Sr Content Marketing Manager

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The Senior Content Marketing Manager develops and executes a strategic content program that drives brand awareness, audience engagement, and business growth. This role combines strong storytelling with a focus on marketing performance and partners closely with Demand Marketing, Product Marketing, Brand, and Sales to deliver content that supports the full customer journey.

This is a hands-on content manager who can craft strategy, create and manage high quality content, and create and execute plans to amplify and publish content.

What you'll do here

Content Strategy & Planning

• Partner with other content marketers on a comprehensive content strategy aligned to brand, demand, and go‑to‑market priorities.

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive content calendar across owned and partner channels

• Define content themes that support business goals.

• Translate audience insights and market trends into compelling, differentiated content ideas.

• Align content plans with product launches, campaigns, and seasonal initiatives.

Content Creation & Management

• Create and oversee high‑quality content across formats, including blogs, articles, ebooks, white papers, case studies, video, and sales enablement materials.

• Partner with internal teams and external writers, agencies, and subject‑matter experts to develop audience-specific content.

• Ensure content is on‑brand, audience‑focused, and optimized for clarity and impact.

• Edit and elevate content to meet quality, voice, and storytelling standards.

Demand & Lifecycle Content Enablement

• Collaborate with Demand and Growth teams to support acquisition, nurture, and conversion efforts.

• Develop content mapped to buyer journeys, personas, and stages of the funnel.

• Support account‑based marketing, lifecycle campaigns, and customer engagement programs.

• Enable Sales and Customer teams with relevant, compelling content that supports pipeline and retention.

Distribution, Performance & Optimization

• Look for opportunities to repackage content in new ways and apply a combination of skills, tools and partners to develop, amplify and distribute content

• Partner with Digital Marketing and SEO teams to optimize content for discovery and performance.

• Use data and insights to evaluate content effectiveness and continuously improve results.

• Track and report on key content metrics such as engagement, conversion, and influence on pipeline.

• Test new formats, channels, and storytelling approaches to increase impact.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration & Leadership

• Serve as a content thought partner to Product Marketing, Brand, Sales, and Leadership teams.

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Lead content distribution workflows

• Provide guidance and feedback to other marketers or contributors.

• Ensure alignment between conten