Senior Manager of Content Marketing
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- Proven ability to connect content strategy to commercial outcomes, revenue goals, and customer needs
- Experience managing and growing high‑performing content teams
- Experience of cybersecurity solutions in the Sophos portfolio, with particular interest in Endpoint, Firewall, MDR and security services
- Strong editorial judgement and exceptional writing/editing skills
- Deep understanding of SEO, content distribution, and multi‑channel strategy
- Strong cross‑functional partnerships and alignment with business priorities
- Ability to create a high‑performing content team delivering consistently impactful, on‑brand content
- Experience of social media platforms and social content creation technologies
- Ability to build strong relationships across cross-functional teams while working remotely
- Ability to translate complex ideas into easy-to-consume outputs
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives, stakeholders, and deadlines with strong project management skills
- Strong communications skills
- Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- As an experienced, outcome-focused Content Marketing leader you will help build and nurture our new content marketing team and elevate how content drives growth across the business
- In this role, you will oversee the content strategy, manage a dispersed content marketing team, and ensure we deliver impactful, high‑quality content aligned to business priorities, customer needs, and brand objectives
- You will play a crucial part in shaping our narrative, supporting revenue goals, accelerating product adoption, and strengthening our presence across key markets
- Through your leadership of our Content Marketing team, you will help convey our brand voice and message, increase engagement with our security, product and customer stories, and drive measurable impact across the audience journey – from prospects and existing Sophos customers to our channel partners and the wider security industry
- This role is ideal for someone who believes in the power of content in accelerating achievement of business goals, loves enabling a team of specialists to turn ideas into real-world outputs, and can translate strategic objectives into content that over performs
- Content Leadership & Strategy
- Own and evolve the global content marketing strategy to support brand awareness, new logo growth, customer expansion, product launches, customer retention, and thought leadership
- Translate business objectives into actionable content plans across the entire buyer and customer lifecycle
- Lead content planning and prioritization across channels, audiences, and regions
- Ensure all content aligns with brand messaging, positioning, and strategic product marketing narratives
- Optimize the use of AI-powered technologies to accelerate content creation, effectively balancing AI with human expertise and oversight
- Team Management & Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of regionally-dispersed content creators
- Establish clear roles, workflows, and metrics to ensure operational excellence
- Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Content Creation & Oversight
- Oversee the development of high‑impact content including thought leadership, whitepapers, case studies, web pages, email copy, video scripts, social content, and more
- Review and elevate content quality, ensuring clarity, accuracy, consistency, and brand alignment
- Partner with our Brand/Creative Services teams to collaborate on the delivery compelling multimedia content
- Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with the wider marketing and Go-to-Market group to understand priorities and turn them into effective content strategies
- Ensure content supports key commercial initiatives such as campaigns, launches, ABM programs, sales enablement, and customer expansion
- Build strong internal relationships to source insights, customer stories, and subject‑matter expertise
- Owns the effective communication of content resources and how to take advantage of them across the marketing and wider go-to-marketing group, ensuring communications are aligned with broader internal communication efforts
- Performance, Analytics & Optimization
- Define content KPIs tied to business outcomes
- Track content performance using analytics tools and deliver regular insights and recommendations
- Drive a culture of experimentation and data‑driven optimization across formats and channels
- Content Governance & Operations
- Maintain a centralized editorial calendar mapped to company priorities
- Oversee content governance, workflows, documentation, and scalable processes
- Manage budgets and agency relationships
Benefits
- Remote-first working model & hybrid options
- We encourage teams to get together in person periodically to help facilitate teamwork
- Flexible start and end times for many roles
- Leadership development program
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Global internal coaching program (Coach Match)
- Periodic Sophos wellness days off for all Sophos to help employees relax and recharge
- Global wellbeing program, which offers a range of wellbeing resources, including Sophos Wellbeing Webinars, Stress Management Toolkits, and Developing Resilience Courses
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for confidential advice and counseling on a wide range of work and personal issues
- Free annual subscription to the Calm app
- Paid parental leave, caregiver leave & bereavement/compassion leave available
- We host some unforgettable social experiences for our global teams including our music festival SOPH-Fest, go-karting, Sophmudder, and incredible holiday parties!
- Our annual global fitness challenge, SOPH-Fit, sees thousands of employees taking part in our virtual global race around the world
- Each quarter, we celebrate our exceptional global team by running the Sophos Values Awards, which recognizes and rewards employees who embody the Sophos values and who we are as a company
- Health care benefits available worldwide
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About Sophos
Sophos is a worldwide leader and innovator of advanced cybersecurity solutions, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies that help organizations defeat cyberattacks.
As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 500,000 organizations and more than 100 million users globally from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more.
Sophos’ services and products connect through its cloud-based Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors.
Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully-managed, turnkey security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation.
Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide.
Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com
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Senior Manager of Content Marketing
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- Proven ability to connect content strategy to commercial outcomes, revenue goals, and customer needs
- Experience managing and growing high‑performing content teams
- Experience of cybersecurity solutions in the Sophos portfolio, with particular interest in Endpoint, Firewall, MDR and security services
- Strong editorial judgement and exceptional writing/editing skills
- Deep understanding of SEO, content distribution, and multi‑channel strategy
- Strong cross‑functional partnerships and alignment with business priorities
- Ability to create a high‑performing content team delivering consistently impactful, on‑brand content
- Experience of social media platforms and social content creation technologies
- Ability to build strong relationships across cross-functional teams while working remotely
- Ability to translate complex ideas into easy-to-consume outputs
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives, stakeholders, and deadlines with strong project management skills
- Strong communications skills
- Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- As an experienced, outcome-focused Content Marketing leader you will help build and nurture our new content marketing team and elevate how content drives growth across the business
- In this role, you will oversee the content strategy, manage a dispersed content marketing team, and ensure we deliver impactful, high‑quality content aligned to business priorities, customer needs, and brand objectives
- You will play a crucial part in shaping our narrative, supporting revenue goals, accelerating product adoption, and strengthening our presence across key markets
- Through your leadership of our Content Marketing team, you will help convey our brand voice and message, increase engagement with our security, product and customer stories, and drive measurable impact across the audience journey – from prospects and existing Sophos customers to our channel partners and the wider security industry
- This role is ideal for someone who believes in the power of content in accelerating achievement of business goals, loves enabling a team of specialists to turn ideas into real-world outputs, and can translate strategic objectives into content that over performs
- Content Leadership & Strategy
- Own and evolve the global content marketing strategy to support brand awareness, new logo growth, customer expansion, product launches, customer retention, and thought leadership
- Translate business objectives into actionable content plans across the entire buyer and customer lifecycle
- Lead content planning and prioritization across channels, audiences, and regions
- Ensure all content aligns with brand messaging, positioning, and strategic product marketing narratives
- Optimize the use of AI-powered technologies to accelerate content creation, effectively balancing AI with human expertise and oversight
- Team Management & Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of regionally-dispersed content creators
- Establish clear roles, workflows, and metrics to ensure operational excellence
- Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Content Creation & Oversight
- Oversee the development of high‑impact content including thought leadership, whitepapers, case studies, web pages, email copy, video scripts, social content, and more
- Review and elevate content quality, ensuring clarity, accuracy, consistency, and brand alignment
- Partner with our Brand/Creative Services teams to collaborate on the delivery compelling multimedia content
- Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with the wider marketing and Go-to-Market group to understand priorities and turn them into effective content strategies
- Ensure content supports key commercial initiatives such as campaigns, launches, ABM programs, sales enablement, and customer expansion
- Build strong internal relationships to source insights, customer stories, and subject‑matter expertise
- Owns the effective communication of content resources and how to take advantage of them across the marketing and wider go-to-marketing group, ensuring communications are aligned with broader internal communication efforts
- Performance, Analytics & Optimization
- Define content KPIs tied to business outcomes
- Track content performance using analytics tools and deliver regular insights and recommendations
- Drive a culture of experimentation and data‑driven optimization across formats and channels
- Content Governance & Operations
- Maintain a centralized editorial calendar mapped to company priorities
- Oversee content governance, workflows, documentation, and scalable processes
- Manage budgets and agency relationships
Benefits
- Remote-first working model & hybrid options
- We encourage teams to get together in person periodically to help facilitate teamwork
- Flexible start and end times for many roles
- Leadership development program
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Global internal coaching program (Coach Match)
- Periodic Sophos wellness days off for all Sophos to help employees relax and recharge
- Global wellbeing program, which offers a range of wellbeing resources, including Sophos Wellbeing Webinars, Stress Management Toolkits, and Developing Resilience Courses
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for confidential advice and counseling on a wide range of work and personal issues
- Free annual subscription to the Calm app
- Paid parental leave, caregiver leave & bereavement/compassion leave available
- We host some unforgettable social experiences for our global teams including our music festival SOPH-Fest, go-karting, Sophmudder, and incredible holiday parties!
- Our annual global fitness challenge, SOPH-Fit, sees thousands of employees taking part in our virtual global race around the world
- Each quarter, we celebrate our exceptional global team by running the Sophos Values Awards, which recognizes and rewards employees who embody the Sophos values and who we are as a company
- Health care benefits available worldwide
Not the right fit? Search for Manager of Content Marketing jobs in Canada, United Kingdom, United States
About Sophos
Sophos is a worldwide leader and innovator of advanced cybersecurity solutions, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies that help organizations defeat cyberattacks.
As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 500,000 organizations and more than 100 million users globally from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more.
Sophos’ services and products connect through its cloud-based Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors.
Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully-managed, turnkey security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation.
Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide.
Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com