Head - Content - Digital Media

Head of Content:

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 13+ Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days preferred

About the Role:

We are looking for an accomplished Head of Content to lead the content and editorial function for a rapidly growing digital media organization.

This is a senior leadership role for a strategic and hands-on content professional who understands the evolving digital media landscape, audience behavior, storytelling, and video-first content. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building a high-performing editorial organization and driving a strong, scalable, multilingual content strategy across platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own and define the overall content and editorial strategy, aligned with business and audience goals.

- Lead a large, high-performing editorial/content team across multiple formats and platforms.

- Drive the transition towards a video-first content ecosystem, with a strong focus on short-form and long-form video.

- Develop and execute a multilingual content strategy, covering 7+ regional languages along with English.

- Establish strong editorial standards, processes, governance, quality controls, and content calendars.

- Identify emerging content formats, audience trends, platforms, and opportunities for growth.

- Work closely with product, technology, social media, marketing, and business teams to maximize content reach and engagement.

- Use data and audience insights to continuously improve content performance.

- Build a culture of innovation, speed, accountability, and editorial excellence.

- Mentor and develop senior editorial leaders and build a strong succession pipeline.

- Ensure content is credible, relevant, engaging, platform-appropriate, and aligned with brand standards.

- Drive measurable improvements in audience growth, engagement, video consumption, and content efficiency.

What We're Looking For:

- 13+ years of relevant experience in digital media, journalism, publishing, content, or a related field.

- Proven experience leading large-scale editorial/content teams in a senior leadership capacity.

- Strong understanding of digital-first and video-first content ecosystems.

- Experience managing multilingual content operations, preferably across Indian regional languages.

- Strong editorial judgment combined with commercial and audience understanding.

- Demonstrated ability to build and execute content strategies at scale.

- Experience working across websites, mobile platforms, social media, video platforms, and emerging digital channels.

- Strong understanding of content analytics, audience metrics, SEO, social distribution, and digital engagement.

- Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and team-building skills.

- Ability to balance editorial quality with speed, scale, innovation, and business outcomes.

Success in the First 12 Months:

The successful candidate will be expected to:

- Establish a scalable, high-performance content organization.

- Significantly strengthen the organization's video-first content strategy.

- Achieve a substantial increase in video-led content output, with a target of 60%+ video content.

- Build strong multilingual editorial capabilities.

- Improve audience engagement, content reach, and platform performance.

- Create robust editorial processes and measurable performance frameworks.

Why This Opportunity?:

This is an opportunity to take ownership of the content direction of a high-growth digital media platform and play a pivotal role in shaping its next phase of editorial and audience growth.

If you are a senior content leader who combines editorial excellence, digital expertise, video storytelling, multilingual content leadership, and a strong understanding of audiences, we would love to hear from you.