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Editorial Lead, Cloud Learning Services

Texas, United States (On-site)

Editorial Lead, Cloud Learning Services

3 Days ago • 5-10 Years • Editorial

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Job Description

The Editorial Lead, reporting to the Director of Content and Portfolio, is a key leadership role within Cloud Learning Services (CLS). This role involves driving the strategy and shape of on-demand and instructor-led content for CLS, working with vendors to ensure quality standards, collaborating with other teams to meet organizational goals, and using user feedback and data to improve content and processes. Responsibilities include defining a content center of excellence, leading strategic initiatives to improve content performance, maintaining style guidelines and running enablement programs, managing stakeholder and vendor relationships, overseeing budgets and resources, and staying informed on learning and development trends. This is an individual contributor role focused on ensuring high-quality, engaging learning content for Google Cloud Skills Boost and other platforms.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
5+ years technical writing in learning settings
3+ years vendor management experience
2+ years editorial leadership in technical learning
Drive content strategy and quality

Good to have:

Experience with L/CMS, authoring tools, style guides
Data analysis and reporting experience
Content quality control program experience
Project management experience
Understanding of adult learning principles and instructional design
Familiarity with cloud computing

Perks:

Bonus
Equity
Benefits

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
5 years of experience with technical writing in a learning setting
3 years of experience with managing vendors, including managing budgets and working within enterprise financial systems
2 years of experience with editorial leadership in a technical learning setting, including driving strategy, stakeholder/partner management, quality assurance, process optimization, and executive-level written/verbal communications

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with learning content management systems (L/CMS), content authoring/editing tools, and style guide software
Experience with data analysis and reporting
Experience running content quality control programs
Experience with project management (e.g., developing project plans, tracking progress, meeting deadlines)
Strong understanding of adult learning principles and instructional design
Familiarity with cloud computing technologies and concepts

About the job

The Editorial Lead, reporting to the Director of Content and Portfolio, is a key leadership role within Cloud Learning Services (CLS). In partnership with the CLS Portfolio lead, you’ll drive the shape of on-demand (delivered through Google Cloud Skills Boost, YouTube) and instructor-led content for CLS.

In this role, you work with vendors to ensure content quality standards are adhered to and collaborate with other teams to ensure content meets organizational goals. You focus on the needs of our learners using user feedback and content performance data to drive content, process, and tooling improvements. You'll lead enablement efforts to ensure that CLS has a single shared understanding of what quality means, and how we get there.

The Editorial Lead also stays updated on learning content trends to maintain content that is easy to find, delightful to take, and frictionless to create and maintain.

This is an individual contributor role.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $156,000-$234,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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Responsibilities

Define the vision and strategy for a content center of excellence to maintain quality standards and a single voice in distributed content development.
Lead strategic initiatives, using activity data and user feedback to improve content performance against objectives (relevant, accurate, inclusive, delightful).
Maintain style and voice/tone guidelines, and run enablement programs to continuously improve content development skills of Google Cloud Skills Boost content creators across Google Cloud.
Manage stakeholder relationships, oversee vendor relationships, manage budgets and resources, and scale processes to extend content creation beyond CLS.
Stay informed about current trends and innovations in learning and development.

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$156.0K - $234.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$195.0K/yr avg.

Austin, Texas, United States

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