Detail-Obsessed Part-Time Assistant for a Small Marketing Agency

Read this all the way to the end. There is an instruction near the bottom that decides whether we read your application. ABOUT US We are a small marketing agency in San Diego. We do SEO and AI-search work for eleven US clients: content, on-page fixes, backlinks, Reddit. Small team, growing quickly, fully remote. WHAT WE ACTUALLY NEED An assistant. Not a specialist, not a strategist, not an SEO expert. Right now one person on our team catches everything. The task nobody assigned. The report with the broken link. The item marked done that was never published. It all lands on her, so her day goes into checking work instead of doing it. We want to hand that to you. You do not need to know SEO. You need to be smart, careful, and hard to fool. We will teach you the rest, and we are genuinely happy to train someone good. WHAT YOU WOULD DO EVERY DAY (three things) Keep our project board honest. Every promise made on a call or in Slack becomes a task with an owner and a due date. Nothing sits. Nothing says done without proof. Chase people, politely, without being asked. If someone owed us something yesterday, you are the one who notices. Keep our freelancers moving. Briefs sent, deadlines tracked, and you tell us when someone is about to miss. Check work before it goes out. Not as an expert, as a careful person. Are there ten items, like we promised? Do the links go where they say they go? Is that page actually live? Is anything blank, or spelled the British way? All nine of our clients are American. WHAT YOU WOULD NOT DO Talk to clients, write content, set strategy, or run audits. You are not being asked to have opinions about our specialists' work, only to catch the plain mistakes before a paying client sees them. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR - Careful. You would rather check twice than guess once. - Clear written English, US standard. We are American, so "favourite" and "whilst" do not belong in our work. That is the kind of thing you would catch. - Comfortable telling someone their work is not ready. - Able to organise your own day without being managed. - Some overlap with 9:00am to 5:00pm US Central. - Experience with a project tool such as Monday.com, Asana, Trello or ClickUp is a plus, not a requirement. DETAILS - 10 to 15 hours a week to start, growing with you - Long-term, fully remote - Path to more hours and more responsibility if it works out - Tell us your rate. We do not have a fixed band and we would rather hear what you think you are worth. HOW TO APPLY This is the first test, because catching mistakes is the job. There are three deliberate mistakes in this post: a number that changes between sections, a count that does not add up, and a spelling that is wrong for a US audience. Start your cover letter with the word CAREFUL, then tell us what you found and where. If you only find one or two, say so. We would much rather see two you are certain of than four you are guessing at. Please do not pad the list. Then answer the questions below. We do not read applications that skip this.