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Content marketing team manager
Canonical
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Key highlights
- Base pay varies by location, level of experience, knowledge and skills; includes annual compensation review
- Minimum 5 years of content experience and 2 years of management experience required
- Fully remote work environment
- Personal learning & development budget of $2,000 USD per year
- Portfolio of written work required
- Eligibility for annual bonuses and sales incentives
Role overview
Canonical is looking for a content marketing lead who will develop and execute the company’s content strategy, manage a team of writers and strategists, and ensure high-quality, SEO‑optimized, brand‑aligned content across all channels.
Responsibilities
- Lead the content marketing efforts and manage a team of writers and content strategists
- Develop and execute a content marketing strategy that aligns with business goals, SEO and brand
- Manage the content calendar end-to-end, ensuring efficient production with minimal friction and clear processes
- Ensure content quality, consistency and brand alignment in everything produced
- Collaborate with web and growth engineering teams to optimize content for search and AI engines, leveraging GEO and SEO expertise
- Supervise quarterly content planning sessions and work closely with content specialists, product management and marketing to optimize content plans
- Monitor and report on KPIs for the content program and use analytics tools to identify improvement opportunities
- Align messaging to ensure integrated campaign support across channels, working closely with marketing, product and brand teams
Requirements
- At least 5 years of work experience in content or related roles, preferably at technology companies
- Minimum 2 years of experience as a manager or team lead
- Proven experience creating authoritative and engaging content with a portfolio of written work required
- Applied knowledge of GEO and SEO, experience with relevant tools and SEO‑driven content calendars
- Excellent project management and interpersonal skills with the ability to create highly efficient processes for content production and reuse
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or a relevant discipline
- Passion for technology and open source
- Problem‑solving mindset with a willingness to tackle challenges and see projects through to completion
- Attention to detail and appreciation for quality and standards with adaptability when needed
Benefits
- Fully remote working environment – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of $2,000 USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Parental leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at sprints
- Eligibility for annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilization
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
- Platform Ubuntu is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT
- Customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors
- The company is founder‑led, profitable and growing
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries with few office‑based roles
- Teams meet 2–4 times yearly in person in interesting locations around the world
- This role is home based in the EMEA region
- This role reports to the Director of Communications
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer