About the Role
Lead our global editorial agenda and build systems to scale high-quality content across Payhawk. This player-coach role involves owning top-of-funnel content programs, strategic writing and editing, and enabling other teams through clear workflows, tools, templates, and standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead global content strategy, defining themes, problems, and perspectives Payhawk should own.
- Define the editorial plan based on company, customer, market, and product insights.
- Build a coherent top-of-funnel narrative across brand, platform, products, customers, and leadership.
- Own the global content calendar, resolving competing priorities, duplication, and timing conflicts.
- Create flagship content including original research, reports, customer-story campaigns, thought leadership, newsletters, event-led content, and selected video formats.
- Turn customer conversations, events, leadership insight, and proprietary evidence into distinctive content.
- Design reusable content programs for various channels, formats, regions, and buyer stages.
- Write and edit Payhawk’s most strategically important content.
- Build an AI-enabled content operating system by identifying opportunities for AI, automation, and process design to improve content quality, speed, and capacity.
- Build repeatable workflows for research, briefing, drafting, repurposing, localization, review, distribution, and performance analysis.
- Create reusable prompts, templates, playbooks, quality checks, and structured knowledge sources.
- Combine AI tools, automation, and human review to protect accuracy, originality, brand consistency, and trust.
- Evaluate new tools based on measurable business value.
- Train teams to use content systems and track adoption.
- Enable teams to self-serve by providing workflows and tools for Product Marketing, SEO, Demand Generation, and regional teams to create product and mid-funnel content.
- Define clear ownership, handoffs, and review requirements for content creation.
- Build self-service toolkits for repeatable formats like explainers, campaign assets, localization, and executive social content.
- Reduce reliance on the central content team without lowering quality.
- Lead the content function by managing, coaching, and developing a small team of content managers.
- Set clear priorities, standards, and development goals for the content team.
- Manage external writers, creators, agencies, and production partners.
- Build a content model that scales through systems, expertise, and enablement rather than headcount alone.
Requirements
- 7–10 years of experience in B2B content marketing, editorial, brand publishing, or a related discipline.
- Native-level English proficiency with excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.
- Experience leading a content team or function.
- Experience in SaaS, fintech, enterprise technology, financial services, or another complex B2B category.
- Experience creating content for senior business audiences.
- Evidence of building repeatable content processes and operating models.
- Experience working across Brand, Product Marketing, SEO, Demand Generation, Sales, Web, Design, and regional teams.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to challenge low-value requests.
- Advanced practical experience using large language models.
- Experience building repeatable, multi-step AI workflows.
- Strong prompt, context, and knowledge-management skills.
- Experience with no-code or low-code automation tools.
- Understanding of human review, AI quality evaluation, and governance.
- Ability to document workflows and train others to use them.
- Ability to translate content needs into requirements for technical or systems teams.
- Experience with APIs, agentic workflows, retrieval systems, scripting, automated claims checking, or AI evaluation frameworks is useful, but not required.
Skills
- Content Strategy
- Editorial Planning
- Content Creation
- Content Editing
- AI Enablement
- Automation
- Workflow Design
- Prompt Engineering
- No-code/Low-code Tools
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Leadership
- SaaS Marketing
- Fintech Marketing
- B2B Marketing
Location
- New York
- London
- Berlin
- Munich
- Barcelona
- Paris
- Amsterdam
- Vilnius
- Sofia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7-10 years
- Team Lead
Benefits
- 30 days holiday paid leave
- A week exchange policy to another Payhawk office
- Sports card fully funded
- Regular team-wide events
- 150EUR of monthly commuting allowance
About the Company
- Payhawk is a leading global spend management solution for scaling businesses.
- Headquartered in London, Payhawk combines company cards, reimbursable expenses, and accounts payable into a single product.
- Its future-facing technology enables finance teams to control and automate company spending at scale.
- The Payhawk customer base includes fast-growing and mature multinational companies in 32 countries.
- Payhawk has offices in New York, London, Berlin, Munich, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Vilnius, and Sofia.
- Payhawk is backed by renowned investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks, QED Investors, Bek Ventures, and Eleven Ventures.
- Company values include supporting flat hierarchies, taking ownership and responsibility, seeking and providing feedback, managing constructive critique, and speaking our minds.
- The company encourages diversity and inclusion.
- The future of fintech is about more than money, and Payhawk believes in work-life balance, continual learning, and empowered teams.
- Payhawk is on a journey to measure and improve its environmental and social impact.
- Software and automation help take paper out of the equation for customers.
Equal Opportunity
- Payhawk is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
