Content Engineer

Our Customer is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, they were created to expand access to higher education. Today, the membership association is made up of over 6,000 of the world’s leading educational institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. Each year, our Customer helps more than seven million students prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success—including the SAT, the Advanced Placement Program, and BigFuture. The organization also serves the education community through research and advocacy on behalf of students, educators, and schools.

We are seeking a Content Engineer on a contract basis to help support our Customer’s business needs. This role is 100% remote.

As a Content Engineer you’ll be at the forefront of content architecture, strategy and execution for digital solutions across the product portfolio. You'll be a key member of cross-functional teams, bridging the gaps between design, content and engineering. You’ll work with product owners, UX/UI designers, engineers and content strategists. Your mission? To architect models making content more flexible, reusable and maintainable, and improving its presentation and structure. You’ll improve the authoring experience in Drupal CMS by defining UI and structural improvements.

What You'll Do:

Content and Metadata Modeling (50%)

• Develop and refine structured content and metadata models in the form of authoring templates, implementation specs, to enable delivery or evolution of new features and enhance content flexibility and reusability.
• Map the components of structured content and metadata throughout the delivery pipeline, ensuring alignment and data integrity from content creation to feature development to end user interaction.

Content Management and Workflow (25%)

• Contribute to the development of workflows and processes for creating and maintaining content
• Be the voice of the content creator at the company, ensuring that content workflows, lifecycles, and supporting tools are sustainable
• Establish governance practices to maintain content quality and consistency.

Content Strategy and Design (25%)

• Synthesize user needs and business requirements to contribute to a clear, scalable strategy for deploying information in multiple formats across digital products
• Create strategies for reusing content across different channels and contexts.
• Design, test, and implement effective and innovative content-driven digital experiences in the products, in collaboration with UX/UI design and research
• Determine when and how to leverage the use of structured content, and implement content management solutions to support delivery of key information to users

• 2-3 years’ experience designing content or data models and workflows for digital products
• Experience with Drupal or a similar CMS, beyond just creating and editing content. Modifying/creating content types, understanding fields and relationships, familiarity with headless/decoupled usage
• Familiarity with structured data (JSON and XML) is a plus
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including using data to inform recommendations
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, and an ability break down complex concepts for a non-technical audience using data, words, and visualizations
• Strong negotiation skills and a willingness to collaborate and find middle ground
• A self-starter mentality—you enjoy getting into the weeds, untangling complex ecosystems and learning new technologies
• Proven ability to build relationships and influence others to action
• Passion for supporting educational and career opportunities for millions of students

Please note: In order to create a safe, productive work environment, our client is requiring all contractors who plan to be onsite to be fully vaccinated according to the CDC guidelines. Prior to coming into our offices, contractors will be required to attest that they are fully vaccinated.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.