Director Content Marketing

Pleasanton, CA (Hybrid)

$170K/yr – $200K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and drive the enterprise content strategy, architecture, and AI-enabled personalization programs across omnichannel campaigns, leading collaboration with Product, Engineering, CRM, and external partners to deliver scalable, brand-consistent experiences.

  • Own cross-functional content ecosystem and 360 campaigns
  • Lead governance, storytelling frameworks, and tooling adoption

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain the enterprise content strategy aligned to brand, business, and customer experience goals.
  • Define the content architecture, including modular content systems, metadata frameworks, taxonomies, and governance models to support personalization and omnichannel activation.
  • Establish storytelling frameworks that ensure consistent brand voice, narrative cohesion, and creative excellence across all channels and platforms.
  • Create content playbooks, guidelines, and templates to drive consistency and efficiency across internal teams and agency partners.
  • Lead content strategy for National 360° campaigns, ensuring alignment across platforms, channels inclusive of paid media, owned digital channels, in‑store, social, and CRM.
  • Partner with Channel partners, business functions and The Collective to translate campaign objectives into cohesive content plans.
  • Ensure storytelling is integrated, sequenced, and optimized across the full customer journey.
  • Oversee content planning, briefing, and orchestration to ensure timely and effective delivery.
  • Identify and implement AI and automation technologies that enhance content creation, versioning, optimization, and personalization.
  • Advocate for prioritization with key stakeholder partners: Product, Engineering and Digital teams to develop and integrate AI tools safely, responsibly, and in alignment with enterprise standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Communications, Digital Media, or related field.
  • 10 years of experience in content strategy, integrated marketing, digital creative leadership, or related roles.
  • Experience leading content strategy for large‑scale, omnichannel brands.
  • Demonstrated success building or managing AI‑enabled content systems or personalization programs.
  • Strong understanding of 360° campaign development, omnichannel storytelling, and retail or CPG marketing environments.
  • Proven experience managing creative and production agencies.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills.
  • Ability to balance creative excellence with operational rigor and data‑driven decision‑making.
  • Familiarity with content operations platforms, DAM/CMS systems, and marketing automation tools.

Preferred

  • Experience in grocery, retail, or multi‑banner brand environments.
  • Knowledge of retail media networks and shopper marketing.
  • Experience with metadata‑driven content systems and modular content design.
  • Background in creative operations or marketing operations.

Benefits

  • Competitive wages paid weekly
  • Access to up to 50% of your earned wages before payday, via our partnership with Stream
  • Associate discounts
  • Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
  • Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
  • Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
  • An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve
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Safeway operates as a banner of Albertsons Companies. Locally great and nationally strong, Albertsons Cos. (NYSE: ACI) is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States. Albertsons Cos. operates stores across 34 states and the District of Columbia under 20 well-known banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, and Carrs.Albertsons Cos. is committed to helping people across the country live better lives by making a meaningful difference, neighborhood by neighborhood. In 2019 alone, along with the Albertsons Companies Foundation, the company gave nearly $225 million in food and financial support. These efforts helped millions of people in the areas of hunger relief, education, cancer research and treatment, programs for people with disabilities and veterans outreach.

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