Vice President-Content Marketing, Editorial and Thought Leadership

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$124K/yr – $190K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and orchestrate the Payments thought leadership content program across editorial ecosystems, balancing audience needs with business priorities and multi-channel delivery.

  • Content Strategy and Roadmap: Define and own signature themes, franchises, and distribution for maximum editorial impact.
  • Cross-Functional Execution: Align product, regions, and sales to GTM and campaigns across owned, earned, paid, social, SEO, and comms channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities
  • Set and own the thought leadership strategy for Payments, ensuring content programs are aligned to business priorities, tailored to audience needs, and consistent across the editorial ecosystem.
  • Build and run an integrated content roadmap and pipeline (signature themes, distinct franchises, commissioning, production, distribution).
  • Lead editorial planning and calendars, ensuring clear prioritization, stakeholder alignment across product, regions, and sales, and timely delivery.
  • Define category-leading themes and narratives that are differentiated in a crowded market.
  • Oversee end-to-end content development (including concepting, writing/editing, data-led storytelling, video, podcasts, long-form) with high creative standards. Deliver with newsroom precision, speed, and agility.
  • Partner cross-functionally (product, sales, regions, and channel owners) to deliver the thought leadership roadmap, with clear alignment and support of GTM and campaigns across integrated channels (owned, earned, paid, social/digital, SEO/GEO, comms/media, influencers/advocates, and sales enablement).
  • Drive the digital/channel evolution of content priorities (e.g., microsites, content hubs, newsroom) to create a unified client journey and maximum impact.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team accountable for editorial program delivery.
  • Manage agency and partner relationships and provide editorial direction to internal teams and external partners to champion and advance narratives and ensure content cohesion.
  • Leverage audience research, competitive benchmarking, creative testing, and performance insights to continuously optimize topics, formats, and channel strategy.
  • Apply AI tools and principles thoughtfully to scale and accelerate production without compromising quality, depth, or brand voice.

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