Sr. Manager, Content and Thought Leadership

LifeStance Health; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

AD&D

Short and long-term disability

Life insurance

401k with employer match

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Holiday pay

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

LifeStance Health is seeking a Senior Content Strategy Lead to guide editorial governance, brand storytelling, and enterprise content across channels in the United States, including Oregon.

The role partners with clinical, legal, compliance, PR, and marketing teams to translate clinical expertise into compelling external storytelling and trusted thought leadership. This position offers a strong stake in shaping LifeStance’s narrative and strategic content impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in content strategy, editorial strategy, brand storytelling, or related fields.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Experience building governance models and editorial standards.
• Bachelor's degree; advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of editorial voice, storytelling, and content strategy across channels.
• Own enterprise content strategy, pillars, audience priorities, and storytelling approach.
• Develop 12-month content strategy and 90-day execution calendar aligned to goals.
• Lead annual content planning with stakeholders and quarterly reviews.
• Oversee editorial style guide ensuring brand consistency and quality.
• Collaborate with marketing, clinical, legal, compliance, and communications teams.

Skills

Content strategy

Editorial strategy

Brand storytelling

Communications

Thought leadership

Integrated marketing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

At LifeStance Health, we strive to help individuals, families, and communities with their mental health needs. Everywhere. Every day. It's a lofty goal; we know. But we make it happen with the best team in mental healthcare.Thank you for taking the time to explore a career with us. As the fastest growing mental health practice group in the country, now is the perfect time to join our team!

LifeStance Health Values

• Belonging: We cultivate a space where everyone can show up as their authentic self.
• Empathy: We seek out diverse perspectives and listen to learn without judgment.
• Courage: We are all accountable for doing the right thing - even when it's hard - because we know it's worth it.
• One Team: We realize our full potential when we work together towards our shared purpose.

Benefits

As a full-time employee of LifeStance Health, the following benefits are offered: medical, dental, vision, AD&D, short and long-term disability, and life insurance. Additional benefits include a 401k retirement savings with employer match, paid parental leave, paid time off, holiday pay and an Employee Assistance Program.

ROLE OVERVIEW

LifeStance has an opportunity to become an authoritative content hub for multiple audiences, including patients, current and prospective clinicians, referring providers and industry partners. A formal content strategy that aligns our activities across all owned channels allows LifeStance to convert clinical authority into a durable competitive asset — building trust with key stakeholders before they need us and reinforcing our authority as the leader in outpatient mental health careConsistent with LifeStance's values, every member of the LifeStance team is expected to support each other and the mission, which may mean participating in projects and initiatives and performing functions and responsibilities not specifically outlined in this job description.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Content Strategy + Editorial Governance

• Serve as the architect of LifeStance's editorial ecosystem, leading the evolution and execution of editorial voice, storytelling, and content strategy across channels.
• Own enterprise content strategy, including content pillars, audience priorities, editorial standards, voice, tone, and storytelling approach.
• Develop and manage the 12-month content strategy and 90-day execution calendar to ensure content priorities align with business goals, brand strategy, and audience needs.
• Lead annual content planning with key stakeholders and establish a quarterly review cadence to evaluate priorities, performance, and upcoming needs.
• Own and evolve the editorial style guide to ensure consistency, clarity, quality, and brand alignment across all content.

Editorial Operations + Coordination

• Act as the strategic connector across marketing functions to ensure content priorities are aligned, coordinated, and not duplicative.
• Own the editorial calendar, incorporating input from marketing channels, PR, social, reputation, clinical, growth, business development, and internal stakeholders.
• Lead editorial planning meetings and manage the formal intake process for cross-functional content and storytelling requests.
• Advise teams on content repurposing opportunities across owned, earned, shared, paid, internal, and partner channels.
• Keep the 90-day execution calendar current and hold teams accountable to timelines, deliverables, and agreed-upon priorities.

Quality + Editorial Review

• Maintain LifeStance's editorial voice and content quality standards across channels and audiences.
• Review content for strategic fit, brand voice, audience clarity, message consistency, and alignment to business objectives.
• Ensure content is clear, credible, human, and appropriate for the sensitivity of mental health-related topics.
• Partner with clinical, legal, compliance, and communications stakeholders as needed to ensure content is accurate, responsible, and aligned to organizational standards.

Thought Leadership Strategy

• Develop enterprise thought leadership strategy aligned to brand, reputation, clinical expertise, business priorities, and category leadership goals.
• Identify priority themes, audiences, and moments where LifeStance has a credible voice and differentiated point of view.
• Partner with clinical leaders, executives, PR, content, social, and marketing teams to translate expertise into compelling external storytelling.
• Build repeatable thought leadership platforms that support earned media, owned content, sponsored content, speaking opportunities, executive visibility, and clinician storytelling.
• Create and maintain a pipeline of thought leadership topics, contributors, proof points, and activation opportunities across clinical, operational, executive, and market teams.
• Ensure thought leadership supports broader goals across brand trust, reputation, referral confidence, clinician pride, recruiting, and category relevance.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as a strategic content and storytelling partner across marketing, PR, clinical, operations, people/talent, business development, M&A, and executive stakeholders.
• Translate enterprise priorities into audience-relevant messaging, content plans, campaigns, and thought leadership opportunities.
• Facilitate alignment across functions on editorial priorities, timing, channel strategy, audience needs, and intended outcomes.
• Build processes that improve collaboration, reduce duplicative work, and ensure content is created with a clear purpose, audience, and performance goal.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure content supports patient acquisition, clinician engagement, referral partner credibility, reputation, recruiting, business development, and internal alignment.

Performance + Reporting

• Own content KPIs, performance reporting, and measurement recommendations across priority channels and content types.
• Use performance data, audience insights, search behavior, reputation inputs, and stakeholder feedback to inform editorial decisions.
• Identify opportunities to improve content effectiveness, audience engagement, discoverability, repurposing, and business contribution.
• Develop reporting that helps leaders understand how content and thought leadership are supporting awareness, trust, engagement, reputation, and growth priorities.

REQUIREMENTS

• 7+ years of progressive experience in content strategy, editorial strategy, brand storytelling, communications, thought leadership, integrated marketing, or related fields.
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States
• LifeStance is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
• Demonstrates awareness, inclusivity, sensitivity, humility, and experience in working with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, gender identities, and other various aspects of culture.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Healthcare, behavioral health, consumer health, or regulated industry experience strongly preferred.
• Strong editorial judgment with demonstrated experience building content strategies, editorial calendars, voice standards, and governance models.
• Exceptional written, verbal, visual, and video communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging across audiences and channels.
• Proven ability to translate complex clinical, business, and brand priorities into compelling, audience-relevant storytelling.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with clinical, legal, compliance, PR, marketing, growth, social, reputation, business development, and executive teams.
• Strong understanding of how content supports brand awareness, trust, reputation, discoverability, patient acquisition, clinician engagement, and enterprise growth.
• Experience using data, insights, search behavior, and performance reporting to inform content strategy.
• Strong project management skills and ability to lead complex workstreams in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, bend, talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to walk. The employee must be able to lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

COMPENSATION

$130,000 - $160,000/annually in addition to a competitive bonus planLifeStance provides the compensation range and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. LifeStance reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity

LifeStance is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are fully committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all our employees. Learn more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at LifeStance.

LifeStance Health complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our Human Resources Team at . Please note: This contact is intended solely for accommodation requests. Inquiries regarding applications, resumes and applicant status should not be sent to this email address as they will not be reviewed or responded to.