Content Marketing Manager

London, UK (Hybrid)

£70K/yr – £80K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive end-to-end content marketing for life sciences, shaping strategy, production, and cross-functional collaboration to support complex B2B sales.

  • Own the end-to-end content strategy and calendar for life sciences products.
  • Must-have: 5–7 years in content marketing with B2B life sciences focus.
  • Standout: Experience translating complex science into engaging blogs, whitepapers, and videos.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Designing and executing a comprehensive content marketing strategy aligned to Automata’s brand and business goals, particularly targeting scientific and decision-making audiences.
  • Developing a content calendar and producing high-quality content such as blogs, whitepapers, case studies, infographics, webinars, and video scripts to support product marketing and sales enablement.
  • Collaborating closely with product marketing, sales, SEO specialists, creative teams, and subject matter experts to ensure accurate, engaging, and optimized content across multiple channels.
  • Managing the editorial process including content creation, editing, proofreading, and ensuring brand consistency and messaging alignment.
  • Implementing SEO best practices and working with SEO agencies to drive organic website traffic and improve content discoverability.
  • Monitoring and analyzing content performance metrics to optimize and adjust strategies for better engagement and lead generation.
  • Staying current on life sciences market trends, audience preferences, and competitor content to produce relevant, insightful, and differentiated marketing materials.
  • Supporting demand generation campaigns and event marketing through targeted content development.
  • Leading collaboration across marketing teams to integrate content strategy effectively into overall marketing and product launch plans.

Requirements

  • Expertise: Proven track record of developing and implementing content marketing strategies that drive engagement and support complex B2B sales cycles.
  • Industry Experience: Requires 5-7 years in content development and marketing, preferably within life sciences, biotech, or technology sectors.
  • Deep understanding of life sciences and lab automation: Ability to grasp complex scientific concepts and translate them into clear, engaging content for specialized audiences.
  • Content strategy and creation: Expertise in planning content calendars, producing diverse content types (blogs, whitepapers, videos, social media), and ensuring scientific accuracy and brand alignment.
  • SEO/GEO and digital marketing proficiency: Strong knowledge of SEO/GEO best practices, content optimization techniques, and using marketing automation tools effectively to drive organic reach and lead generation.
  • Data-driven mindset: Ability to analyze content performance metrics, conduct audience behavior analysis, and optimize marketing efforts based on data insights.
  • Marketing automation and CRM, CMS tools: Experience with platforms that automate content distribution, lead nurturing, and user engagement across complex sales funnels.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: Skilled at working with product marketing, sales, creative teams, and subject matter experts to develop content that supports business objectives and sales enablement.
  • AI literacy in marketing: Familiarity with leveraging AI for content creation, automation, and data analysis in marketing workflows, combined with strategic thinking to guide AI outputs effectively.
  • Project management: Ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and maintain a consistent publishing cadence.

Preferred

  • Experience managing content across multiple channels and formats, with a focus on educating and influencing technical and executive audiences in scientific domains

Benefits

  • 🍎 Vitality Health Insurance
  • 👀 Eye Care
  • 🚗 Salary Sacrifice - EV
  • 🚲 Salary Sacrifice - Bike & Tech
  • 🧘🏼‍♀️ Wellbeing & Support
  • ☀️ Wellbeing & Development Allowance
  • 💙 Spill & Employee Assistance Programme
  • 😊 Additional Leave
  • 👵🏼 Pension Scheme
  • 🫂 Group Life & Critical Illness cover
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Automata is transforming lab automation for the AI era. We deliver the only fully integrated, AI-ready, easy-to-use platform that is modular, configurable, and open by design. While legacy systems fragment workflows and slow discovery, Automata modernizes lab operations—enabling scientists to program experiments, not robots.Automata is changing how science is done—forever.

Founded in 2015
London, England, GBR
185 employees (10 in marketing)
64% recommend to a friend
87% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
37.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.1%
Direct
44%
Referral
10.2%
Social
5.4%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~181

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (2% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$144.8M
Last Raise
$45M
Series C, 2 months ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2026
    Series C • $45M
  • Oct 2023
    Series Unknown • $40M
  • Feb 2022
    Series B • $50.3M

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