Content Strategist / Content Marketing Manager
The role that decides what gets written and why: topic selection, cluster architecture, quality standards, and the editorial pipeline the rest of the team works from.
Analogy Mental model
A magazine editor-in-chief. They don't write every feature — they decide what the cover story is, who owns which section, and what counts as good enough to publish.
In practice What you actually do
Define the content pillars and the cluster structure beneath them, write and review briefs, manage the writing team and the editing flow, measure content ROI and retire topics that never pay back, and coordinate with design, video, and SEO so one research effort ships in several formats.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Being a strategist does not mean being the strongest writer on the team; it means being the best judge of which ten topics out of a hundred will actually earn traffic and pipeline. Teams that promote their fastest writer into this seat usually lose a good writer and gain a poor strategist.
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