[Hiring] Listings Writer @Car & Classic

Role Description

You’re a detail-obsessed writer with a genuine passion for cars. You take pride in accuracy, clarity and craft, and you understand that great listings don’t just describe vehicles, they build confidence, tell a story and drive buyer action.

You’re naturally curious and research-driven, comfortable working with technical information and verifying details from multiple sources. You manage your time well, write at pace without sacrificing quality, and care about consistency and standards.

As a Listing Writer, your mission is to craft detailed, insightful and persuasive auction listings that captivate our audience and drive sales. You’ll be responsible for the written presentation of high-value and technically complex vehicles that help define the Car & Classic brand.

• You’ll maintain an excellent standard of written English and technical accuracy while working to deadlines and volume targets.
• This role combines editorial judgement, automotive knowledge and sales storytelling.

Qualifications

• Experience writing about specialist vehicles: proven ability to produce accurate, detailed written content about classic, collector, performance or otherwise specialist vehicles.
• Automotive knowledge: broad and deep understanding of classic, performance and collector vehicles, from pre-war to modern classics and youngtimers.
• Sales copywriting ability: able to write persuasive, engaging listings that drive bidder interest.
• Excellent written English: consistently high editorial standard, grammar and structure.
• Research capability: confident sourcing and validating obscure or technical vehicle data.
• Tech-savvy: comfortable using CMS, CRM and AI tools to support writing and research.
• Accuracy & detail focus: strong fact-checking discipline and technical integrity.
• Feedback-driven mindset: receptive to critique and committed to continuous improvement.
• Output discipline: able to write to deadlines and volume targets without quality drop-off.

Requirements

• Throughput target: You’ll individually contribute 135 auction listings per month.
• Listing performance: Your listings perform on par with C&C's average sale rate.
• Pipeline momentum: Maintain pipeline momentum, with no jobs spending more than 48 hours without a valid reason.
• Technical integrity: Maintain a high level of technical accuracy, leaving no details to chance and proactively approaching team members and vendors when information is lacking.
• Accuracy & risk control: You’ll have identified and acted upon any potential for misdescription/misleading content or language used in listings through cross-departmental collaboration and effective proofreading of your own work and others.
• Editorial standard: Commitment to a high standard of written English, adhering closely to C&C’s tone of voice and style guides.
• CRM discipline: Impeccable CRM hygiene, with all required fields filled in, allowing team performance and form submission trends to be tracked accurately.

Benefits

• £28,000 + up to 6% bonus
• Generous stock options scheme
• All the equipment you need to get the job done
• Flexible working - work where and when you want to get the job done
• Access to free counselling, therapy and mental health support via Spill
• Professional development allowance
• Life cover
• Smart Health
• Generous parental leave
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Ability to make your mark on a fast-growing start-up