Director of Content & Brand (Contractor)

At Amplitude, we’re looking for a Director of Content & Brand to join our Brand Marketing team as maternity leave coverage (approximately March-September). This is a senior, trusted role focused on keeping our content, brand, and cross-functional marketing work moving forward.

We’re looking for someone who is comfortable working at both the strategic and executional level. This role will set clear priorities, make tradeoffs, and move quickly when decisions are needed. Marketing demand is high, and timelines move fast. The ideal candidate will bring clarity, alignment, while ensuring our content continues to drive pipeline, long-term brand equity, and successful product launches.

You’ll partner closely with Creative, Social, Comms, Events, Growth, and Product Marketing leadership and act as the primary decision-maker for content and brand priorities, especially as we bring new AI products and capabilities to market.

This is a part-time contract role, averaging about 30 hours per week over a 6-month period. The anticipated hourly rate ranges from $100 to $130, depending on experience.

Own content strategy and prioritization

• Set and own the content roadmap and quarterly prioritization
• Maintain a high standard of quality across all content and creative
• Empower Marketing with guidelines and purpose-built writing agents.
• Make decisions about what the team commits to each quarter based on overall marketing strategy
• Own relationship with key cross-functional teams (Product Marketing, Growth, and Campaigns)
• Ensure content and brand plans support pipeline and campaign goals

Provide leadership and oversight

• Run weekly 1:1s and team check-ins
• Review in-progress work and provide final signoff before content moves to design or production
• Maintain a high bar for quality, clarity, and consistency across all deliverables
• Ensure alignment with brand voice, messaging, and visual standards
• Prioritize quickly, and review work under tight timelines
• Pull and share the monthly Brand Health Score
• Review budget monthly, track spend, flag risks early, and utilize budget well.

You’ll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• 10+ years of experience in content, comms, or brand leadership roles
• Deep cross-functional partnership experience 
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, and contractors
• Clear, confident communication and a consistently high bar for quality

You’ll be an amazing addition (with these preferred qualifications) to the team if you:

• Have stepped into interim or maternity leave coverage roles before
• Are comfortable building trust quickly and leading teams during times of transition 
• Thrive in fast-moving, high-visibility environments

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view. 

The Product: Amplitude is an AI analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

• We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
• Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.
• We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
• We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives. 
• We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off. 
• We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL. 
• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
• Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.