Summary
Joel Falconer is a seasoned content director and strategist with two decades of experience building high-traffic digital media properties and nine years in senior editorial leadership roles. He blends deep technical SEO, email marketing, and content operations expertise with hands-on product and UX work across WordPress, Ghost, HubSpot and Astro to deliver measurable audience and revenue growth. At SitePoint he engineered AI-driven workflows and analytics that dramatically increased per-page ranking efficiency and newsletter performance; at FLCN he grew owned media to 921K search impressions in the first year while integrating generative AI models for brand-aware content. Joel pairs editorial judgment with technical chops—he’s trained Stable Diffusion and fine-tuned LLMs to support scalable content production—plus direct experience in site builds and technical SEO audits. Based on a background that spans startup marketplace product roles to managing major editorial teams, he thrives at the intersection of storytelling, data and automation to make content both discoverable and commercially effective.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Journalism, Popular Music, Journalism, Popular Music at Griffith University