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Content Strategy and Development Lead, Education

🇺🇸 Mountain View, CA 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $171K - $254K 💻 Marketing 🗓️ March 4th, 2026

Edtech.com's Summary

Google is hiring a Content Strategy and Development Lead, Education. This role involves leading the creation and management of a dynamic content strategy that connects product narratives with execution teams, collaborating across various functions to deliver compelling stories that showcase Google's innovations and goals in learning.

Highlights
  • Design, build, and maintain a scalable repository of story materials and messaging frameworks.
  • Develop adaptable narrative strategies for executive keynotes, policy briefings, social media, and conferences.
  • Collaborate with Communications, Marketing, Public Policy, Research, Product, and Go-to-Market teams.
  • Translate technical AI advancements and research into clear, human-centered stories for diverse audiences.
  • Measure narrative impact and usage to continuously optimize the content library using data-driven insights.
  • Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in relevant fields and 11 years of experience in content systems and organizational change leadership.
  • Preferred qualifications include a Master’s degree in Communications or related fields, experience in AI, education, tech policy, or social impact narratives, and strong storytelling and project management skills.
  • Must demonstrate the ability to influence cross-functional teams and executive leaders without direct authority.
  • Work with executive and cross-functional teams to source and share stories highlighting product innovation and user impact.
  • Compensation range is $171,000-$254,000 base salary plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Content Strategy and Development Lead, Education Full Description

Content Strategy and Development Lead, Education
Google
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Mountain View, CA, USA

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 11 years of experience in designing, launching, and managing scalable content systems, asset repositories, or messaging toolkits for organizations.
  • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and driving organizational change.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree in Communications, Journalism, English, Marketing, or a related field.
  • Experience in Artificial Intelligence, education, tech policy, or social impact narratives.
  • Ability to demonstrate outstanding writing, editing, and storytelling skills, supported by a portfolio that showcases compelling narratives crafted for executive or corporate audiences.
  • Ability to demonstrate organizational and program management skills, including building structure from scratch and managing projects across a matrixed organization.
  • Ability to influence without authority to drive consensus, secure buy-in, and foster the adoption of global, narrative frameworks among executive leaders and cross-functional teams.

About the job
Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.

Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

In this role, you will be the central curator and architect of our content strategy that drives our narrative in its many forms of delivery. Crucially, you will act as the connective tissue between these product stories and our execution engines, collaborating seamlessly with Communications, Marketing, and Public Policy, among many cross-functional partners, to bring these narratives to life across global channels and empower Google teams to tell a cohesive, compelling story.

You will need to establish and maintain trusted relationships with teams across Research, Product, and Go-to-Market, to build a contemporary, flexible, dynamic content strategy and a scalable repository of narratives. Your work will empower Google executives and cross-functional teams to easily discover, iterate, and deliver cohesive, compelling stories that articulate our goals for the future of learning.The US base salary range for this full-time position is $171,000-$254,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities
  • Partner with Research, Product, and Go-to-Market to proactively source stories of learning product innovation, user impact, and ecosystem support.
  • Design, build, and maintain a cumulative, highly organized repository of story materials, proof points, and messaging frameworks that executives and partner teams can easily discover and adapt for various external engagements.
  • Develop an adaptable narrative strategy that scales across executive keynotes, policy briefings, social media, and conferences.
  • Partner with Communications, Marketing, Public Policy, and other outbound teams to transform curated stories into high-impact external moments, campaigns, and executive platforms.
  • Partner with operations to measure the usage and external impact of our narratives, leveraging data to iterate and optimize the content library continuously. Translate technical Artificial Intelligence advancements and academic research into clear, human-centered stories that resonate with educators, policymakers, and the public.