Content Manager

About This Role

This senior content professional will champion brand voice, tone, and technical consistency across various content channels, including thought leadership reports, client alerts, web announcements, social media posts, advertising, and video and podcast scripts. The role is central to the smooth operation of the content team, overseeing workflow allocation and prioritization. This position requires creative vision and rigorous editorial discipline to enhance global communications, bringing a natural storytelling ability and an instinct for engaging audiences, while also being comfortable with detailed proofreading, editing, and polishing work to the highest standard.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior writer and editor across a full spectrum of content formats, including thought leadership, client communications, web announcements, social media posts, video and podcast scripts, advertisements, and other firm communications
• Act as the team's day-to-day guardian of brand voice and tone, ensuring all content produced is consistent, on-brand, and reflective of Dechert's identity across all channels and formats
• Ensure that the team consistently adheres to the Dechert writing style guide
• Proofread, copyedit and edit work produced by partners and colleagues across the firm, ensuring technical accuracy, adherence to the firm's style guide, grammatical correctness and an absence of errors
• Develop and champion thought-provoking, audience-first content that brings fresh perspectives and creative energy to communications across all channels and aligned to the communication goals of different channels
• Collaborate closely with attorneys, practice group leaders and marketing colleagues to surface the firm's best stories and translate complex legal work into compelling, accessible and persuasive content
• Communicate clearly and diplomatically with stakeholders across the firm regarding editorial changes and content standards, building productive working relationships that support the firm's strategic goals
• Own the triage and routing of incoming content requests— assessing, prioritizing, and directing assignments across the team to ensure workload is distributed equitably, tasks are tiered appropriately by complexity and seniority, and all output meets the team's quality standards
• Monitor content across channels and formats for consistency, accuracy and brand alignment, identifying opportunities to raise quality and deepen impact over time
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in a writing and editorial role, with exceptional writing and editing skills across a wide range of content types and formats, including thought leadership, digital and social content, video scripts, podcasts, advertising copy and web announcements
• Professional services experience in a corporate environment