About The Average Joe

The Average Joe is a newsletter-first media company covering financial topics that help consumers make better financial decisions.

Our flagship daily newsletter reaches over 200K investors with coverage on the US market, investing trends and other personal finance topics.

Why newsletters? Ever since the dawn of Google, media companies have been trying to game the algorithm to land on that highly sought-after 1st-page ranking.

In the process, financial articles have become unnecessarily long, are being stuffed with more keywords than a Neil Patel article and will put you to sleep faster than watching paint dry**.**

With newsletters, we can change the status quo.

• We have open rates of 50%+ that shatter the industry average — which means every day, over 100K people read what we (you?) write.
• Our readers show up not because we rank first on Google, but because they actually enjoy our content.

If you’ve become a slave to the algorithm, this job isn’t for you. But if you want to produce high-quality content, keep reading.

Our writing values

• 📰 Content-driven
• 🧬 Be human
• 🥇 Strive for excellence
• 🤓 Reader first

Job Description

This is a full-time contract position that will require 35-40 hours per week. This individual will research, write and contribute to our daily financial newsletter which reaches over 200K investors.

You’ll be joining us on our journey to grow from 200K subscribers to over 1 million — while expanding our coverage across various financial topics including personal finance, real estate and crypto.

As an early member in our editorial team, you will have heavy influence on the direction and tone of our products — while gaining first hand experience building a bootstrapped media startup in the early stages.

Responsibilities

• Craft informative and entertaining stories to save readers from the clickbait SEO-focused stories that overpopulate the internet.