, Brand and Product teams to deliver campaigns and content that support growth, engage travellers and bring brilliant ideas to life.  About you * Editorially accomplished: You've built your career in content marketing, editorial management or publishing, and know how to deliver extraordinary content at scale.  * SEO and AI search savvy: You understand SEO inside out, have a well-developed hold of AI search and Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO), and know how great editorial content earns visibility.  * Data-driven by nature: You're comfortable using analytics and performance insights to prioritise work, optimise content and uncover opportunities for growth.  * Exceptionally organised: You thrive managing multiple markets, stakeholders and deadlines without breaking a sweat (or at least without anyone noticing).  * Collaborative and globally minded: You're confident working across time zones, managing freelancers and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver shared goals.  * Digitally fluent: You have hands-on experience with Contentful or another CMS, enjoy learning new tools, and are excited by how AI can enhance editorial workflows.  * Traveller-first: You combine deep editorial judgement with commercial awareness and a genuine passion for creating travel content that helps people explore the world with confidence.  * Bonus points if: You've used tools such as GA4, Kubit or similar content performance platforms, collaborated with localisation partners or bring multilingual experience, and have familiarity with digital asset management tools such as Bynder.  What it’s like here We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭. Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨. Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel. We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these. #LI-SM2

Skyscanner

About Skyscanner Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻. Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍. Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here).   Now, we’re on the lookout for a Senior Content Manager, Editorial (12-Month FTC) to help us bring that vision to even more travellers.    About the role  (Hybrid) Content might start with words, but this role is about so much more than writing. You'll own editorial strategy and day-to-day content operations across our APAC markets, balancing creativity with commercial impact, and local relevance with global consistency. Working across SEO, PR, Lifecycle, Brand and Product, you'll help create content that travellers love and search engines do too. You'll also champion smarter AI-powered workflows, manage skilled freelancers, and keep a complex international content operation running as smoothly as a perfectly planned itinerary. What you’ll be doing * Owning APAC Editorial Strategy: You will lead the planning and production of content for the APAC region. This includes markets like Australia, Japan, Korea, India, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. You must ensure that every piece delivers value for travelers and the business.  * Creating Content That Performs: You will commission, optimise, and refresh content. You will use your editorial judgment and SEO skills. You will also use performance insights. This approach will keep our content relevant, competitive, and easy to find.  * Managing World-Class Freelancers: You will find and brief freelance writers and editors. You will build solid relationships with them. Your goal is to help them create high-quality content and keep projects on schedule.  * Leading Content Operations: You will be a Contentful expert. Your tasks will include publishing content and supporting colleagues. You will also ensure that editorial workflows run smoothly during launches, migrations, and bustling travel periods.  * Using Data to Drive Decisions: You'll monitor content performance, identify new opportunities, and use analytics to shape future commissioning and optimisation priorities.  * Championing AI-Native Workflows: You'll experiment with AI tools to improve planning, briefing and production, while applying robust editorial judgement to ensure quality, accuracy and local relevance never take a holiday.  * Collaborating Across Skyscanner: You'll work closely with SEO, PR, Lifecycle, Brand and Product teams to deliver campaigns and content that support growth, engage travellers and bring brilliant ideas to life.  About you * Editorially accomplished: You've built your career in content marketing, editorial management or publishing, and know how to deliver extraordinary content at scale.  * SEO and AI search savvy: You understand SEO inside out, have a well-developed hold of AI search and Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO), and know how great editorial content earns visibility.  * Data-driven by nature: You're comfortable using analytics and performance insights to prioritise work, optimise content and uncover opportunities for growth.  * Exceptionally organised: You thrive managing multiple markets, stakeholders and deadlines without breaking a sweat (or at least without anyone noticing).  * Collaborative and globally minded: You're confident working across time zones, managing freelancers and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver shared goals.  * Digitally fluent: You have hands-on experience with Contentful or another CMS, enjoy learning new tools, and are excited by how AI can enhance editorial workflows.  * Traveller-first: You combine deep editorial judgement with commercial awareness and a genuine passion for creating travel content that helps people explore the world with confidence.  * Bonus points if: You've used tools such as GA4, Kubit or similar content performance platforms, collaborated with localisation partners or bring multilingual experience, and have familiarity with digital asset management tools such as Bynder.  What it’s like here We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans ❤️, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier 🧭. Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better — and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all ✨. Sound like your kind of adventure? 🚀 Apply now and help us shape the future of travel. We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these. #LI-SM2

