Senior Editor, Education Content

Your Opportunity

TD Ameritrade is where “Smart Investors Get Smarter.” Essential to this is our industry-leading education and market commentary that helps retail investors reach their investing goals by better understanding the markets.

This is your chance to shape content that is consumed by millions of retail investors. As the Senior Editor, you will play a key role in ensuring our Education offering is the best the industry, providing substantive editing and copyediting for all Education content. You will ensure content is cogent, coherent, concise, fulfills editorial goals, on-brand, consistent, in compliance with style guides, and free of any grammatical or spelling errors. You’ll also provide coaching/feedback to writers as necessary. You should have exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and experience with both copyediting and substantive editing of high-visibility content. A solid understanding of financial markets and investing is strongly preferred.

Workplace Flexibility Program: We're proud to support our employees in a working approach that allows you to bring your best self to work – whether that’s in the office or remote.

Most Schwabbies have the opportunity to voluntarily work in the office or at home based on their preference*When the firm is ready to fully return to the office, employees will have the flexibility of a hybrid work environment, spending some time working remote and some time in the office.Employees and managers can discuss and decide what works best for them, with additional flexibility available based on their role, business needs, and individual circumstances.

What you are good at

• Editing written and visual content in many formats (video scripts, online courses, articles, infographics, presentations, etc.) to ensure copy is cogent, coherent, fulfills editorial goals, compliant with editorial style guides, and free of any grammatical or spelling errors
• Providing feedback and coaching writers to continually improve content production
• Compiling and maintaining editorial style guides
• Incorporating global updates across multiple pieces of content and updating content in a content management system (CMS)

What you have

• 5 years of experience providing substantive and copyediting, preferably of financial or business content—a solid understanding of financial markets and investing is strongly preferred.
• Ability to help writers and subject matter experts break down and explain complex financial topics clearly and concisely
• Proven ability to help produce content in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with peers
• Extreme attention to detail and strong organizational skills
• Independent yet comfortable seeking guidance from leadership and peers when needed
• Experience with Content Management Systems (CMS)