Senior Content Editor

Clarivate - Alexandria, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Alexandria, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Project Lead works closely with the Content Teams that are responsible for analyzing, creating, and delivering content that enhances customer research capabilities. In this role, you will drive business-critical projects from inception to delivery while improving processes and managing stakeholder relationships. This position is located in Alexandria, VA and offers a hybrid schedule of 2 days onsite and 3 days remote. As a Senior Content Editor, you will advise Product Management on strategic project choices, ensuring they stay within the overall project budget. You will be responsible for developing creative solutions to complex problems and generating new ideas and concepts. Your role will involve driving the implementation of technological and organizational solutions that scale across the organization, anticipating market trends and demands as they relate to current capabilities. You will advocate for personnel and technical resources across Content groups to ensure project success, manage multiple intra-departmental workstreams, and identify, communicate, and resolve departmental areas of concern that may impede or impact other projects or initiatives. You will manage Content projects from concept through the planning, analysis, design, testing, implementation, and transition phases, driving them forward toward timely delivery and specified requirements. Communication with stakeholders and senior leadership about strategic initiatives will be a key part of your responsibilities, as well as building and maintaining relationships with key contacts in Product Management, UX, Development, and executive leadership. The ProQuest One Team operates within Content Operations and is focused on strategy, execution management, and governance of ProQuest One Products. These products combine dozens of legacy products into a single offering, enabling cross-search and enhancing discoverability. Building PQ1 Products requires coordination among many teams to execute. This role sits on a multi-faceted team that functions as a shared-services group. The Project Lead will report to a Senior Manager (PQ1 Portfolio Manager) along with her three current reports: a Program Manager (portfolio-wide project management), and two Domain Experts (schema, content enhancement, migrations).

Responsibilities

• Advise Product Management on strategic project choices, ensuring they stay within overall project budget.
• Develop creative solutions to complex problems and generate new ideas and concepts.
• Drive implementation of technological and organizational solutions that scale across the organization.
• Anticipate market trends and demands as they relate to current capabilities.
• Advocate for personnel and technical resources across Content groups to ensure project success.
• Manage multiple intra-departmental workstreams.
• Identify, communicate, and resolve departmental areas of concern that may impede or impact other projects/initiatives.
• Manage Content projects from concept through the planning, analysis, design, testing, implementation, and transition phases.
• Drive Content projects forward toward timely delivery and to specified requirements.
• Communicate with stakeholders and senior leadership about strategic initiatives.
• Build and maintain relationships with key contacts in Product Management, UX, Development, and executive leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5 years of experience driving projects forward across multiple departments, delivering results within agreed-upon timelines and budgets.
• 5 years of experience establishing and maintaining collaborative, positive working relationships with all levels of employees and multidisciplinary teams.
• 5 years of experience developing clear and concise 'big picture' view of key problems and offering strategic solutions.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong attention to detail and skilled in critical thinking and problem-solving.
• Demonstrated growth mindset and record of curiosity-driven self-directed learning.
• Facility with operating in an ambiguous environment and adapting to change quickly.
• Demonstrated experience working creatively and analytically to meet business and customer needs.
• Demonstrated effectiveness working collaboratively across internal teams to build processes and scale knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and build consensus.
• Exceptional presentation skills as well as verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity and expertise in industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Experience working in a complicated technical environment.