Elliptic

The impact you will have: Elliptic has just closed its largest funding round, operates in a market that is moving into mainstream, and has executives with genuine vision and contributions to make to the on-chain finance agenda. The person in this role will help define how the world sees Elliptic, building the right earned media program, the right analyst relationships, and the right executive voices, and will have a direct bearing on how we are perceived by the customers, regulators, and partners that matter most. PR program * Day-to-day management of the PR agency: briefing, prioritization, performance, and keeping delivery on strategy * Working with the agency, build and maintain relationships with tier-one journalists across business, crypto, fintech, and payments beats globally * Lead earned media activity for major announcements including funding rounds, product launches, research reports, and regulatory developments * Monitor competitive PR activity across TRM Labs and Chainalysis and flag implications to the Director of Communications * Own PR reporting: coverage quality, share of voice, and digital PR metrics including backlink quality and LLM visibility Digital PR and AI/LLM visibility * Incorporate a digital PR strategy designed to improve Elliptic’s visibility in AI-generated answers, LLM-cited sources, and AI Overviews, not just traditional search * Partner with content and SEO to produce stat-rich, citable assets (research, data studies, reports) that earn organic links and AI citations from authoritative publications * Partner with content and growth teams who track Elliptic’s presence across LLM platforms (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) and feed insights back into the PR program where relevant. Executive visibility and thought leadership * Working with the Director of Communications and PR Agency, create and manage LinkedIn content programs for key executives (CEO, CSO), including editorial strategy, ghostwriting, cadence management, and engagement monitoring, producing content that sounds authentically like each individual, not like a corporate feed * Working with the agency, write and place executive bylines, op-eds, and long-form thought leadership articles in target publications * Maintain the executive message house for each priority spokesperson, ensuring consistent narrative across LinkedIn, speaking slots, media interviews, and analyst briefings * Identify and manage a pipeline of speaking, podcast, and roundtable opportunities * Track and report on executive share of voice, LinkedIn audience growth, engagement quality, and speaking performance; use data to continuously improve the program * Identify opportunities for executives to participate in awards programs, advisory boards, and external recognition schemes that build individual and brand credibility Analyst and industry relations The Director of Communications will set the approach; you will run the programme day to day. * Manage ongoing relationships with priority analysts and industry influencers: briefings, inquiry responses, and regular contact * Coordinate analyst briefing schedules and ensure the right people from product, commercial, and communications are prepared and aligned * Track coverage and citations across analyst outputs; report on how Elliptic is described relative to competitors and feed intelligence back to the business Government affairs and lobbying support * Day-to-day coordination with external lobbying and government affairs agency: briefings, scheduling, and keeping workstreams on track * Support the drafting of materials in support of government affairs activity including submissions, briefing notes, position papers, and correspondence * Monitor relevant regulatory and policy developments (MiCA, FIT21, FATF guidance, and others) with the Government, Policy and Regulations team (GPRG) * Support preparation for regulatory consultations, parliamentary or congressional engagements, and policy events as required Communications support * Support the Director of Communications on ad hoc projects including crisis communications, executive media preparation, and major announcements What you will achieve in the first 6 months: * Have the PR agency working to strategy, with a proactive media calendar in place and measurable improvement in tier-one coverage quality * Established baseline metrics across PR, executive visibility, and AR, so there's a clear picture of where the program started and where it's heading * Landed Elliptic's first structured analyst briefings with the highest-priority contacts identified in the mapping exercise * Each priority executive has a clear, distinct point of view on LinkedIn that is recognisably theirs, and that is visibly influencing how Elliptic is talked about in the market * Working confidently to execute the 6-12 month lobbying plan with the GPRG team You will be a great fit here if you: * You'll be a great fit here if the idea of building market leading programs from a solid foundation in a market that is changing in real time, energises rather than unnerves you. * Elliptic is AI-native, scale-up paced, and operating at a genuinely interesting moment, a $120M Series D, institutions moving on-chain, and a media and regulatory landscape that is evolving as fast as the industry itself. * If you want a role where you'll learn more in six months than most people do in two years, this is it. Our ideal candidate has: * Operated in a hands-on media relations roles across global markets * Demonstrable track record of securing tier-one coverage in financial, technology, and/or regulatory press * PR agency background, you understand how agencies work and how to get the most from them Analyst relations * Hands-on experience engaging with analysts in a structured way, briefing, inquiry responses, relationship management * Experience building or significantly contributing to an AR programme Executive visibility * Proven experience developing and managing LinkedIn content programmes for senior executives, ghostwriting, voice capture, and editorial cadence * Strong byline writing capability; comfortable working at pace with senior stakeholders * Experience building or maintaining executive message houses Digital PR & AI fluency * Understanding of how digital PR influences SEO and LLM visibility, proven in practice, not just theory * Familiarity with GEO/LLM concepts and their application to B2B PR * Comfortable using AI tools daily to improve speed and quality of output, this could be in your content production, or for research and automation of workflows, but we expect our candidates to demonstrate how AI is part of your daily life. * Appetite to stay ahead of how AI changes the communications landscape Sector & global experience * Background in fintech, regtech, compliance, financial services, cybersecurity, or enterprise SaaS * Proven ability to work across US, EMEA, and APAC media markets * Comfort in a complex regulatory environment where accuracy and nuance matter Writing & communication * Exceptional written English, able to distil complex technical or regulatory content into clear, compelling narratives * Strong editorial judgement: you know a good story, and you know when something is not ready Skills and attributes * Confident stakeholder management, you can brief and advise C-suite executives, align with product marketing and content, manage agencies simultaneously without losing momentum * Data-driven, you use coverage metrics, SOV, LLM visibility, backlink quality, and LinkedIn engagement to evaluate performance, not just clip counts * Highly organised with strong project management skills; comfortable running multiple workstreams in a fast-moving environment * Curious and proactive, you actively track industry developments, competitive moves, and the evolving PR/AI landscape * Self-starter who can operate with autonomy and build new programmes from scratch, not just maintain existing ones Bonus Points for: * Experience of working with Govt lobbying agencies * Experience in the crypto, blockchain, or digital assets sector * Understanding of AML, financial crime compliance, or crypto regulation * Experience working alongside or briefing government affairs or policy teams JOB BENEFITS > How we work: * Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year * £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space > Learning & Development: * $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development > Vacation/ Leave: * Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays * An extra day for your birthday * Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave. > Benefits: * Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality! * Full access to Spill Mental Health Support * Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries * Cycle to Work Scheme