
Director, Content Strategy
- New York City, NY
- $150,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop a high-performing content strategy function, fostering a culture of strategic thinking, creative excellence, and operational efficiency, with a passion for effectiveness
- Support the Director of Content on defining and communicating Marketing's overarching and competitive content strategy aligned with business objectives and marketing goals.
- Support the establishment of cross functional editorial forums including investments, product, thought leadership, distribution, PR and other marketing teams to determine our content strategy and pipeline.
- Develop strategic and highly creative content recommendations in response to marketing briefs, events and product marketing launches, in line with the content strategy and in collaboration with other SME teams.
- Develop our hero, recurring and go-to-market aligned content marketing programs, in line with the broader content strategy.
- Own content project management and planning, ensuring content strategy and scope is translated into content plans and a cohesive content calendar. Briefs and work closely with the two other vertical leads to manage the workflow through to completion.
- Build strong relationships with segment marketing leads, relevant business and SME partners and contributors to maintain and govern content strategy, scope, calendar and forums.
- Be a clear and consistent communicator, respected voice and trusted operator and partner, in and outside of marketing.
- 8+ years of experience in content marketing and/or content strategy
- 5+ years of people management experience with demonstrated ability in leading and developing small but high performing teams
- Proven track record of developing and executing successful pan-regional, multi-cultural content strategies
- Experience in B2B or complex, regulated B2C environments with pan-regional and multiple stakeholder groups
- Strong facilitation experience and managing complex stakeholder needs
- Strong understanding of the asset management landscape and its segments, products and competitors
- Strong investment acumen that translates into knowledge of core asset allocation principles, multi-asset/outcome-oriented investment approaches, fundamental active and private markets investments across all vehicle types
- Strong understanding of content marketing trends, emerging technologies including AI, and industry best practices
- Familiarity in a range of content formats from long to short-form to social-first, video and infographics, with a command of the most effective best practices
- Experience of channel strategy and optimization – including organic and paid social, programmatic, search and marketing automation – as well as content lifecycle management
- Passion for effectiveness through data, analytics, insights, test-and-learn
- Familiarity with legal and compliance considerations
- Familiarity with global content localization and international marketing considerations
- An understanding of UX, SEO and content-related digital publishing strategy and best practices
- Strong awareness of CMS platforms, tagging, taxonomy and content operations
- Familiarity with content creation workflows, editorial processes, and creative operations
- Highly creative and someone who likes to push the boundaries of what ‘great’ looks, feels and reads like
- Analytical, results-oriented mindset to continuously improve our capabilities and the impact of our work
- Strong business acumen with ability to connect content initiatives to revenue outcomes.