Scientific Content Manager
What this job does:
Owns scientific content strategy and quality across channels, managing production workflows, coordinating reviewers, ensuring scientific rigor, and optimizing content based on performance signals.
This job is similar to these lab/research tasks:
Managing multiple writing projects and review cycles, validating claims against primary sources, enforcing scientific standards, defining success metrics and iterating based on outcomes
Typical starting salary range
$79,500 to $175,000
Salary estimate represented as 25th to 75th percentile. Gathered from recent job postings, Glassdoor.com, and Salary.com
Daily task breakdown
- Content strategy and editorial planning: 25%
- Create and curate scientific content: 25%
- Cross-functional scientific alignment: 20%
- Content performance analytics and optimization: 15%
- Other: 15%
Skills you'll use in this job:
Editorial planning; scientific quality control; stakeholder management; style consistency; project management; content performance analytics; subject-matter literacy
Talk about these PhD skills in your resume and interview:
Manage multiple writing projects and review cycles; enforce standards; validate claims against primary sources; define success metrics and iterate based on outcomes and feedback.
Alternative job titles to search:
Scientific Content Strategist; Scientific Content Marketing Manager; Editorial Manager; Content Lead (Life Sciences); Scientific Communications Manager
*Note:
-Job titles are inconsistent between companies. Try various keywords.
-PhDs tend to undershoot seniority level. Target higher than you think.
