Mercury
Senior Content Strategist
Mercury, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
The Stories team is a small but mighty facet of our Brand team that works on all flavors of storytelling-from content marketing to editorial, social media and more. We're your blog builders, Meridian magazine makers, email strategists, social managers, and video editors, working in close partnership with Design, Copy, Product Marketing, Comms, and other teams across Mercury.
We're looking for a creative and growth-oriented Content Strategist to help us evolve and scale our content programs-and deliver winning results. You're a users-first builder and storyteller who's as obsessed with bringing a new strategic vision to life as you are with the fine details of staging a blog post. You're driven to cut through noise and deliver real value to entrepreneurial audiences-founders, business leaders, and others building business whether they're bootstrapped or venture-backed, mom-and-pop or Silicon Valley, ecomm or SaaS. And you fear no dashboard-you take a highly organized and data-oriented approach to your work, leaving stakeholders cool, calm, and confident that you're not just going to help build something good on paper, you're going to learn, measure, and iterate, too.
In this role, you will:
Write, edit, and ideate across channels including (but not limited to) our blog, social media, and newsletters.Work cross-functionally to develop and support organic content strategies that drive business results while further elevating our brand and delivering real value to our customers and community.Manage select content programs from planning to reporting, assignment to build, and chip in on others, demonstrating an owner's mindset and upholding a high bar for quality.Exercise excellent judgment as you work with freelancers and vendors to help the Stories team produce and manage content at scale.Holistically evaluate content-driven growth opportunities across our content distribution channels, and make recommendations that balance data, customer listening, and heartBe (or become) an Asana megastar, collaborating and communicating process with grace and transparency.You should:
Have at least 8 years of Marketing experience, with a strong focus on multi-channel storytelling, content development, and project management. (While we're looking for strong content marketing experience, we know that can take a lot of shapes-we care less about your titles and more about the realities of the work you've done!)Have impeccable writing and editing skills, with a penchant for bringing technical, financial, or other "formal" topics to life.Have general familiarity with SEO best practicesBe experienced developing effective project and content briefs and working with freelancers and cross-functional teams to accomplish your objectives.Be hungry to learn, build, and deliver best-in-class content, with a bias toward action without ever cutting corners.Be immediately comfortable working with Google suite and project management tools, and at ease learning new tools and platforms quickly.Nice to haves:
Experience working in financial services or fintechFamiliarity with the compliance rigor of working on content in a highly regulated industryExperience working with video, audio, or visual asset creation (or agencies that do so)Social or community experienceTo apply, please complete our application form, and include a cover letter and links to your portfolio, website, or clips. As this is a writing-oriented role, your cover letter is key to helping us understand how you tell stories- we will not consider applications without a cover letter.
The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
US employees located in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $163,500 - 192,300US employees located outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle or the San Francisco Bay Area: $147,200 - 173,100Canadian employees (any location): CAD 148,800 - 175,000
We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.
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We're looking for a creative and growth-oriented Content Strategist to help us evolve and scale our content programs-and deliver winning results. You're a users-first builder and storyteller who's as obsessed with bringing a new strategic vision to life as you are with the fine details of staging a blog post. You're driven to cut through noise and deliver real value to entrepreneurial audiences-founders, business leaders, and others building business whether they're bootstrapped or venture-backed, mom-and-pop or Silicon Valley, ecomm or SaaS. And you fear no dashboard-you take a highly organized and data-oriented approach to your work, leaving stakeholders cool, calm, and confident that you're not just going to help build something good on paper, you're going to learn, measure, and iterate, too.
In this role, you will:
Write, edit, and ideate across channels including (but not limited to) our blog, social media, and newsletters.Work cross-functionally to develop and support organic content strategies that drive business results while further elevating our brand and delivering real value to our customers and community.Manage select content programs from planning to reporting, assignment to build, and chip in on others, demonstrating an owner's mindset and upholding a high bar for quality.Exercise excellent judgment as you work with freelancers and vendors to help the Stories team produce and manage content at scale.Holistically evaluate content-driven growth opportunities across our content distribution channels, and make recommendations that balance data, customer listening, and heartBe (or become) an Asana megastar, collaborating and communicating process with grace and transparency.You should:
Have at least 8 years of Marketing experience, with a strong focus on multi-channel storytelling, content development, and project management. (While we're looking for strong content marketing experience, we know that can take a lot of shapes-we care less about your titles and more about the realities of the work you've done!)Have impeccable writing and editing skills, with a penchant for bringing technical, financial, or other "formal" topics to life.Have general familiarity with SEO best practicesBe experienced developing effective project and content briefs and working with freelancers and cross-functional teams to accomplish your objectives.Be hungry to learn, build, and deliver best-in-class content, with a bias toward action without ever cutting corners.Be immediately comfortable working with Google suite and project management tools, and at ease learning new tools and platforms quickly.Nice to haves:
Experience working in financial services or fintechFamiliarity with the compliance rigor of working on content in a highly regulated industryExperience working with video, audio, or visual asset creation (or agencies that do so)Social or community experienceTo apply, please complete our application form, and include a cover letter and links to your portfolio, website, or clips. As this is a writing-oriented role, your cover letter is key to helping us understand how you tell stories- we will not consider applications without a cover letter.
The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
US employees located in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $163,500 - 192,300US employees located outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle or the San Francisco Bay Area: $147,200 - 173,100Canadian employees (any location): CAD 148,800 - 175,000
We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.
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