Sr. Editorial Manager – Markets and Investing

Sr. Editorial Manager – Markets and Investing

This role is responsible for transforming Vanguard's expertise, research, and intellectual capital into compelling thought leadership and advisor-facing content that advances business priorities and delivers value to financial advisors. Serving as a key partner to editorial strategy leaders, researchers, portfolio managers, subject-matter experts, and marketing teams, this role helps identify the most important stories, shape editorial priorities, develop distinctive points of view, and create content that informs, engages, and influences advisor audiences. The role combines editorial strategy, reporting, writing, editing, and content development. Successful candidates bring deep familiarity with the advisory industry and the ability to translate complex topics into clear, differentiated, and actionable insights. This role may support Editorial Strategy & Governance, Practice Management, or Markets & Investing initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Editorial strategy and content development

• Partner with editorial strategy leaders to develop and execute content agendas aligned with business priorities.

• Identify emerging trends, timely issues, and high-impact storytelling opportunities relevant to financial advisors.

• Shape narratives, content frameworks, and thought leadership platforms across priority topics.

• Translate research, data, and subject-matter expertise into audience-centered editorial concepts.

• Recommend content formats, distribution approaches, and editorial treatments that maximize audience value.

• Reporting and subject matter expertise

• Conduct interviews with internal and external subject-matter experts, researchers, portfolio managers, executives, and financial advisors.

• Synthesize insights from interviews, proprietary research, industry reports, surveys, academic studies, and market developments.

• Develop a deep understanding of advisor needs, industry challenges, investment trends, and practice management opportunities.

• Ensure content reflects current industry developments and evolving advisor expectations.

• Writing and editing

• Write and edit articles, research-based thought leadership, executive bylines, presentations, scripts, reports, web content, and other advisor-facing materials.

• Elevate content through rigorous editing, ensuring clarity, sophistication, consistency, and editorial excellence.

• Translate complex concepts into persuasive, engaging narratives without sacrificing accuracy or nuance.

• Ensure Vanguard's voice, perspective, and standards are consistently reflected across content.

• Research and thought leadership

• Partner with research teams to identify opportunities for proprietary studies, surveys, benchmarks, and advisor-focused insights.

• Help shape research questions, storytelling approaches, and editorial implications of research findings.

• Develop narratives that turn research findings into compelling thought leadership.

• Identify opportunities to repurpose research across multiple channels and audiences.

• Stakeholder partnership

• Build strong relationships with researchers, product teams, investment experts, practice management consultants, marketing partners, communications teams, and senior leaders.

• Facilitate productive content development and review processes across diverse stakeholders.

• Balance multiple priorities while maintaining high editorial standards and meeting deadlines.

• Serve as a trusted advisor on content quality, storytelling, and audience relevance.

• What You Will Need

• 8+ years of experience in editorial strategy, financial journalism, content development, thought leadership, financial communications, or related fields.

• Experience working in wealth management, asset management, or investment research.

• Exceptional writing, editing, interviewing, and storytelling skills.

• Proven ability to translate complex subject matter into compelling content for professional audiences.

• Experience working closely with senior stakeholders and subject-matter experts.

• Strong editorial judgment and ability to identify meaningful stories, trends, and opportunities.

• Experience managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• Preferred

• Knowledge of wealth management and financial planning trends and the business of delivering financial advice, including a wide range of practice management topics

• Knowledge of markets, investment strategy and products, portfolio construction, and capital markets.

• Experience developing proprietary research, surveys, benchmarking studies, or research-driven thought leadership.

• Experience writing for executive audiences or external media-quality publications.

• Familiarity with advisor-facing content platforms, thought leadership programs, and integrated content ecosystems.

• Experience developing editorial governance, content planning, editorial calendar management, content rationalization, and enterprise alignment.

• Special Factors

• Sponsorship

• Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

• About Vanguard

• At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

• To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

• How We Work

• Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

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• Our commitment to you

• Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life.

Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:

• Financial wellness

• We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.

• Physical wellness

• We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness.

• Personal wellness

• We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life.

• Learn more about our complete benefits and rewards package

• Our commitment to equal employment opportunity

• Vanguard is an equal opportunity employer. Vanguard is committed to providing all crew members a working environment that is free from discrimination, prejudice and bias. Through this Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy, Vanguard reaffirms its commitment to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and crew members without regard to race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status. In addition, Vanguard prohibits discrimination based on genetic information, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

• Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure