Audience & Content Growth Lead, SMB Ads

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$227K/yr – $252K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own and scale the SMB content program by driving the editorial strategy, creating educational customer stories and playbooks, and leading cross-functional, cross-market execution with measurable impact.

  • Define strategy and roadmap for SMB content and education.
  • Lead cross-functional storytelling, education programs, and distribution to grow audiences and action.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • - Set the global SMB content strategy and editorial roadmap, grounded in customer needs, industry priorities, and advertiser maturity.
  • - Create compelling customer stories, case studies, vertical playbooks, guides, videos, and thought leadership that make advertising accessible and actionable.
  • - Launch repeatable education programs through webinars, expert sessions, workshops, and on-demand learning that help businesses get started and improve their advertising.
  • - Grow audiences through owned, shared, and partner channels. Build distribution plans with web, social, growth, lifecycle, and regional teams.
  • - Develop creator-, expert-, and customer-led programs that combine credible education, authentic storytelling, and relevant audience reach.
  • - Scale programs across markets with regional teams. Adapt formats, languages, customer stories, and distribution to local needs.
  • - Lead editorial planning, production, agencies, and creative contributors. Maintain quality, accessibility, and accuracy, using AI to support content creation, adaptation, and reuse.
  • - Measure audience quality, engagement, learning, and advertiser action with Growth, Lifecycle, and Data Science. Use experiments and feedback to improve content and distribution.

Requirements

  • - Bring 10+ years of experience in content marketing, audience development, or customer education, including programs for SMBs or advertisers.
  • - Demonstrate ownership of content creation and distribution that grows relevant audiences and drives customer action.
  • - Translate complex products into clear, engaging content through strong editorial judgment and storytelling.
  • - Build repeatable programs across formats such as webinars, video, customer stories, vertical playbooks, and creator-led content.
  • - Lead cross-functional and partner-led distribution, aligning teams around shared priorities and measurable outcomes.
  • - Measure learning, intent, and business impact alongside content consumption.
  • - Adapt global programs to different markets and audiences in partnership with regional teams.
  • - Combine strategy with hands-on writing, editing, creative briefing, and program execution.

Preferred

  • Bring experience with advertising platforms, marketplaces, or technology businesses serving SMBs.
  • Build on experience in advertiser education, customer advocacy, creator partnerships, or partner-distributed learning.
  • Draw on experience in both established technology organizations and startup or zero-to-one environments.
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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership.At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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$227K/yr – $252K/yr

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$189B
Last Raise
$110B
Corporate Round, 17 days ago

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    Corporate Round • $110B
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    Corporate Round • $1B
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    Secondary Market • $6.6B

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Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2M
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Referral
9.4%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.3%

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