Senior Directories & Content Consultant

Directories & Content team. 24 hours a week to full time, 100% remote (UK).

ELE works only with the legal sector. Law firms and barristers' chambers, in the UK and internationally. We write directory submissions for Chambers UK and the Legal 500, and we write the websites, reports and thought leadership that sit alongside them.

We are a small remote team and we are growing quickly. Our clients include firms you would recognise, and they stay with us because we are specialists rather than a marketing agency with a legal sideline, and because we tell them the truth about their content.

This is a senior role with a client portfolio attached to it. You would own a group of clients as their strategic lead, working with them to set the ranking ambition, deciding which departments and individuals to push, advising on matter selection and positioning, and making the argument to partners who may well push back on it.

You would also lead the pod that delivers the work. Our project managers handle timelines, drafts and chasing. You lead on strategy, ranking advice and creative direction, review first drafts against our standards, and sign off what goes to the client.

You would report to Helen Foord, our CEO, and line-manage a group of Consultants. You would also sit in the small senior group deciding how ELE grows: which services, which clients, how the agency works. We are building our processes now, and the person in this role will shape them rather than inherit them.

We are a scale-up, not a large agency. Some of our processes are new and some are still being written. You would be expected to work things out, and occasionally to fix something that should already have worked.

We can offer a fully remote job, hours that fit around your life, real autonomy over your portfolio, and a say in how the agency is built. If you want the expertise you may have built in-house to contribute to growing something exciting and valuable, this may be the job for you.

Two things are non-negotiable.

You have written and shaped submissions for Chambers UK and the Legal 500 (and others) across multiple cycles. You know how researchers read them, what a weak matter looks like, and why most submissions fail to make the case. Expertise means you could teach it, because you will be teaching it here.

You have worked inside a firm, in marketing, BD or communications. You know how partners think, where approvals stall, and what it takes to get a submission over the line when everyone involved is billing. That perspective is the thing we cannot train.

Beyond those two, we are looking for:

• Writing and editing brilliance. Plain English, sound structure, and the confidence to tell a partner their draft is a bit pants.
• The presence to be met as a peer in a call with senior lawyers, and to make a ranking argument they understand.
• Line management experience, or a clear reason to believe you would be good at it.
• Comfort with process. We use Teamwork, and it’s important that you’re happy to work within project management processes and procedures.
• Steadiness in submission season, when everything lands at once.
• Working knowledge of AI tools to support human, professional writing. We use them across the business, carefully and openly, and we are not nervous about them.

Useful, but not essential

• Experience of directories beyond Chambers and the Legal 500.
• Content work beyond submissions, particularly websites, reports and thought leadership.
• Experience of working in a remote team.

The nitty gritty

Role

Senior Directories & Content Consultant

Reports to

Direct reports

An allocated group of Consultants, plus pod leadership on a client-by-client basis

Hours

24 hours a week minimum, worked over at least four days, up to full time for the right person

Location

100% remote, based anywhere in the UK

Holiday

5.6 weeks including bank holidays, plus 6 wellbeing days and three volunteering days, pro rata, per year

Bonus

Tiered bonus structure based on salary if we exceed agency annual targets

Commission

5% commission (first contract) for new clients you bring in

In-person

Two team meetings per year (expenses paid), plus optional coworking sessions

ASAP

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