Marketing Editor

What Zoho does

Zoho builds cloud-based business apps for a wide array of industries and purposes. Over the past 25 years, our portfolio has grown from a single online word-processing tool to a comprehensive suite of apps that covers an industry-leading range of use cases. With 55+ products on offer—and even more in the development pipeline—Zoho is a powerful, integrated business management system.

Who we are

Privately held and deeply committed to solving problems through global collaboration, our organization believes in experimentation, iteration, and following your instincts. Although we have a growing US operation, the bulk of our employees live and work in Chennai, India, so our work often takes place across time zones, cultures, and sometimes languages.

Our review team, which is based in the US, is a dedicated crew of skilled writers who enjoy arguing over idioms or debating whether a clause is restrictive or non-restrictive. We have backgrounds in a range of fields, including teaching, marketing, and online journalism. With a long history of hiring outside of tech and publishing, we know that talented editors don't always have long resumes or fancy accreditations.

What we're offering

We're currently looking to bring on a full-time salaried editor to work with some of our product teams on their marketing content, including blog posts, webpages, social media, and email marketing. Other project opportunities and responsibilities may arise in accordance with performance and available workload. The level of experience required for this position is negotiable; for the right person, the responsibilities of the job will be tailored to fit the candidate's strengths and capacities. However, this is a relatively entry-level position, not one suited to someone with extensive industry experience. Pay is $50,000–$60,000, depending on skills and qualifications. All candidates will begin as temporary W2 employees for three to five months. After that time, employee performance will be evaluated for a permanent position. For context, greater than 80% of new hires convert to permanent employees.

What we're looking for

Our ideal candidate is comfortable with technology, marketing, and the principles of English grammar. Marketing editors require patience, dedication, and attention to detail, as well as good instincts for how to position a product. The ability to consistently adhere to our style guide is a must, as is an "empathy first" approach to editorial work.

Required qualifications

To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a short revising test, and finalists will participate in a series of remote video interviews.

What you should know about Zoho before applying

Zoho is and will always be a privately held company because we prefer to focus on customers and employees rather than shareholders. That means prospective employees should not join Zoho in pursuit of a large, lump-sum payout or lavish stock options.

Zoho does not aspire to the "cool tech-company" image, preferring instead to embrace a more down-to-earth company culture. If a flashy campus or downtown office is important to you, you’ll likely be disappointed.

Our ideal candidate is looking to build a long-term career at Zoho. In exchange, we clear space for people to grow and progress within our organization, offering the freedom to explore new passions and expand areas of responsibility and ownership. Candidates who are looking for a short-term gig are discouraged from applying.

Zoho is a low-ego company. We care very little about job titles and status, preferring instead to reward employees of all levels for their flexibility, values, and creative ambition. Candidates who are highly invested in hierarchy tend to struggle with Zoho's flat organizational culture.

Zoho rewards independent self-starters who can learn on the job. Rather than structuring work around daily feedback or tightly managed performance metrics, we prefer to give employees a high degree of freedom, but in exchange, they must be motivated to actively drive their own success. We do not micromanage, but we don't hand hold either.

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Zoho Corp. is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.

Successful applicants undergo a standard background check and demonstrate eligibility to work in the United States.