Head of Content

Fort Lee, NJ (On-site)

$225K/yr – $250K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end Content Experience agenda from vision to scale, owning how content drives discovery, evaluation, and conversion across product, storytelling, and commerce. Lead four capabilities (Creative Strategy, Experience Design, Content Production, Content Operations), ensure governance and cross-functional alignment, and push AI-enabled content workflows for scalable growth.

  • Content Strategy & Capabilities: define the vision and build four core capabilities to connect storytelling with customer intent.
  • Operations & Governance: establish standards, localization, lifecycle management, and reusable frameworks across channels.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: align Marketing, Digital Commerce, Analytics, Operations, and Tech around content investments and user outcomes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and execution of an integrated Content Experience strategy that supports customer discovery, evaluation, decision-making, and conversion.
  • Defining the Content Experience vision and roadmap
  • Aligning content and experience initiatives with business objectives
  • Ensuring consistency across customer touchpoints
  • Driving customer-centric decision-support experiences
  • Connecting storytelling, product information, customer needs, and commerce experiences
  • 2. Capability Leadership
  • Creative Strategy
  • Brand and product storytelling frameworks
  • Messaging architecture
  • Customer intent and decision-support content
  • Discovery and conversion content strategies
  • Experience Design
  • Customer journey design
  • Information architecture
  • Navigation and usability optimization
  • Product detail and commerce experience design
  • Content Production
  • Creative asset development
  • Design, video, motion, copy, and visual content creation
  • Modular content production systems
  • Production quality standards
  • Content Operations
  • CMS and DAM operations
  • Content governance
  • Localization management
  • Content lifecycle management
  • Content scalability and reusability
  • 3. Business Impact Ownership
  • Improving content effectiveness and customer engagement
  • Increasing discoverability and conversion performance
  • Enhancing product experience performance
  • Driving content reuse and operational efficiency
  • Supporting revenue growth through improved customer experiences
  • Partner closely with commercial, marketing, digital, analytics, and operational stakeholders to align content investments with business goals.
  • 4. Operational Excellence
  • Establishing content governance standards
  • Improving workflow efficiency
  • Optimizing resource allocation
  • Creating repeatable content frameworks
  • Standardizing processes across channels and platforms
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives that increase organizational effectiveness and scalability.
  • 5. Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Marketing
  • Digital Commerce
  • Analytics & Insights
  • Operations
  • Technology
  • Executive Leadership
  • Ensure alignment between customer needs, business priorities, and execution teams.
  • 6. Team & Organizational Development
  • Talent development and succession planning
  • Capability assessment and development
  • Hiring and workforce planning
  • Coaching and leadership development
  • Performance management
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
  • 7. AI-Enabled Content Evolution
  • Supporting adoption of AI-enabled content workflows
  • Improving content scalability through technology and automation
  • Developing AI-ready content structures
  • Enhancing operational efficiency through process innovation
  • Drive capability adoption and business application of emerging content technologies.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in customer experience, content strategy, digital commerce, creative operations, marketing transformation, or related disciplines
  • Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across content, design, production, and operations
  • Experience managing large-scale digital content ecosystems
  • Strong understanding of customer journey design and content-driven business growth

Preferred

  • Direct-to-consumer and commerce environments
  • Retail and marketplace ecosystems
  • Content operations and governance
  • Customer experience optimization
  • Workflow transformation and operational scaling
  • AI-enabled content environments
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Leap Brands

Leap Brands was founded in 2023 by Chris Wunder and Chaz Cervino, high school classmates that both left thriving careers behind to build a firm that’s dedicated to supporting private equity- backed companies on recruitment, acquisitions and marketing efforts. Since its inception in 2023, Leap Brands has expanded beyond their original roadmap, seizing the opportunity to co-invest with their PE partners, design proprietary software, and execute on their acquisition thesis within the recruiting industry.“Recruiting is fun"

Founded in 2023
Whippany, New Jersey, USA
10 employees (4 in marketing)

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$225K/yr – $250K/yr

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Head of Content

Leap Brands · Fort Lee, NJ · On-site