Managing Editor

We are Legend. We exist to build legendary experiences, by growing winning brands that people love, together. For over 20 years, we have built cutting-edge products in the world’s most competitive comparison markets: iGaming, Sports Betting, and Personal Finance. We are 700+ Legends strong and growing an industry-leading portfolio that continues to attract and entertain hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

Join us as a Managing Editor! Legend is hiring for 3 x Managing Editors due to growth. You will be reporting directly to our Publishing Leadership and will support our Content team to expand and optimise our growing sites across North America, Europe and beyond.

What You’ll Positively Impact

• Full ownership of content quality across your markets.
• Mentoring, nurturing and coaching your team to drive their performance, ensuring they deliver at pace and to standard.
• KPI tracking and accountability, embedding metrics into daily work.
• Operational excellence in task planning, commitments, and OKRs.
• Workflow optimisations, including BAU streams, AI opportunities, and content freshness strategies.
• Work closely with our Content Managers to ensure Best In Class content is shipped, this could be through developing SEO guides, aligning best practices or getting hands-on to suggest improvements.

What Makes You a Potential Legend

• We seek resourceful and kind self-starters who enjoy autonomy, a dynamic environment, and high accountability. You will thrive here if you’re always eager to learn, value constructive feedback, and are excited by big goals.

Technical Skills

• A strong managerial toolkit, understanding how to best lead your team members to unlock the most of their potential. You will have significant experience managing other people managers (this could look like having a few direct reports with a larger team of 6 plus).
• An extensive track record of writing and editing high-quality content, boosting user engagement and organic traffic for English-speaking markets.
• Proven experience as a process builder – you will have set up new guidelines, processes to help drive team performance. Ideally, using AI and automation to ship quality content at velocity.
• Demonstrable experience of using SEO tools (like SEMRush, AHREFS) and Content Performance tools (like G4A) to boost user engagement and organic traffic.

Career Growth

For this role as a Managing Editor, you will have multiple chances to progress further with us over time. We can’t make any iron-clad promises as to timelines, as more senior roles are unlocked by us reaching our organisational targets. But an example could include growing into a Head of Content role taking ownership of multiple markets through a team of Managing Editors. Once you’ve finished onboarding, we will make an IDP together, helping you reach your long-term career ambitions.

Culture & Benefits

We thrive from helping our team members grow their skills and careers. It’s one of our biggest motivations as a company. We regularly check in with our team and have strong employee engagement scores. We offer flexible working hours. Our core hours are from 10 am to 3 pm your local time. We benchmark our compensation packages annually and offer a long-term incentive plan so we can all share in the growth and success of Legend. We offer generous annual leave, including a company shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s, birthdays, volunteer and life event days. We host exciting global Legend events, where we unite in person to ignite our shared passion and unveil the exciting strategies for the year ahead.

How to Apply

Then your legendary journey begins – for more information on the process, please click here. Legend is an Equal Opportunity Employer, but that’s just the start. We believe different perspectives help us grow and achieve more. That’s why we’re dedicated to hiring and developing the most talented and diverse team – which includes individuals with different backgrounds, abilities, identities and experiences. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout your application process, please speak to your Talent Partner or contact the team at [email protected], and we’ll do all we can to support you. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and Embrace Diversity & Inclusion. We welcome applications from all equally qualified candidates.