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Sr. Director, Content & Creative
Susan G. Komen
Chicago, IL (Remote)Full time$111K/yr – $142K/yr
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Sr. Director, Content & Creative
Chicago, IL (Remote)
$111K/yr – $142K/yrSenior LevelFull time
Posted 2 months ago
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Job Summary
Own the organization’s content strategy and storytelling across brand, mission, community, and fundraising, turning audience insight into cohesive, multi-format narratives that resonate with diverse stakeholders.
- Content Strategy & Governance: Develop a unified plan, editorial calendar, and voice that drives campaigns, partnerships, and audience engagement.
- Editorial & Creative Leadership: Guide writers, designers, and producers to produce authentic, inclusive storytelling across digital, print, and emerging formats.
- Audience-Centric Distribution: Align content with audience discovery patterns and measure impact to improve visibility and reach.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a unified content strategy aligned with brand, mission, community development, corporate development, fundraising and audience goals.
- Oversee creation of core content and messaging for campaigns, mission initiatives, fundraising programs, partnerships, digital platforms, and multi-format storytelling
- Build editorial strategy and content calendars
- Maintain governance for voice, tone, clarity, accessibility, and content quality,
- Ensure content strategy reflects how different audiences discover, consume, and engage with content across channels and platforms.
- Integrate search and discoverability into content and creative strategy to improve visibility, engagement and reach.
- Shape forward-thinking creative approaches that bring the brand to life across digital, social, print, and emerging channels.
- Guide the ongoing refinement of the organization’s visual identity, ensuring it remains contemporary, cohesive, and aligned with brand strategy.
- Lead the development of compelling creative concepts and high-quality assets that support priority initiatives
- Provide clear conceptual vision and creative leadership to designers, writers, and producers to ensure work resonates deeply with key audiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s/MFA or equivalent experience a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years in content strategy, creative direction, storytelling, editorial leadership, or related fields.
- Experience managing integrated content and creative teams
- Portfolio demonstrating excellence in multi-format storytelling (written, visual, video, social, and audio/podcasting, emerging formats).
- Strong understanding of audience behaviors, content performance metrics, and digital engagement trends.
- Expertise in narrative development, brand voice, visual design systems, and digital-first creative.
- Excellent conceptual thinking, writing, communication, and creative leadership skills.
- Experience managing agencies, production partners, or creative vendors.
Preferred
- Master’s/MFA or equivalent experience a plus.
Benefits
- Approximate salary of $111,000 - $142,000/annual, exact compensation ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job level, internal equity and budget. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's skills, experience and geographic location.
- Health, dental, vision and a retirement plan with a 6% employer match
- Unlimited PTO plan
- Flexible work arrangement in a fully remote working environment
- Bi-weekly work from home stipend
Susan G. Komen
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In 1980, Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. Two years later, that promise became the Susan G. Komen® organization and the beginning of a global movement. For over 40 years, we've led the way funding groundbreaking research, community health initiatives and advocacy programs in local communities across the U.S. and in more than 30 countries. And with your help, we’ll continue pushing for progress to end breast cancer every day, until it’s a thing of the past. For information on breast cancer and breast health, please call: 1-877- GO KOMEN or visit http://komen.org/Join us on social media:Facebook: www.facebook.com/SusanGKomenTwitter: www.twitter.com/SusanGKomenInstagram: @SusanGKomenPinterest: www.pinterest.com/SusanGKomenBlog: blog.komen.org
Founded in 1982
Dallas, Texas, USA
996 employees (85 in marketing)
48% recommend to a friend
64% CEO approval
Traffic Signals
Monthly Visitors
359.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$123.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
54.4%
Direct
34.9%
Referral
6.9%
Social
2.2%
Paid
1.4%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~1K
Marketing Team
Marketing Team Size
71 (7% of company)
Funding
Total Funding
$45K
Last Raise
$45K
Grant, 1 years ago
Funding History
- Jan 2025Grant • $45K
- Jun 2023Grant