WHAT IS A CONTENT MANAGER ?

The Content Manager plays a pivotal role in orchestrating the recruitment and retention efforts of exceptionally skilled Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), ensuring a high caliber of expertise within the team. They drive the development of validation and assessment roadmaps, ensuring alignment with evolving member needs, and manage the production process to maintain high-quality, up-to-date content. The role also involves strategic planning, customer-centric approaches, and competitive analysis to continually enhance the platform's content strategy and meet industry demands.

Need-to-Know Overview of a Content Manager

1. Duties for Content Manager

  • Recruit, assess, hire, and retain best-in-class Subject Matter Experts and assessment writers/vendors
  • Coach SMEs, working through complex instructional, planning, and prioritization challenges, as needed, and managing long-term SME relationships.
  • Develop validation and assessment content roadmaps for target audiences and in collaboration with cross-functional partners, including market gaps that plans will address. 
  • Identify key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Manage production allocations, fill assessment minimums/targets, and monitor assessment production schedules.
  • Guide projects to completion to ensure course publishing targets are achieved.
  • Ensure key assessments are kept up to date as the related skill/tool evolves.
  • Partner with Subject Matter Experts and the assessment production team to continually improve the quality of published content.
  • Understand, evaluate, and consider the Voice of the Customer and participate in research projects to inform daily work.
  • Gathers and summarizes multiple data sources to inform opportunities and improvements and makes recommendations.
  • Anticipate emerging trends in Validation and assessment across the job-seeking and learning industries, and develop strategic plans to meet those needs.
  • Demonstrate and apply competitive insights to content strategy and marketing programs, including identifying nascent threats and inorganic growth opportunities.
  • Support development and refinement of acquisition and assessment production processes.

2. Qualifications for Content Manager

  • A minimum of 2 years finding, hiring, and developing Subject Matter Experts, including providing performance and instructional design coaching.
  • Demonstrated expertise in balancing multiple projects, priorities, and varied demands
  • Demonstrated experience working with assessment content writers.
  • Demonstrated negotiation experience, including negotiating with individual and corporate partners and brands.
  • Demonstrated experience delivering feedback to Subject Matter Experts and helping them improve performance.
  • Demonstrated experience in assessment content development.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate with Subject Matter Experts in a variety of ways and communication styles in order to develop and strengthen relationships.
  • An efficient manager of self, ideas, and projects.
  • Demonstrated high-energy, team-first, positive attitude in an evolving, fast-paced environment.

Editorial Process and Content Quality

This content is part of Lamwork's career intelligence platform and is developed using structured analysis of real-world job data, including publicly available job descriptions, skill requirements, and hiring patterns.

Lam Nguyen, Founder & Editorial Lead, defines the research framework behind Lamwork's career intelligence platform, including job role analysis, skills taxonomy, and structured career insights.

All content is reviewed by Thanh Huyen, Managing Editor, who oversees editorial quality, content consistency, and alignment with real-world role expectations and Lamwork's editorial standards.

Content is developed through a structured process that includes data analysis, role and skill mapping, standardized content formatting, editorial review, and periodic updates.

Content is reviewed and updated periodically to reflect changes in skills, role requirements, and labor market trends.

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