Director, Content Marketing – Cyber-Security

Sophos

Content Marketing leader at Sophos responsible for building a new content marketing team and elevating growth through strategic content initiatives. Oversee content strategy and enable collaboration across teams.

Posted 5/4/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $141,000 - $235,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber SecurityGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and evolve the global content marketing strategy to support brand awareness, new logo growth, customer expansion, product launches, customer retention, and thought leadership.
Translate business objectives into actionable content plans across the entire buyer and customer lifecycle.
Lead content planning and prioritization across channels, audiences, and regions.
Ensure all content aligns with brand messaging, positioning, and strategic product marketing narratives.
Drive the use of AI in content creation, transforming the way we approach workflows (not just tasks), evolving the role of the team in the AI era, and effectively balancing AI with human expertise and oversight.
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of regionally-dispersed content creators
Establish clear roles, workflows, and metrics to ensure operational excellence.
Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Oversee the development of high‑impact content including thought leadership, whitepapers, case studies, web pages, email copy, video scripts, social content, and more.
Review and elevate content quality, ensuring clarity, accuracy, consistency, and brand alignment.
Partner with our Brand/Creative Services teams to collaborate on the delivery compelling multimedia content.
Work closely with the wider marketing and Go-to-Market group to understand priorities and turn them into effective content strategies.
Ensure content supports key commercial initiatives such as campaigns, launches, ABM programmes, sales enablement, and customer expansion.
Build strong internal relationships to source insights, customer stories, and subject‑matter expertise.
Own the effective communication of content resources and how to take advantage of them across the marketing and wider go-to-marketing group, ensuring communications are aligned with broader internal communication efforts.
Define content KPIs tied to business outcomes.
Track content performance using analytics tools and deliver regular insights and recommendations.
Drive a culture of experimentation and data‑driven optimisation across formats and channels.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven ability to connect content strategy to commercial outcomes, revenue goals, and customer needs.
Experience of cybersecurity solutions in the Sophos portfolio, with particular interest in Endpoint, Firewall, MDR and security services.
Strong editorial judgement and exceptional writing/editing skills
Deep understanding of SEO, content distribution, and multi‑channel strategy.
Strong cross‑functional partnerships and alignment with business priorities.
Experience of using AI for content
Ability to create a high‑performing content team delivering consistently impactful, on‑brand content.
Ability to build strong relationships across cross-functional teams while working remotely
Ability to translate complex ideas into easy-to-consume outputs.
Ability to manage multiple initiatives, stakeholders, and deadlines with strong project management skills.
Strong communications skills
Desirable
Experience managing and growing high‑performing content teams.
Experience of social media platforms and social content creation technologies

Benefits

Comp & perks

Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach.
Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

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Hard Skills & Tools

content marketing strategySEOcontent distributionmulti-channel strategywritingeditingproject managementanalyticsAI in content creationcybersecurity solutions

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcreativitycollaborationcommunicationrelationship buildingcross-functional partnershipsoperational excellencedata-driven optimizationeditorial judgement