Vice President, Editorial, Content Strategy & Creative Platforms

Bethesda, MD (Hybrid)

$182K/yr – $284K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive global brand voice and storytelling for Marriott Bonvoy across owned channels and entertainment ecosystems.

  • Shape and steward the global brand voice, personality, editorial tone, and messaging framework across all owned channels.
  • Must-have: 12+ years leading editorial and content for global consumer brands with cross-regional teams.
  • Standout: Leadership of a large, matrixed content and social organization in hospitality or lifestyle brands.

Job Description

Drive global brand voice and storytelling for Marriott Bonvoy across owned channels and entertainment ecosystems.

  • Shape and steward the global brand voice, personality, editorial tone, and messaging framework across all owned channels.
  • Champion storytelling is emotionally resonant, culturally relevant, and aligned with brand strategy.
  • Bring brand values, campaigns, and initiatives to life through compelling narratives that work globally while feeling authentic locally.
  • Develop scalable frameworks that support global consistency in voice and storytelling while enabling meaningful hyper-localization across languages, cultures, regions, and sub-brands.
  • Collaborate closely with regional and local teams to empower culturally fluent storytelling that strengthens, not fragments, the global brand.
  • Create editorial playbooks, guidelines, and governance models that enable clarity, cohesion, and creativity at scale.
  • Guide global strategy and execution for all owned social platforms across the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio, including Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, WeChat, WhatsApp, and emerging platforms.
  • Oversee content strategy, publishing models, community engagement, and performance optimization.
  • Champion platform-native, social-first content optimized for discovery, engagement, and relevance.
  • Lead the development of a global content calendar and new ways of working that expand storytelling capabilities for all brand initiatives.
Requirements
  • 4-year degree from an accredited university in Journalism, Entertainment, Film Marketing & Communications, or related major.
  • 12+ years of experience leading editorial, social, and content at a global consumer, lifestyle, hospitality, fashion or culture-driven brand.
  • Deep expertise in social-first storytelling and owned media ecosystems.
  • Proven experience balancing global brand consistency with local cultural nuance.
  • Demonstrated ability to shape and steward a clear editorial voice, with strong instincts around narrative one, and storytelling.
  • Experience managing large, multidisciplinary teams across regions.
  • Demonstrated passion for entertainment, culture, and purpose-driven brand building.
  • Proven ability to operate seamlessly at both strategic and hands-on levels, balancing big-picture thinking with executional excellence.
  • A collaborative, inclusive leadership style with strong influence skills, able to build alignment and momentum across functions and markets.
Preferred
  • Masters in Journalism, Marketing or Communications.
Benefits
  • All positions offer a 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts.
  • Full-time positions also offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, paid parental leave and educational assistance.
  • Washington Applicants Only : Employees will accrue paid sick leave, 0.077 PTO balance for every hour worked and be eligible to receive a minimum of 9 holidays annually.
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