Executive Director, HCP Omnichannel Content Innovation

9 Months ago • 5 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

Medscape is seeking an Executive Director to lead editorial strategy for omnichannel content innovation, focusing on engaging healthcare professionals (HCPs). This role involves partnering with the marketing innovation team to explore and grow audience engagement methods across various channels and platforms. The Executive Director will collaborate with content and marketing leaders, as well as product teams, to operationalize new concepts. The ideal candidate will possess strong innovation, content strategy, and content creation experience, with a keen eye for audience trends, leveraging data analytics, AI, and social listening. They should also have excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills, a solid understanding of medicine and science, and the ability to drive business goals while managing multiple projects and priorities in a matrixed organization.
Must have:
  • Lead editorial strategy for content innovation
  • Develop test content with creators
  • Model audience engagement for content
  • Test concepts with marketing innovation
  • Identify content innovation opportunities
  • Operationalize successful content ideas
  • Forecast and manage budget
  • Integrate content with business goals
  • Manage teams in a matrixed organization
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years in digital content ideation
  • 5+ years of management experience
  • Strong storytelling and creative thinking
  • Understanding of AI for content creation
  • Experience with diverse content types
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • Knowledge of health/medical topics
Good to have:
  • Demonstrated strong content judgment
  • Advanced editing and storytelling skills
  • Curiosity about audiences and information
  • Ability to interpret statistical data
  • Commitment to integrity and standards
  • Ability to work collaboratively
  • Ability to evangelize change
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • AI prompt creation
  • Portfolio of innovative content strategies

Job Details

Description

Position at WebMD

WebMD and Medscape are the most recognized and trusted brands of health information and the leading provider of health information services, serving consumers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, employers and health plans through our public and private online portals and applications.  The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD, Medscape, MedicineNet, eMedicine, RxList, theheart.org and Medscape Education. Our consumer and professional portals and mobile health applications provide engaging, relevant and credible health and wellness information, personalized health assessment tools and access to online communities.
WebMD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion, sex, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.
Position Summary
Medscape seeks an Executive Director to lead editorial strategy for omnichannel content innovation, with a primary focus on engaging healthcare professionals (HCPs). This position partners tightly with our marketing innovation team to explore and grow our methods of defining, attracting and engaging audiences across our channels and platforms. The Executive Director will partner with other content and marketing leaders, plus product to help operationalize winning concepts.
The Executive Director will have strong innovation, content strategy and content creation experience, plus a keen sense of observation to help spot audience trends as they develop. This role requires leveraging data analytics, AI, social listening and other technologies.
The ideal candidate has strong leadership abilities, excellent communication and organizational skills, and an understanding of medicine and science. This position understands how to drive to business goals.  The Executive Director will also be adept at managing multiple projects and changing priorities and working within a matrixed organization.
This role is based in Atlanta, Newark or Los Angeles and reports to the Group Vice President, Content.
Key role responsibilities:
  • Lead the strategy for editorial innovation and evolution across our platforms and channels
  • Develop test content working with content and design creators
  • Model and project potential audience engagement for content.
  • Work with marketing innovation to test concepts
  • Work across content, product and marketing groups to identify additional content innovation opportunities 
  • Work across groups to help develop plans to operationalize successful ideas
  • Forecast and manage budget
  • Ensure that winning concepts fit tightly with business goals and other product and content supporting them -- ensure that the content universe works together without siloed pieces.
  • Manage people and teams across a matrixed organization
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, Marketing, Design or a related field or equivalent years of expereince.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in innovative digital content ideation and development.
  • Minimum 5 years of management experience across people and programs.
  • Strong storytelling skills and creative thinking about how to engage audiences
  • Understanding of how to use AI to help drive optimal creation.
  • Experience with a variety of content types: text, imagery, multimedia, interactive and channel-drive types (e.g., social)
  • Excellent organizational and project management skills.
  • Deep knowledge of health and medical topics and/or with professional/tailored audiences; ideally with some familiarity with healthcare professional needs
     
Preferred skills:
  • Demonstrated strong content judgement
  • Advanced editing and storytelling skills
  • Curiosity about audiences, ideas and information 
  • Ability to interpret and explain statistical data
  • Commitment to integrity and upholding the highest content standards
  • Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with colleagues 
  • Ability to evangelize change and innovation
  • Strong interpersonal skills and a team player mentality
  • AI prompt creation
  • Body of work demonstrating innovative content strategies

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