Associate Director leading enterprise content strategy, governance, migration, and AI-search initiatives. Helping Verndale’s digital experience clients improve discoverability, personalization, and measurable growth.
Responsibilities
Lead content strategy workstreams across discovery, design, build, migration, and optimization programs
Oversee editorial content strategy, including inventories, assessments, transformation strategy, message planning, and editorial planning
Oversee UX content strategy, including audits, gap analyses, taxonomies, content hierarchies, copy planning, and content planning for design and migration
Oversee delivery content strategy, including content matrices, governance models, workflows, guidelines, migration support, and authoring guidance
Facilitate client workshops, stakeholder interviews, content working sessions, and alignment meetings
Present deliverables, recommendations, project updates, and decision points to marketing, digital, technology, and executive stakeholders
Design content approaches supporting AI Search, AEO, GEO, personalization, site search, related content, filtering, and content reuse
Develop structured, governed, machine-readable content strategies, including taxonomy, metadata, schema guidance, content models, prompt-ready source content, and reuse patterns
Use AI tools for inventories, audits, gap analyses, taxonomy exploration, migration mapping, content QA, prompt testing, answer testing, and performance review
Influence adoption and improvement of content-related AI tools with Strategy, SEO and AI, Personalization, Analytics, Experience Design, and Technology teams
Define and improve content lifecycle processes from planning through retirement
Set content quality standards, review criteria, performance indicators, and documentation practices
Identify process gaps, quality risks, ownership issues, and workflow blockers and recommend improvements
Use analytics and performance data to assess content effectiveness and guide planning, optimization, and governance
Develop taxonomies, metadata models, tagging strategies, and structured data approaches
Guide information architecture, navigation strategy, sitemaps, content hierarchy, page-level planning, and design inputs
Lead content migration strategy, including inventories, keep/edit/kill analysis, mapping, matrices, models, authoring requirements, and readiness
Establish repeatable methods and level-of-effort guidance for taxonomy, information architecture, and migration work
Partner with Business Development, Client Services, and Practice Leads on proposals, pitches, and active accounts
Scope and estimate content strategy activities
Contribute to packaged offerings, delivery standards, templates, case studies, POVs, and thought leadership
Serve as a senior content strategy voice and escalation point on strategic accounts
Identify opportunities to grow content strategy revenue
Coach cross-functional teammates and create enablement materials
Build AI-assisted content workflow fluency across the practice
Requirements
8+ years of experience in content strategy, content design, content operations, digital strategy, or a closely related discipline
3+ years of experience leading workstreams, mentoring content strategists, enabling cross-functional teams, or guiding client stakeholders
Deep experience across editorial content strategy, UX content strategy, delivery content strategy, content governance, and content operations
Strong knowledge of digital redesigns, platform implementations, CMS programs, content migrations, and enterprise digital transformation activities
Experience with content management systems and digital platforms such as Sitecore, Optimizely, Adobe Experience Manager, Contentstack, Drupal, WordPress, or similar systems
Ability to create taxonomies, metadata models, content models, information architecture inputs, content matrices, migration plans, and governance documentation
Practical experience using generative AI and LLM-based tools for content strategy, content operations, research synthesis, content QA, taxonomy development, migration planning, and optimization
Readiness to build AI-assisted tools and workflows, including reusable prompts, review protocols, QA checklists, source-of-truth practices, and team enablement materials
Working knowledge of AI Search, AEO, GEO, site search, personalization, structured content, and measurable experience performance
Experience defining content quality standards, performance measures, review criteria, and lifecycle processes for complex content programs
Comfort using analytics, search data, content performance data, and qualitative research to inform recommendations
Ability to facilitate workshops, lead client conversations, influence stakeholders, and present executive-ready recommendations
Experience scoping and estimating content strategy work for proposals, statements of work, and active engagements
Strong writing, storytelling, documentation, and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, English, Journalism, Digital Strategy, UX, Information Science, or a related field preferred, or commensurate experience
Experience in an agency, consulting, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, higher education, or other complex stakeholder environment preferred
Benefits
Regular training and professional development
Generous paid company holidays
Vacation and paid sick time starting on day one
Health insurance
Monthly perks customized to meet individual employees’ needs
Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Life insurance
Disability coverage
RRSP savings plan
Company-paid holidays
Personal time off
Flexible/remote work options
Support for work/life balance
Diverse, respectful, and inclusive company environment
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