Content Strategy Manager, BuzzFeed
$100-115k
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Corss-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content
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Corss-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$100-115k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To spread joy and truth across entertainment, news, food, pop culture, and commerce and drive conversation and inspire what audiences watch, read, and buy now - and into the future.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in cross-platform advertising, brand strategy, integrated marketing, or publishing
- Must have experience developing and executing multi-platform programming
- Must be knowledgeable of Complex channels, digital programming, and social content, in addition to a deep understanding of who's who of influencers and celebrities that align with Complex tone and voice
- Exceptional communication, presentation and organizational skills; Keynote, Excel, Word, G Suite skills a must
- Strong account and situational management experience
- Ability to anticipate needs, innovate, multi‐task and excel in a fast-paced environment
- Strong writing and management abilities, in addition to creative and strategic thinking
- Strategic thinker who has an innate sense of urgency, and is able to manage multiple projects at any given time
What the job involves
- Complex Networks is seeking a Manager, Content Strategy responsible for strategizing for all content products under the purview of Complex Networks' SVP of Content Strategy
- Reporting directly to the SVP, duties will include ideating and executing strategy around Complex Networks video programming, as well as special projects that fall under the scope of the editorial, video and social departments
- Set and own the strategic direction of the Complex affiliate program, working with the larger BF affiliate and commerce team to ensure alignment on org and tactical best practices
- Assign and support in the ideation of seasonally and culturally relevant affiliate features and pieces to Complex editors and writers based on agreed upon monthly quotas
- Establish and grow strategic relationships with brand, artists, designers, and notable industry talent, developing and managing partnerships and opportunities for collaboration around brand moments like ComplexLand, ComplexCon, and others
- Work alongside Editorial Creative Director on concept and artistic idea generation for brand moments like Covers, Volume, and larger features. Consider and manage overall content strategy, in consultation with editorial/social/video leads as well as the centralized art/design team
- Provide strategic insight and input around tentpole brand projects like ComplexLand, ComplexCon, Pro-Am, and others to ensure alignment with brand tone and voice
- Help conceptualize, top-edit scripts, and see through execution for Style-focused vertical video working with the Jr Social Producer of Style & Sneakers and the two Style staff writers
- Work with the SVP of Content Strategy and other content stakeholders to help amplify special content moments
- Work both with internal Complex content teams and interdepartmentally across BuzzFeed Inc. to identify and develop opportunities including, but not limited to, press moments, products, and rollout strategies that amplify Complex’s editorial, video, and social content and projects
- Help develop IRL activations around Complex programming that take place during tent-pole events in the industry (Art Basel, Complex Con, Grammy’s, Superbowl, NBA All-Star, etc)
Our take
BuzzFeed is a global digital media company reaching hundreds of millions of readers each month through entertainment, lifestyle, and cultural content. Originally known for pioneering viral internet formats such as quizzed, listicles, and shareable pop-culture stories, BuzzFeed helped define the social-media-driven publishing era and at its peak attracted more than a billion monthly page views.
The company later expanded into journalism with the launch of BuzzFeed News in 2011, which went on to win major accolades including a Pulitzer Prize and multiple industry awards. In 2023, BuzzFeed made the strategic decision to wind down the division as part of a broader restructuring across the digital media industry, instead consolidating its news operations under HuffPost, which the company acquired in 2020 and continues to operate as a profitable newsroom.
Today, BuzzFeed is focused on evolving its publishing model for the next phase of internet media. The company continues to build audiences across platforms like YouTube, podcasts, and social channels, while also investing in new formats, creator partnerships, and AI-powered content tools designed to deepen audience engagement and support long-term growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2021
$150m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2016
$200m
SERIES G
Total funding: $646.3m
Company HQ
Gramercy Park, New York, NY
Leadership
Jonah Peretti
(Founder & CEO)Jonah Founded BuzzFeed in 2006 and has served as CEO since. He is also the co-founder of The Huffington Post.
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