Content Design Manager
Design, Remote EMEA
About the Team
About the Role
The Content Design Manager will lead and grow a team of content designers, shaping product narratives and delivering clear, engaging, and user-centric content across the Miro experience. This role requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of content design frameworks and principles, who can establish standards and processes that elevate content quality and consistency. Initially, as the team is still growing, the role will require hands-on involvement with a select number of high-leverage projects, contributing directly to high-priority initiatives while shaping best practices.
What you’ll do
- Grow and guide a team of content designers, cultivating a collaborative environment that encourages innovation, promotes continuous learning, and drives the delivery of high quality work
- Be hands-on with a few high-leverage initiatives initially, to balance strategic improvements of content design at Miro with practical application of best practices
- Develop and implement a unified content strategy and set of design principles that prioritise clarity and consistency, aligning with Miro’s user needs and strategic business goals across all digital platforms
- Partner closely with product, design, and engineering teams to seamlessly weave content design into the product development journey
- Champion and advocate for the importance of content design within Miro, effectively communicating its value to stakeholders and aligning content initiatives with high leverage projects and broader company vision
What you’ll need
- Experience: A minimum of 5-7 years of experience in content design, UX writing, or a related field, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership or management role
- Portfolio: A strong portfolio demonstrating a range of content design projects that showcase strategic thinking, user-centered design, and measurable impact on user experience and business outcomes
- Leadership Skills: Proven experience in leading and developing a team, with strong mentoring capabilities and a track record of fostering a collaborative, high-performance work environment
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including product management, UX design, engineering, and marketing, ensuring alignment and integration of content into product strategies
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate ideas and advocate for content design’s role in enhancing user experience and achieving business goals
- Strategic Mindset: Strong strategic thinking skills with an ability to balance user needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility in content design decisions
What's in it for you
- Competitive equity package
- Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
- Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
- Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
- Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
About Miro
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 60M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,800 employees in 12 hubs around the world.
We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!
Check out more about life at Miro:
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lifeatmiro
- Blog: https://miro.com/careers/life-at-miro/all/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mirohq/
At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.
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01. Recruiter Screen
A 30-min interview to discuss your relevant skills, perspective on resilience, experience, and what motivates you to join Miro.
02. Hiring Manager
The hiring manager will meet to discuss your experience and fit for the role by assessing whether you align with the Miro Mindset (Curiosity, Drive, Resilience, Empathy, Cognitive Agility & Accountability). This interview usually takes 90-120 minutes.
03. Skill Assesment
An interactive presentation to see your skills in action, based around a particular case study or business problem.
04. Meet the Team
Here you will meet cross-functional stakeholders, and we will ask evidence-based questions to evaluate how well you align with the role and Miro's values and culture.
05. Leadership Round
Meet a member of the leadership team to discuss Miro’s company values and share your vision for success at Miro.