Director, Content Marketing

<div class="content-intro"><p>Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.</p> <p>We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.</p></div><p><strong>Posting Open Date: </strong>July 2, 2026</p> <p><strong>Anticipated Posting Close Date*: </strong>July 31, 2026</p> <p><em>*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.</em></p> <p><strong>Director, Content Marketing</strong></p> <p>As the Director of Content Marketing, you will lead the team responsible for shaping and scaling Fastly’s content. Sitting within the Product Marketing organization, you will direct a high-performing team responsible for our entire global content portfolio, spanning corporate web properties, editorial channels, digital, campaigns, and high-impact thought leadership initiatives. Orchestrating this comprehensive engine, you will translate complex technologies into compelling stories that establish market authority, elevate our website experience, and fuel full-funnel demand generation to engage developers and enterprise executives throughout their entire buyer journey.</p> <p><strong>Goals:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Elevate Thought Leadership &amp; Authority: Create deeply insightful, industry-defining content that differentiates Fastly in the market and establishes our technical bench as trusted visionaries.</li> <li>Optimize the Digital Web Experience: Ensure our corporate web properties are continuously enriched with high-quality, engaging content that clearly articulates our product value and drives visitor engagement.</li> <li>Fuel Full-Funnel Conversion: Produce a balanced pipeline of asset and campaign content that supports both top-of-funnel brand awareness and tactical demand generation performance.</li> <li>Translate Technical Complexity: Maintain deep technical accuracy while crafting universal, high-impact insights that resonate with both technical practitioners and business decision-makers.</li> <li>Scale Responsibly with AI: Build a modern, high-velocity content operations model that leverages generative AI safely to support output and expand reach without sacrificing quality or brand voice.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You'll Do:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead and Mentor the Team: Directly manage a talented team of content creators and strategists, providing editorial vision and setting clear performance metrics across thought leadership initiatives, corporate web properties, editorial channels, and multi-channel marketing campaigns.</li> <li>Own the Global Editorial Strategy: Architect and oversee Fastly’s holistic content strategy, collaborating deeply with Product Marketing, Digital, Field Marketing, and Brand to align content with launch cycles and corporate priorities.</li> <li>Direct Web and Campaign Content: Oversee the messaging architecture and copy execution for key corporate website pages, targeted landing pages, and integrated marketing campaigns to maximize digital engagement.</li> <li>Drive High-Impact Thought Leadership: Transform Fastly’s unique data insights, security research, and technical innovations into proprietary reports, whitepapers, and executive perspectives that capture industry attention.</li> <li>Optimize Modern Content Operations: Responsibly integrate generative AI tools into the content workflow to accelerate research, optimize SEO/AEO/GEO variations, and scale content while establishing clear guardrails for accuracy, original thought, and brand voice.</li> <li>Manage External Pipelines: Work alongside your team to scale content velocity by cultivating a highly vetted stable of external agencies, technical freelancers, and subject-matter experts.</li> <li>Support Flagship Events: Partner with the events and executive teams to ensure the content engine for first-party flagship events deliverables, presentations, and keynotes are high-impact and on-narrative.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What We're Looking For:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience &amp; Industry Scale: 10+ years of experience driving comprehensive content marketin