VP, Investment Content & Thought Leadership, PPM

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$135K/yr – $162K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 22 hrs ago

Job Summary

Owns the investment content strategy and editorial execution, shaping themes, narratives, and activation across institutional audiences.

  • Owns strategy and roadmap for investment content
  • Partners with PMs, investment teams, and compliance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Investment Content Strategy and Editorial Planning: Owns the investment content strategy and editorial plan across market commentary, white papers, thought leadership, portfolio manager Q&A and interview content, investment narratives, executive bylines, and related editorial standards.
  • Thought Leadership Development: Identifies timely themes, differentiated points of view, and opportunities to strengthen PPM’s voice in the market. Develops high-quality content that reflects the depth of the firm’s investment expertise and is relevant to institutional investors and consultants.
  • Investment Professional and SME Engagement: Partners with portfolio managers, investment teams, and other subject matter experts to prepare for interviews, draw out differentiated insights, and translate investment perspectives into compelling market-facing content.
  • Content Roadmap and Business Alignment: Builds and maintains a proactive content roadmap tied to business priorities, campaign themes, market opportunities, consultant and client needs, and Distribution feedback.
  • Market Commentary: Strengthens the quality, consistency, timeliness, and commercial usefulness of recurring market and portfolio commentary while preserving technical accuracy and investment credibility.
  • Investment Narratives and Messaging: Develops clear, differentiated investment narratives that articulate PPM’s philosophy, process, capabilities, and market perspectives across strategies and asset classes.
  • Editorial Standards and Processes: Establishes repeatable editorial standards, interview frameworks, templates, and content development processes that improve subject matter expert engagement, supports efficient reviews, and reduces reactive one-off writing.
  • Content Activation and Reuse: Structures content for effective reuse across campaigns, presentations, consultant and client communications, websites, social media, executive communications, and sales-enablement materials.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Works closely with Distribution, Product, Investments, Legal & Compliance, Digital, Creative, and other partners to ensure content is accurate, relevant, appropriately reviewed, and aligned with business priorities.
  • Industry Knowledge and Trends: Maintains a current understanding of capital markets, institutional investor priorities, consultant perspectives, asset-management trends, and emerging content practices, translating those insights into practical editorial opportunities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Business, or a related field required.
  • 8+ years of experience in investment writing, investment communications, content strategy, thought leadership, or a related role within asset management or financial services required.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting institutional investment audiences and partnering with portfolio managers, investment professionals, Distribution, Product, and Legal & Compliance teams required.
  • Deep experience writing sophisticated investment content for institutional audiences required.
  • Demonstrated experience developing investment narratives, market commentary, white papers, executive bylines, portfolio manager interview content, or related client-facing thought leadership required.
  • Experience working effectively in a regulated, review-driven asset management environment required.

Preferred

  • Advanced degree or relevant investment industry credential preferred.

Benefits

  • compensated personal time off and holidays
  • health benefits, 401(k) plan with generous matching and other benefit programs according to the Company's employment policies and subject to the formal terms of such plans and programs
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Jackson

Jackson® (NYSE: JXN) is committed to helping clarify the complexity of retirement planning – for financial professionals and their clients. Through our range of annuity products, financial know-how, history of award-winning service* and streamlined experiences, we strive to reduce the confusion that complicates retirement planning. We take a balanced, long-term approach to responsibly serving all our stakeholders, including customers, shareholders, distribution partners, employees, regulators and community partners. We believe by providing clarity for all today, we can help drive better outcomes for tomorrow. Interested in becoming one of our associates? At Jackson, we offer opportunities to take on challenges, get involved in causes that are important to you, and learn from your talented network of peers. Your time and talents get a chance to make a difference that resonates beyond your office and long after the workday ends, supporting our purpose to help American’s achieve Financial Freedom for Life. For more information, visit jackson.com Contact Us 517/381-5500 – General Information 800/644-4565 – Contract Owners 877/565-2968 – Values and Contract Information *SQM (Service Quality Measurement Group) Call Center Awards Program for 2004 and 2006-2024. (Criteria used for Call Center World Class FCR Certification is 80% or higher of customers getting their contact resolved on the first call to the call center (FCR) for 3 consecutive months or more.) Jackson® is the marketing name for Jackson National Life Insurance Company® (Home Office: Lansing Michigan) and Jackson National Life Insurance Company of New York® (Home Office: Purchase New York). Jackson National Life Distributors LLC.

Founded in 1961
Lansing, Michigan, USA
3.8K employees

Salaries

Posted range

$135K/yr – $162K/yr

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$84K/yr

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Marketing Team

Median Tenure
5.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$1.6B
Last Raise
$500M
Post IPO Equity, 2 months ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2026
    Post IPO Equity • $500M
  • Mar 2023
    Post IPO Equity • $550M
  • Jun 2020
    Secondary Market • $500M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
742K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$21.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
10.8%
Direct
47.7%
Referral
1.9%
Social
1.4%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.8K
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VP, Investment Content & Thought Leadership, PPM

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