Content Marketing Manager EMEA

Job Description

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development.

Fastly’s customers use our edge cloud platform to ensure concertgoers can buy tickets to the live events they love, travelers can book flights seamlessly and embark on their next great adventure, and sports fans can stream events in real time, across devices. They include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Spotify, Alaska Airlines, Hulu, The New York Times, and Ticketmaster.

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Content Marketing Manager

The Content Marketing Manager - EMEA is responsible for advancing Fastly’s story through thoughtfully crafted content that supports EMEA programs and projects. As a member of Fastly’s content marketing team, you’ll be responsible for partnering with the regional marketing team to identify, prioritize, and deliver high-impact content that supports marketing and sales efforts across the entire region.

The ideal candidate has a passion for storytelling and understands how to influence an audience with the right tone, message, and delivery. You should be curious as a cat (even if you're a dog person). You’ll thrive in this role if you’re a natural collaborator and multi-tasker, eager to roll up your sleeves and own the process of brainstorming, writing, and editing. Your primary goals will be driving lead generation, product education, and brand awareness. But of course, you'll be responsible for owning the coveted Fastly voice across all that you do.

What You'll Do:

• Partner with EMEA marketing team to develop, define and execute content marketing plans, ensuring that activities line up with the overall content marketing strategy.
• Align with the regional marketing team to prioritize campaign scope and timing.
• Create content for all content channels (email, ads, blog, case studies, events, video).
• Identify and understand the stories are that most relevant to local markets.
• Partner closely with your content marketing colleagues to adapt campaign content to best serve your markets.
• Influence and contribute to our editorial calendar.
• Identify gaps and develop plans for missing content.
• Proactively communicate with stakeholders; schedule and hold meetings to drive plans and projects to completion.
• Set clear goals and priorities for content production, proactively communicating objectives, results, and tradeoffs.
• Function as an in-house content expert and advisor by educating and influencing others on content plans and objectives.
• Ensure integrity of Fastly’s brand narrative (voice, style, tone).

What We're Looking For:

• ideally 5+ years in a writing field related to B2B technology at a fast-paced technology company, or at an agency.
• Experience acquiring content from a variety of sources, and developing writing ability of in-house staff (marketers, product managers, engineers).
• Ability to present complex technical concepts in a clear and compelling manner
• Ability to understand target prospect/customer personas and tailor messages for that particular audience — from case studies to landing pages to event collateral, and beyond.
• Can closely collaborate with design shape, define, or adapt to the creative direction; provides great care for how copy works with the design.
• Team player with outstanding communication skills and a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves work ethic; comfortable seeking out relevant internal and external experts and helping shape content opportunities with them.
• Comfortable juggling multiple projects and aggressive deadlines with a propensity for project management and organisational communication.
• Flexibility to work with a globally distributed team, coordinating across locations and timezones — it’d be a huge bonus if you speak French, Spanish, or German in addition to English.
• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications, Technical Marketing, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives . Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
• We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a great addition to our team, please apply and include a link to your online portfolio or a copy of your work so we can get a feel of your style and experience.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

Employment decisions at Fastly are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability*, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Fastly encourages applicants from all backgrounds.

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