Senior Manager, Digital Content Strategy

Santa Clara, CA (Remote)

$148K/yr – $260K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 23 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the digital content strategy and editorial governance for ServiceNow, building AI-ready content systems, shaping experiences, and leading governance, optimization, and organizational enablement.

  • Own the strategic framework for how ServiceNow tells its story across digital experiences.
  • Lead editorial strategy, governance, and cross-functional collaboration to improve clarity and customer outcomes.
  • Guide the development of AI-ready content and scalable frameworks that empower teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define Our Digital Narrative Strategy - Own the strategic framework for how ServiceNow tells its story across digital experiences. - Translate business priorities, product strategy, and buying-group journeys into narrative frameworks, content models, and reusable experience patterns. - Ensure every experience reinforces a coherent story while adapting to different audiences, buying stages, and channels. - Develop content strategies that balance customer needs, business objectives, search behavior, and AI discoverability. Build AI-Ready Content Systems - Define structured content models that improve discoverability across traditional search, AI-powered search, conversational experiences, personalization engines, and emerging agentic interfaces. - Develop approaches that make content modular, reusable, and optimized for both humans and machines. - Help shape how ServiceNow's content strategy evolves as AI fundamentally changes how buyers discover, evaluate, and consume information. - Partner with Engineering and Experience Architecture to ensure our content foundation is ready for the next generation of digital experiences. Shape Digital Experiences - Partner closely with Experience Strategy to define the content strategy behind our highest-value customer journeys. - Work alongside Experience Architecture to ensure information architecture, navigation, metadata, taxonomy, and content structure reinforce customer goals. - Collaborate with Product Marketing and Brand to translate messaging into effective digital experiences. - Guide content strategy for flagship experiences including homepage, product pages, solution journeys, launches, campaigns, and emerging AI experiences. Lead Editorial Strategy & Quality - Serve as the editorial steward for ServiceNow's digital experiences, ensuring content is clear, consistent, useful, and aligned with our voice and customer needs. - Establish editorial standards that balance Product Marketing objectives, customer understanding, SEO, AI discoverability, and digital experience quality. - Review high-impact digital experiences and provide strategic editorial direction—not simply line edits—to improve clarity, narrative flow, and customer comprehension. - Partner with copywriters, Product Marketing, Brand, Creative, and UX Writing to elevate the overall quality of ServiceNow's digital storytelling. - Identify duplication, fragmentation, and unnecessary complexity across our digital ecosystem, helping simplify our content portfolio over time. - Bring strong editorial judgment to what belongs on ServiceNow.com, ensuring every experience earns its place and advances the customer journey. Lead Content Governance - Establish scalable governance, standards, playbooks, and best practices that improve consistency while enabling teams to move faster. - Define lifecycle strategies for creating, evolving, consolidating, and retiring content across a complex global website. - Lead strategic content audits and identify opportunities to simplify, modernize, and improve our digital ecosystem. - Develop reusable frameworks and guidance that empower distributed teams while maintaining a consistently high quality bar. Drive Optimization - Partner with SEO, Analytics, and Experimentation teams to understand how content performs. - Use behavioral data, search insights, AI discovery trends, customer research, and market intelligence to identify opportunities and prioritize improvements. - Translate performance insights into actionable recommendations that improve engagement, buying-group progression, discoverability, and conversion. - Champion a culture of continuous experimentation and evidence-based content strategy. Enable the Organization - Build frameworks that empower marketers, product teams, and content creators to develop better digital experiences independently. - Develop guidelines, training, office hours, and governance that improve quality without slowing delivery. - Serve as ServiceNow's thought leader for digital content strategy, editorial excellence, and AI-ready content. - Influence cross-functional teams through expertise, relationships, and clear strategic direction rather than formal authority. What Success Looks Like - ServiceNow communicates with greater clarity, consistency, and confidence across every digital experience. - Buyers find the right information faster and progress more effectively through complex buying journeys. - Content is structured for discoverability across search engines, AI assistants, conversational interfaces, and personalized experiences. - Teams create higher-quality experiences through shared standards instead of reinventing approaches. - The digital content portfolio becomes simpler, more intentional, and easier to maintain. - Editorial quality improves across ServiceNow.com, with clearer storytelling, stronger customer focus, and fewer redundant or low-value experiences. - Content investments are informed by customer behavior, experimentation, and measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

  • 10+ years leading digital content strategy, experience strategy, enterprise content programs, or editorial strategy for large-scale digital properties.
  • Deep experience developing content strategies for enterprise websites and digital experience platforms.
  • Demonstrated success creating content governance, editorial standards, content models, taxonomy, information architecture, or digital publishing frameworks.
  • Strong editorial instincts with proven ability to improve clarity, simplify complex topics, and elevate content quality across large organizations.
  • Experience partnering across Product Marketing, Brand, UX, Design, SEO, Analytics, and Engineering.
  • Expertise using SEO, behavioral analytics, customer research, and market insights to shape content strategy.
  • Strong understanding of structured content, content management systems, and modern publishing platforms.
  • Familiarity with personalization, experimentation, and optimization practices.
  • Excellent communication and executive influence skills with experience driving alignment across cross-functional organizations.

Preferred

  • Experience building content strategies for AI-powered experiences, conversational interfaces, or emerging search paradigms.
  • Experience with enterprise CMS platforms such as Adobe Experience Manager.
  • Experience developing content models that support personalization and omnichannel delivery.
  • Experience leading large-scale website transformations or content modernization initiatives.
  • Background in enterprise B2B technology or SaaS.
  • Experience using AI to accelerate content analysis, governance, and content strategy development.
  • Experience defining digital standards, playbooks, and enablement programs for decentralized organizations.

Benefits

  • health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs.
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ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) makes the world work better for everyone. Our cloud-based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. So employees and customers can be more connected, more innovative, and more agile. And we can all create the future we imagine. The world works with ServiceNow. For more information, visit www.servicenow.com.

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Santa Clara, CA, US
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$148K/yr – $260K/yr

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    Post IPO Equity
  • Mar 2012
    Private Equity • $11M
  • Feb 2012
    Private Equity • $17.9M

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Senior Manager, Digital Content Strategy

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