Content Lead

What you’ll do

• Own the content production pipeline for Profound University from research and outlining through scripting, review, and final delivery to production
• Write and structure course lessons, modules, and certification tracks rooted in Marketing Engineering as a discipline, not product walkthroughs, but structured thinking that makes someone genuinely effective in the field
• Arc learning paths across introductory, practitioner, and advanced tiers with deliberate difficulty scaling and clear competency gates
• Build and manage the production calendar so courses ship on a predictable cadence without sacrificing rigor
• Coooperate with Data, Research, AI Strategy, and Product teams to translate evolving frameworks, product capabilities, and field insights into current curriculum
• Design assessments that test applied competency including recorded walkthroughs, live builds, diagnostic exercises, and capstone projects
• Write certification rubrics and grading criteria that are defensible, specific, and draw real lines between skill levels
• Continuously version and update existing courses as the discipline, platform, and market evolve
• Build repeatable systems and templates that allow course production to scale beyond a single person

Who you are

• 4 or more years of experience in content marketing, content strategy, editorial operations, or educational content production at a high-growth startup, technology company, or learning platform
• Experience building or significantly contributing to a content operation, owning systems such as editorial calendars, production workflows, quality standards, and throughput
• Exceptional writer who can take complex, ambiguous, and technical material and turn it into structured, clear lessons that teach someone how to actually do the work
• Experience working with on-camera talent or subject matter experts to produce video or multimedia content
• Organized operator who can manage production timelines, multiple concurrent projects, and cross-functional dependencies without dropping threads
• Comfortable using AI tools in your workflow for drafting, research, and iteration while maintaining high editorial standards
• Deep curiosity about AI, search, and how information discovery is changing
• Motivated by learner outcomes above all else, with a focus on whether learners can apply what they learn
• Comfortable shipping at high volume without sacrificing quality and understanding how to build systems that support both

Location

This is an on-site role based in our Union Square, NYC office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact.

Note

All official communication from Profound will come from a @tryprofound.com email address. If you're contacted by anyone using a different domain, please disregard and report it as spam.