At Curriculum Associates (CA), we believe a diverse team leads to diversity in thinking, making our products better for teachers and students. If you read this job description, feel energized by what you see here, and believe you could bring passion and commitment to the role, but you aren’t sure you meet every qualification, please apply! Above all, we are looking for the right person!

The Content Strategist will own the crafting and execution of the vision for educator content in the i-Ready platform experiences. They will work closely with the editorial, UX, and product management teams to create a shared vision for how content is used and thus should be represented in the experience. The Content Strategist will then become the spokesperson for the content to realize that vision. They will make content easier to organize into navigation, optimized for search (internal and external), delivered in personalized ways, across different channels and user journey stages. They will perform content audits or gap analyses to ensure the uniformity of content and its alignment with business goals across i-Ready products. They will know i-Ready content, spot patterns and trends in the content data and draw conclusions.

The impact you’ll have:

• Collaborate with editorial, UX, and product management teams to ensure a cohesive content strategy

• Setting editorial strategy so content is consistent, compelling, and discoverable across all delivery streams

• Advocate for content strategy, taxonomies, and metadata across the organization by outlining and demonstrating its many benefits.

• Responsible for content audit, content inventory, relationships, and editorial guidelines

• Define taxonomy and metadata recommendations, site maps, content models, workflow recommendations to drive data insights

• Define and manage plans for setting up and managing taxonomies as well as aligning content to the taxonomies

• Define metadata and the approach for tagging content across all areas.

• Effectively present content plans, ideas, and designs to technical and non-technical stakeholders for feedback

• Partner with platform agile teams to deliver enriched content for product releases

• Stay abreast of trends, key issues, competitors, and partner offerings

• Understand the platform and product features and the roadmap to define the underlying content structures and hierarchies, organization, metadata needs, as well as relationships/alignments.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience with content management systems, preferably in Media or Edtech industry.

• Experience with Dublin Core, LTI standards

• Experience developing semantic models

• Minimum of two years’ experience on search engine optimization

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in content strategy and metadata management

• Excellent analytical skills with demonstrated experience turning data into actionable insights

• Experienced in elaboration, defining workflows and process diagramming

• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across stakeholders both technical and non-technical

• Terrific organizational, problem-solving and time management skills

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced software development environment

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Knowledge of EdTech industry is a plus