Posted 23 days ago
Editor, Motley Fool Canada
@ The Motley Fool
Remote in Canada
Overview
The Motley Fool is hiring an independent contract editor for its Canadian investing content at fool.ca, 20-25 hours per week, fully remote with flexible hours. The work covers content and copy editing of investing and retirement articles, WordPress publishing, and fact-checking. Pay is $45-$50 CAD per hour, and candidates must be located in Canada.
Responsibilities:
- Content-edit investing and retirement articles
- Copy edit articles for grammar and spelling
- Publish articles in WordPress with metadata
- Fact-check financial content and flag compliance concerns
- Give feedback to writers and the managing editor
Requirements summary:
- Prior editing experience, ideally online editorial content
- Expertise in grammar, style and financial fact-checking
- High organizational skills and meeting daily deadlines
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
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Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-15
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-15
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-15
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Job details
| Department | Design & creative |
| Hours per week | 22.5 |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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The Motley Fool
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The Motley Fool’s name comes from William Shakespeare’s play “As You Like It”. The court jester, known as the Fool, could speak the truth to the king and queen without having his head lopped off. The Fools of yore entertained the court with humor that instructed as it amused. More importantly, the Fool was never afraid to question conventional wisdom. In the same way, we aim to speak the truth about money and investing...and to make financial guidance accessible to people of all backgrounds and experience levels. At The Motley Fool, our purpose is to make the world smarter, happier, and richer. We help millions of people around the world achieve their financial goals every day. We believe in treating every dollar as an investment in the future you want to create. We believe that investing in great businesses, for the long term, is the most effective path to wealth. The Motley Fool provides free and premium investment guidance to millions of individual investors around the world on Fool.com through: - Premium membership services that provide stock recommendations, detailed analysis of companies, model portfolios, live streaming video during market hours, and more. - Free market news and commentary with hundreds of new articles published each week. - Member-only tools and programming for building your ideal portfolio, tracking your performance, and monitoring companies of interest.
- LinkedIn followers
- 220,399
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 560
- Reported office locations
- Alexandria, Virginia 22314, US
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- The Motley Fool
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- stock rating service
- marketing
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- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
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The Motley Fool’s name comes from William Shakespeare’s play “As You Like It”. The court jester, known as the Fool, could speak the truth to the king and queen without having his head lopped off. The Fools of yore entertained the court with humor that instructed as it amused. More importantly, the Fool was never afraid to question conventional wisdom. In the same way, we aim to speak the truth about money and…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Company size | 201-500 employees |
| Headquarters | Alexandria, Virginia |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 1993 |
| Specialties | investor advicestock market newspremium subscriptionsstock rating servicemarketingand publishing |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1 |
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The Motley Fool Canada is looking for a skilled editor to join our team on an independent contract basis, 20-25 hours per week.
Though this role will be fully remote with flexible hours, candidates must be located in Canada for consideration. No exceptions.
Who Are We?
We are The Motley Fool, a purpose-driven financial information and services firm with more than 30 years of experience focused on helping the world invest better.
But what does that even mean?! It means we’re helping Fools (always with a capital “F”) demystify the world of finance, beat the stock market, and achieve personal wealth and happiness through our subscription-based investment advice.
The Motley Fool is firmly committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity. We are a motley group of overachievers that have built a culture of trust founded on Foolishness, fun, and a commitment to making the world smarter, happier and richer. However you identify or whatever winding road has led you to us, please don't hesitate to apply if the description above leaves you thinking, "Hey! I could do that!"
Though The Motley Fool is US-based, we have a thriving Global unit that serves countries both Canada and far-flung Australia. This contractor would be supporting our team in Canada.
What Is a Foolish Editor?
The ideal candidate for this role is just as adept at spotting a comma that should be a semicolon as they are at identifying writing that doesn’t flow properly or a “fact” that seems out of place. We cover the world of Canadian investing and are looking for an editor who can help make sure our writing is polished, sounds great, and is factually accurate. So, yes, a little bit of everything!
But What Would You Specifically Do in This Role?
- Support our free website, fool.ca
- Content-edit articles about investing and retirement planning to ensure they flow well, are interesting, and are generally well written and logically sound
- Copy edit articles to ensure they’re free of grammatical and spelling errors
- Publish articles in WordPress after adding and checking required metadata (images, stock tickers, stock ownership disclosures, etc)
- Work with our managing editor to better understand investing concepts so you learn to identify factual errors or items that may be of compliance or regulatory concern
- Provide feedback to the managing editor about writers and the content that’s being created
- Provide feedback to writers to help them improve their writing
Required Experience and Skills:
- Prior experience as an editor, ideally of online editorial-style content
- Expertise in the realms of grammar, writing style and financial fact-checking
- High level of organizational skills
- Ability to self-motivate and stay on track to hit daily deadlines
- Meticulous attentoin to detail
- Caught the typo in the last bullet point
- Strong communication skills
- Curiosity, flexibility and a good sense of humor!
Ideal Additional Experience and Skills:
- Some prior knowledge of, or interest in, investing
- Familiarity with WordPress
- Some knowledge of SEO best practices
- Some knowledge of large-language model AI tools
- Experience with collaboration tools such as Slack and Google apps
Hourly Pay Range
$45—$50 CAD
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