Head of content

The Bright team has a strong background in Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences. The team was founded by Avi Patchava (former McKinsey, InMobi), Petko Platchkov (former McKinsey, CommuterClub founder), Varun Modi (former InMobi) and Alexander Seyfert (former Amazon, Yahoo). Bright has raised funding of +$30m from 28 angel investors including investors from Google and Citibank, and 4 Venture Capitalist funds: Sequoia, Falcon Edge, Hummingbird, and Oakhouse partners. The Bright marketing team will develop the production proposition, the positioning, the narrative surrounding Bright, and the brand assets that compliment the product positioning, including community, content and customer stories. As the Head of Content, you will be responsible for building content and attracting readers, and ultimately users to the Bright Content Platform - including strategy, proposition themes, and content development (across media), and editorial of this platform. You will also lead the outreach process to editorial content outlets (content websites, podcasts, newsletters) to develop external content telling the Bright story. You will report to the Founders (or VP-Marketing) directly, based in San Francisco. It has the potential to grow into a VP-level role in the Marketing team within 2 years, with growth of the company and success of this initiative. Example Responsibilities: Own strategy, proposition development and design of the Bright Content Platform working with the product and tech teams within Bright for delivery and set-up Run the Content strategy - week to week: setting themes, topics, target writers and development of drafts. Objective to increase eyeballs and attract user conversions to the Bright system. Lead editorial of all content that is produced Lead the outreach process to editorial content sites (content websites, podcasts, newsletters) to develop external content telling the Bright story. Qualifications: Bachelors’ Degree in Journalism, English, Communications or similar fields 4+ years of relevant experience in content writing for a US audience Ideally, experience writing finance/money related content for users aged 25-40 years (Gen-Y) in the U.S.A The successful candidate will also excel in the following areas: Customer Insight & Innovation: Ensure that you and your team develop innovative content that are grounded in a deep understanding of customer needs. Demonstrated user empathy and ability to investigate sources of user pains Project Delivery: Own the team's execution of individual projects, including producing content to a regular timeline, working with freelancers where needed Customer-centric: using reader insights to drive content decisions Strong bias for action: ability to juggle multiple priorities and create a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment Unique qualities of Bright as a Series A+ company: Founders with strong Financial Services experience: Petko Plachkov and Avi Patchava have a combined +20 years working in and serving financial services companies (including Major Banks, FinTechs, Asset managers, Hedge funds, and Insurance companies) Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences: Varun Modi, Avi Patchava, Avinash Ramakanth and Amit Bendale are Data Science Leaders and co-founders at Bright. Our Leadership team has combined +80 years of experience in building Big data, Data Science and A.I. systems at scale Large Engineering & Data Sciences team that makes great ideas happen: As a young company, Bright has a very large team of Engineers and Data Sciences based in Bangalore, India. Consumer-focus: Bright co-founders Petko Plachkov and Alex Seyfert have spent their careers solving consumer problems, in finance and tech. We are a strong product and tech team, but very consumer centric. Founders interview, survey and run focus groups with consumers, as a weekly habit