Location: New York,NY, USA
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.
As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values: Leading with exceptional ideas, giving back, doing the right thing, and putting clients first. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career-a place for people to learn, to achieve, to grow.
The VP of Research and MSIM Content within Firmwide Marketing will be a core member of a team responsible for shaping ideas, offering creative guidance and integrated execution, and managing the flow of Firm thought leadership from the Firm's Institutional Securities Group, including Equity Research, all within the larger context and narrative of the Morgan Stanley brand and its core values. This individual will work in partnership with teams in Corporate Communications/Earned Media, Paid Advertising, Digital Marketing and others to amplify content across the Firm's content channels. Building and maintaining strategic relationships with key partners in Equity Research and Investment Management will be critical to generating a steady flow of content, which can range from feature and short-form articles to videos and podcasts, among other storytelling formats.
The ideal candidate will have significant experience in managing a newsroom-style digital publication, whether in a media organization or financial services firm. They should have an instinct for narratives that balance the key priorities of business stakeholders with the need to attract a broad audience interested in insights on markets, economies and investment trends. They should be subject matter experts in the ways that audiences interacts with digital content on multiple devices and platforms in an always-on and interconnected world.
* Bachelor's degree required with 10+ years managing and/or editing investment-related content for mass media or a large corporation, with multiple stakeholders and a broad audience. Familiarity with the financial services industry, global markets and sector dynamics required.
* Strong editorial instincts that can quickly absorb complex ideas and broad context and reframe for engaged and motivated but nonexpert audiences.
* Expert rewrite editor who can seamlessly apply style and structure, while maintaining a consistently approachable yet sophisticated narrative voice.
* Expert at managing a network of multimedia content originators for web, social, mobile, video, audio and other digital channels.
* Expert in the dynamics of online content creation, management and curation to drive brand reputation, new business and to support existing clients.
* Able to thrive in fast-paced environment and adapt/reprioritize accordingly with ease
* Experience using a CMS to manage real-time content.
* Experience with SEO and using analytics to drive content creation and management.
* Experience using generative AI in content creation and amplification preferred.
* Familiarity with the financial-services industry, global markets and sector dynamics preferred.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $120,000 and $200,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.
It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).