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Director of Content Marketing

San FranciscoRemoteFull-time

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The Director of Content Marketing leads and elevates Samba’s content strategy end-to-end by building and managing a high-performing editorial newsroom, shaping brand stories, and producing multi-format content that showcases TV and digital viewership data, AI/ML innovations, and ad tech products.

About this role

Samba is an AI-powered media intelligence company on a mission to give marketers the complete picture of their audiences. Our AI indexes media consumption across millions of smart TVs and 2.5 billion web pages, combining that data with third-party signals through the Samba Knowledge Graph, a map of the real interests, behaviors, and purchase intent of 1.5 billion user profiles globally. Brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms use Samba to make smarter decisions across every stage of the marketing funnel.

Samba is looking for a Director of Content Marketing to lead and elevate our content strategy end-to-end. In this role, you will build a high-performing content engine, our own editorial newsroom, powered by Samba’s unmatched media intelligence across TV, web, and emerging platforms. You’ll shape the stories that define our brand, showcasing our industry-leading TV and digital viewership data, AI/ML innovations, agentic workflow solutions, and next-generation ad tech products.
As a senior leader operating at the intersection of advanced AI technology and programmatic advertising, you will translate complex data science concepts into clear, compelling content that engages advertisers, agencies, publishers, and technology partners. You will own the full content lifecycle from ideation to distribution, while partnering closely with Product Marketing, PR, Sales, Technical teams, and executive leadership to ensure alignment and impact across the organization. You will manage a small scale high performing team. Deliverables will depend on your storytelling skills and ability to project manage creation of snackable quick visual bites of insights (charts, infographics, etc), as well as shorter reports.

What You'll Do

  • Content Strategy & Execution
  • Build and lead a high-performing content engine, our editorial newsroom, leveraging Samba’s cross-screen media intelligence.
  • Drive a focused content strategy aligned with launches, GTM priorities, and audience needs.
  • Produce high-impact, multi-format content (reports, visuals, articles, social, case studies, videos, enablement).
  • Translate complex data and AI/ML concepts into clear, snackable narratives.
  • Create repeatable storytelling frameworks around cross-screen insights, measurement, AI audiences, and ad effectiveness.
  • Own the content calendar end-to-end for timely, high-quality output.
  • Collaborate with data science, product, and engineering for accuracy and clarity.
  • Thought Leadership & Brand Storytelling
  • Position Samba as the leader in AI-driven advertising, cross-screen measurement, and the future of streaming.
  • Partner with PR/Comms on executive thought leadership, media narratives, and analyst/conference content.
  • Identify content opportunities from trends, competition, customer insights, and internal innovation.
  • Ensure narrative consistency across touchpoints and develop strong customer stories that demonstrate ROI.
  • Social & Distribution
  • Manage and optimize distribution across LinkedIn, X, and other channels.
  • Lead social strategy to amplify thought leadership and product news.
  • Monitor engagement and performance to refine content decisions
  • Collaborate with Digital Marketing to support GEO, SEO, SEM, and paid promotion.

    • Who You Are

  • 7–10+ years in content marketing; bonus if in ad tech, martech, data platforms, or SaaS.
  • Comfortable and excited about creating content topics around AI/ML, data science, predictive analytics, and AI-driven marketing.
  • Hands-on use of AI tools (e.g., GPT, Claude, autonomous agents, orchestration frameworks).
  • Can work independently driving projects end-to-end, while also managing a team of high - performers.
  • Exceptional writer/storyteller able to simplify technical concepts for varied audiences.
  • Full-stack creator for visual form content, long-form reports, and social posts
  • Curious, collaborative, and effective across Product, Sales, Marketing, and Exec teams.
  • Learns quickly and thrives in fast-changing environments.
  • Bias for action—ships, learns, iterates.
  • Writes in a clear, human, on-brand voice.
  • Comfortable speaking at conferences.
  • BA in Marketing, Communications, Journalism; advanced degree a plus.
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    Skills

    Ad TechAI/MLAutonomous AgentsClaudeData PlatformsGEOGPTLinkedInMarTechOrchestration FrameworksSaaSSEMSEOX

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