At
Legend, we're building next-level player experiences. With 20+ years of proven success we’re the world's leading Sports and Gaming marketing company.
Our people are our edge. 600+ sharp, ambitious
Legends across 22+ countries who move fast, learn quickly and win together. Here growth isn’t a perk, it’s the standard. You’ll stretch, level-up and carve out a career as bold as the products we build. We celebrate wins and create experiences that people talk about for years - for our players & for each other. If you’re ready to shape the future of player experience and enjoy the ride while you do it, this is where you’ll thrive.
Your path to legendary impact starts here.
Do you wake up Monday morning excited to deliver the highest possible content quality to your readers? Are you motivated by continuously unlocking the potential of your team members? Do you enjoy leading by example, scaling, setting the pace, and being accountable for your market results?
Join us as a Managing Editor!
Legend is hiring a Managing Editor due to growth. You’ll be reporting directly to our Publishing Leadership. This role will support our Content team to expand and optimise our growing sites across North America, Europe and beyond. You'll be working on English-language markets.
You will lead a world-class team of a couple of highly specialised Content Managers, overseeing a larger team of skilled editors[circa 10]. Some of these teams are established, and some you’ll be building. Co-own the content journey of thousands of users and build a long-term, sustainable strategy that keeps us ahead of the competition. Help our users. Grow your career. Win.
In this role, we value diverse perspectives and encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed.
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’ll thrive here if you’re always eager to learn, value constructive feedback, and are excited by big goals.
- In terms of technical skills for the Managing Editor role, you ideally bring:
- A strong managerial toolkit, understanding how to best lead your team members to unlock the most of their potential. You’ll have experience coaching, developing, mentoring and leading others development plans.
- An extensive track record of writing and editing high-quality content, boosting user engagement and organic traffic for English-speaking markets.
- Additional languages, especially German, would be especially helpful.
- Proven experience as a process builder - you’ll have set up new guidelines and 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 GA4] to boost user engagement and organic traffic. More details here
You could settle for ordinary - or you could join us.
- 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.
Our 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. Being #1 is only worth it if we’re having fun along the journey.
- We offer flexible working hours. Our core hours are from 10 am to 3 pm your local time.
- We benchmark our compensation packages annually which tells us what the market is paying. When we say we offer a “competitive package,” we mean it.
- We offer generous annual leave, including our 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!
Are you ready? The steps to unlock the Legend in YOU. - 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
talent@l1.com, and we'll do all we can to support you.
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