Director Content Marketing

Pleasanton, CA (Hybrid)

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

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

AI-enabled content systems and enterprise storytelling ownership for omnichannel personalization and scalable content creation.

  • Content architecture and governance for modular, metadata-driven experiences across brand, channels, and campaigns.
  • Lead AI tooling and standards to enable scalable content creation, versioning, and personalization with product, engineering, and legal guardrails.
  • Partner with creative, CRM, and channel teams to align narratives and delivery across paid, owned, and retail touchpoints.

Job Description

Responsibilities - Content Strategy & Architecture - 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. AI ‑ Enabled Content Systems & Innovation - 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. - Develop enterprise standards for Ai tools to be scalable for the enterprise; including close partnership with key stakeholders like Legal, Shopper Experience and Division teams. - Drive innovation in dynamic content, predictive content models, and generative AI applications to support personalization at scale. - Develop and maintain a scalable content ecosystem that supports always‑on personalization across email, app, site, retail media, and paid media. - Partner with CRM, Loyalty, and Digital teams to ensure content is modular, metadata‑driven, and optimized for personalization engines. Creative Leadership - Manage small team of Sr Designers to create and/or refresh brands and/or sub-brand identifies in company portfolio. - Direct Sr Designers to develop 360 digital marketing tactics across customer journey including: Paid, CRM, app/web and in-store. - Partner closely with The Collective (Albertson’s Media Network) to ensure brand guidelines are adhered across all vendor funded initiatives inclusive of digital media, owned channels, in-store and social influencer content. - Define roles, responsibilities, and workflows across internal and external teams to ensure clarity and efficiency. - Oversee agency performance, ensuring output meets brand standards, operational requirements, and campaign objectives. - Manage budgets, scopes, and timelines associated with content development and production. - Serve as the lead for creative, content, and production agency partners. Operational Excellence & Process Management - Implement measurement frameworks to evaluate content performance, operational efficiency, and creative effectiveness, partnering with data science, data analytics and CAMI (Customer Analytics Market Intelligence) teams. - Partner closely with Brand Marketing Ops team, Product, and Marketing Operations to streamline processes and remove friction across teams. - Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and brand standards across all content.
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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.

Founded in 1915
USA
52K employees (1,722 in marketing)
47% recommend to a friend
47% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$123.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29%
Direct
63.6%
Referral
5.5%
Social
0.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~52.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
910 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
20 years
Median Tenure
19.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

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