Director - Content Engineering - CDH - Remote at Mayo Clinic

Why Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other care provider according to U.S. News & World Report. As we work together to put the needs of the patient first, we are also dedicated to our employees, investing in competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans – to take care of you and your family, now and in the future. And with continuing education and advancement opportunities at every turn, you can build a long, successful career with Mayo Clinic.

Benefits Highlights

• Medical: Multiple plan options.
• Dental: Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
• Vision: Affordable plan with national network.
• Pre-Tax Savings: HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
• Retirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.

Responsibilities

The Director of Content Engineering leads the strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-scale content platforms that power digital experiences across web, mobile, clinical, marketing, and knowledge channels. This role sits at the intersection of content, engineering, AI, and experience, ensuring content is modular, reusable, AI-ready, and delivered with high reliability and performance.

This leader is accountable for transforming content from static assets into structured, intelligent, API-driven systems that scale across products, channels, and use cases.

Key Responsibilities Content Platform Strategy & Architecture

• Define and own the long-term vision for content platforms (CMS, headless CMS, DAM, knowledge systems).
• Drive adoption of headless, composable, API-first content architectures.
• Ensure content models support omnichannel delivery, personalization, localization, and accessibility.
• Establish standards for structured content, metadata, taxonomy, and semantic tagging.

Engineering Leadership

• Lead and scale a team of content platform engineers, technical architects, and platform leads.
• Set engineering standards for reliability, performance, security, and scalability.
• Partner with Platform, Identity, Search, Personalization, and AI teams to enable end-to-end experiences.
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines, automation, and platform observability for content systems.

AI & Intelligent Content Enablement

• Enable AI-ready content through structured schemas, metadata enrichment, and governance.
• Partner with AI/ML teams to support GenAI use cases such as:
• Intelligent search and recommendations
• Content summarization and generation
• Knowledge retrieval and conversational experiences
• Ensure responsible AI usage with guardrails, provenance, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

Governance, Compliance & Accessibility

• Ensure content platforms meet regulatory, security, and privacy requirements.
• Drive accessibility (WCAG), localization, and content lifecycle governance.
• Define roles, workflows, and approval models across decentralized teams.

This vacancy is not eligible for sponsorship/ we will not sponsor or transfer visas for this position. Also, Mayo Clinic DOES NOT participate in the F-1 STEM OPT extension program.Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Computer Science, Design, Business, Cybersecurity, Health Informatics). Minimum of 10 years of progressive leadership experience in at least one of the following areas: digital health, product development, UX design, enterprise security, or systems operations. Proven experience leading large cross-functional teams and managing enterprise-level initiatives.

Advanced degree (e.g., MS, MBA, MDes, MPH) in a relevant discipline preferred.

The preferred candidate will possess:

• Deep experience with headless CMS platforms (e.g., Contentful, Adobe AEM, Sitecore, Sanity, etc.).

• Strong understanding of content modeling, taxonomy, metadata, and semantic design.

• Expertise in API-driven architectures, microservices, and cloud-native platforms.

• Experience integrating content systems with: o Search & personalization platformso Identity & consent systemso Analytics and experimentation toolso AI/LLM pipelines

• Familiarity with DAM, knowledge management, and content workflow automation.

• Experience leading ~20–30 engineers and platform specialists.

• Operating with a platform-as-a-product mindset, including roadmaps, OKRs, and internal SLAs.

• Experience championing reuse, composability, and enterprise leverage over bespoke solutions.

• Experience driving cross-org alignment between content, product, and engineering teams.Exemption Status

Exempt

Compensation Detail

$185,244.80 - $277,867.20/ year. Education, experience and tenure may be considered along with internal equity when job offers are extended.

Benefits Eligible

Yes

Schedule

Full Time

Hours/Pay Period

80

Schedule Details

M-F daytime hours 100% remote role, the employee must live within the US.

Weekend Schedule

As business needs dictate

International Assignment

No

Site Description

Just as our reputation has spread beyond our Minnesota roots, so have our locations. Today, our employees are located at our three major campuses in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, Jacksonville, Florida, Rochester, Minnesota, and at Mayo Clinic Health System campuses throughout Midwestern communities, and at our international locations. Each Mayo Clinic location is a special place where our employees thrive in both their work and personal lives. Learn more about what each unique Mayo Clinic campus has to offer, and where your best fit is.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Learn more about the 'EOE is the Law'. Mayo Clinic participates in E-Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Recruiter

Laura Percival