Thought Leadership & Event Content Lead

Full Time
San Francisco, CA, USA
1 month ago

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. 

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

Please note: We are open to application in Melbourne and Sydney Australia for this Hybrid Role.

Join our dynamic team, where you will collaborate closely with executives, customers, and subject matter experts to develop content strategies and presentations for conferences and events, ensuring messages are understandable, engaging, and aligned with overarching marketing objectives. You'll conduct thorough research to gather data, information, and stories; coach presenters; and seek feedback to continually refine and enhance presentation techniques, ultimately developing best practices and delivering impactful presentations for external conferences and events.

The ideal candidate will have 8 years of experience in Brand, Corporate Marketing, or Communications. You will be successful if you excel in crafting engaging presentations for diverse audiences and possess a deep understanding of HR industry dynamics. You quickly grasp new HR topics and translate them into compelling narratives. Strong communication, storytelling, and confidentiality management skills are essential.

What You'll Accomplish

  • Lead content strategy for global brand event and thought leadership campaigns, ensuring that the overarching content is then reflected in owned and partner events
  • Bring together insights from our marketing activities and customer research to drive the creation of compelling and emotive campaign messaging and overarching brand narratives
  • Craft copy across a broad range of marketing briefs - channels include website, print collateral, digital, video scripts, email, etc. 
  • Brainstorm and conceptualize all manner of projects with the brand and design team, with a focus on marketing initiatives in EMEA/APAC/US
  • Drive event content strategy and messaging briefs with framework, positioning, themes, and session outlines
  • Work with a team of event content owners to ensure messaging and brand consistency and completed within key deadlines
  • Develop recommendations and then align with Marketing, Sales, and Product on key messages and themes for presentations and speaking at external conferences and marketing events
  • Interface with senior executives, clients, and partners to develop effective event presentations with strong consistent messaging addressing mixed external audiences
  • Drive presentation development, working closely with speakers and others to create slides and scripts – ensuring they are at the right altitude, engaging, and refer back to other marketing/event touch points.
  • Research and gather internal and external data, information, stories, and input to support the development of presentation narratives, visuals, and messages
  • Seek out best practices, trends, and styles in all aspects of copywriting
  • Stay up to date on new HR trends and translate them into compelling narratives.
  • Coach presenters and speakers to help craft their talks and presentations based on specific event goals/messages
  • Successfully manage a portfolio of simultaneous projects with different due dates and timelines
  • Collect feedback and seek examples of impactful external presentations to inspire continuous improvement and advance best practices

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or Communications with 8 years of relevant Brand, Corporate Marketing, or Communications experience. HR industry experience preferred
  • Deep experience working with senior executives and subject matter experts in developing key messages and presentations for marketing events and speaking engagements
  • Demonstrated strong experience writing and editing an array of informative and engaging presentations, including executive roundtables, keynotes, webinars, and conference breakout sessions
  • Existing command of HR industry topics and dynamics that impact all personas
  • Ability to search and understand HR topics to provide strong evidence to support presentation messages
  • Comfortable moving between ground level and the 50,000 ft view, ingesting a large amount of siloed information, and translating it into a digestible, compelling presentation or event
  • A creative communicator who likes bringing new ideas and pushing for differentiation but is also practical, willing to get their hands dirty, execution-driven, and consistently meets deadlines
  • Highly accountable project management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills (including with presentation design firms and contractors)
  • High levels of proficiency in MS Word/Google Docs and PowerPoint/Google Slides
  • A natural storyteller with excellent writing skills

For this role, the estimated base salary range is listed below. In addition to base salary, your compensation package will include additional components such as equity and benefits. For sales roles, your package may also include sales commission

The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual skills, capabilities and experience, objectively assessed during the interview process. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role. 

We believe in fair & equitable pay at Culture Amp, and therefore, we build pay equity into all our programs in addition to conducting annual pay equity audits. 

Base Salary Range (US)$136,000—$165,000 USD

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: 

  • Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
  • Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
  • Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
  • Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
  • Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
  • Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
  • Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
  • Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
  • 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
  • MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
  • Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only) 

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it. 

 

 

If you require reasonable accommodations or adjustments due to a disability to complete the online application or to participate in the interview process, please contact accommodations@cultureamp.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.