Digital Content Manager

About Arc Institute

The Arc Institute is a new scientific institution conducting curiosity-driven basic science and technology development to understand and treat complex human diseases. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Arc is an independent research organization founded on the belief that many important research programs will be enabled by new institutional models. Arc operates in partnership with Stanford University, UCSF, and UC Berkeley.

While the prevailing university research model has yielded many tremendous successes, we believe in the importance of institutional experimentation as a way to make progress. These include:

• Funding: Arc fully funds Core Investigators’ (PIs’) research groups, liberating scientists from the typical constraints of project-based external grants.
• Technology: Biomedical research has become increasingly dependent on complex tooling. Arc Technology Centers develop, optimize, and deploy rapidly advancing experimental and computational technologies in collaboration with Core Investigators. 
• Support: Arc aims to provide first-class support—operationally, financially, and scientifically—that will enable scientists to pursue long-term high risk, high reward research that can meaningfully advance progress in disease cures, including neurodegeneration, cancer, and immune dysfunction.
• Culture: We believe that culture matters enormously in science and that excellence is difficult to sustain. We aim to create a culture that is focused on scientific curiosity, a deep commitment to truth, broad ambition, and selfless collaboration.

Arc has scaled to over 350 people to date. With $650M+ in committed funding and a state of the art new lab facility in Palo Alto, Arc will continue to grow quickly in the coming years.

About the position

As Arc's Digital Content Manager, you'll be responsible for maintaining and improving Arc's web presence, producing multimedia content, and supporting your communications team colleagues in bringing Arc's science to wider audiences. You'll create and coordinate photo, video, and audio content, manage Arc's website and digital platforms day to day, and help ensure Arc's work is discoverable online. You'll work closely with Arc’s researchers, staff, and external vendors to keep our digital footprint accurate, engaging, and current. This is a hybrid onsite role, reporting to the Head of Communications.

About you

• Genuinely curious about science, particularly at the intersection of biology and AI, and motivated to help researchers share their work with the world
• Experienced using content management systems to build and maintain websites 
• Capable multimedia producer who can handle everyday photo, video, and audio needs in-house and manage outside vendors on larger productions
• Knowledgeable about SEO fundamentals and curious about how AI-powered search is changing the way content is discovered and surfaced
• Experienced with web analytics tools and comfortable using traffic and engagement data to inform content decisions and measure impact
• Organized and adaptable professional who can balance routine digital comms support with emerging projects and shifting priorities
• Strong collaborator who can work effectively with multiple stakeholder groups

In this position you will

• Manage and evolve Arc's website in Sanity CMS, handling content updates, page builds, and ongoing improvements to how the site’s front end is organized and performs
• Produce photo, video, and audio content for Arc’s web and social channels, and manage relationships with outside production vendors to ensure quality and alignment
• Support the communications team on digital elements of major announcements, campaign pages, event coverage, and other institutional priorities
• Maintain and evolve Arc's web directory of software and models
• Ensure Arc's content is optimized for discoverability across search engines and AI platforms
• Take on special projects and cross-team initiatives as Arc's communications needs evolve

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Digital Media, or a related field
• 2-5+ years of experience in digital content management, web production, or a related role
• Strong portfolio showing web content, multimedia projects, and examples of site improvements or builds you've managed
• Proficiency with photo editing and basic video and audio editing tools
• Hands-on experience managing a website through a content management system, including making improvements to how content is structured and published 
• Experience with web analytics platforms (e.g., Google Analytics) and a track record of using data to evaluate content performance and guide strategy
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Able to commit to a hybrid onsite schedule

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Sanity CMS specifically
• Familiarity with basic web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript) and a general understanding of how modern front-end frameworks work, enough to collaborate effectively with engineering and infrastructure teams
• Comfort using AI-powered tools 
• Background in research, engineering, or academic communications

The base salary range for this position is $90,750 to $111,750. These amounts reflect the range of base salary that the Institute reasonably would expect to pay a new hire or internal candidate for this position. The actual base compensation paid to any individual for this position may vary depending on factors such as experience, market conditions, education/training, skill level, and whether the compensation is internally equitable, and does not include bonuses, commissions, differential pay, other forms of compensation, or benefits. This position is also eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus, with the amount dependent on individual and institute performance factors.