Staff Content Architect
Mountain View, CA, United States · Staff+ · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$115k-$186kDetected 21 days ago
Platform EngineeringMachine LearningStakeholder ManagementContent MarketingCRMCommunication
About the role
- Join us to transform the way the world works.
- At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business.
- The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the single accountable owner for the KMS DITA content model, driving design, governance, and ongoing evolution to ensure scalability, reuse, and long-term system integrity
- Define and enforce structural standards, metadata models, taxonomy alignment, and reuse strategies; partner closely with the Taxonomist to ensure consistent and scalable classification and controlled vocabularies
- Partner with Content Strategy leads and teams to align content architecture with user needs, editorial intent, and business goals-translating content strategy into scalable structural design
- Translate content and data model into operational implementations (templates, authoring patterns, validation rules, workflows), ensuring consistent adoption across authors, teams, and partners
- Design content structures optimized for AI, search, and automation; partner with Engineering, Search, and AI teams to improve discoverability, retrieval accuracy, and overall content performance
- Lead architectural alignment across transformation initiatives (AEM Guides, Help Center redesign, AI-driven support), including defining strategies for migration, normalization, and legacy content rationalization
- Partner with Product, Content Strategy, and Engineering to ensure content architecture decisions enable intuitive, efficient authoring experiences and reduce reliance on manual workarounds
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Architecture, Content Engineering or related field
- 8+ years of experience in content architecture, knowledge management, content systems, or structured authoring
- 8+ years in DITA (structured content methodology) and topic-based authoring
- 5+ years of experience working with enterprise content management systems such as AEM Guides
- 5+ years of experience designing metadata models, taxonomy, and content reuse strategies
Nice to have
- Strong understanding of the content lifecycle across authoring, publishing, localization, and consumption
- Experience designing integrations across content ecosystems, data platforms, and downstream systems
- Familiarity with search optimization, semantic tagging, and knowledge graph concepts
- Strong analytical and systems thinking mindset
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- Suggested Skills
- Structured content architecture and DITA content modeling
- Metadata strategy, taxonomy alignment, and content reuse governance
Compensation
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Equal opportunity
- We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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- Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
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