As a content creatorfor Vanguard’s retail investor business, you’ll play a key role in bringing that mission to life – creating clear, engaging content that helps people understand investing, pensions and retirement, and broader personal finance topics. Your work will help people feel more confident in their decisions and achieve their financial goals.
Content Creator
Location - Manchester
Bringing Vanguard’s mission to life
At Vanguard, we are on a mission to take a stand for investors and give them the best chance of investment success.
As a content creatorfor Vanguard’s retail investor business, you’ll play a key role in bringing that mission to life – creating clear, engaging content that helps people understand investing, pensions and retirement, and broader personal finance topics. Your work will help people feel more confident in their decisions and achieve their financial goals.
The role:
You’ll create and deliver content for Vanguard’s retail investor audience, translating complex topics – from investing and market movements to pensions, retirement, investment accounts and everyday personal finance – into clear, accessible ways for retail investors.
This role is key to ensuring a consistent flow of high-quality content across channels, supporting ongoing campaigns and business priorities.
You’ll:
- Plan and produce high-quality content across multiple formats, including written articles, email, social media and video – often working across several projects and deadlines at once
- Turn Vanguard’s global research and thought leadership into engaging, relevant content for retail investors
- Support the delivery of marketing campaigns and wider business priorities, ensuring a consistent message across channels
- Work at pace to respond to market developments and business needs, while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
- Help create content which financial advisers can use with their clients
- Work with our Digital Wealth team to produce content that can work for both Vanguard and our partners
You’ll work closely with economists, product teams and other subject matter experts to build a strong understanding of Vanguard’s investment philosophy, products and services – and bring these to life in a way that resonates with everyday investors.
A key part of the role is balancing engaging storytelling with regulatory requirements – producing content that meets legal and compliance standards, including Consumer Duty expectations.
You’ll respond to market developments and business needs with agility, maintaining high content production standards in a fast-moving environment.
What it takes
- Strong experience in content creation, ideally in personal finance journalism, working for a retail investor platform, or investment writing for a retail audience
- Proven ability to explain complex topics (e.g. investing, pensions, markets or personal finance) in ways that retail investors can easily access and understand.
- Experience working across content formats (articles, social, email, video) and adapting content for different channels
- Confidence working with subject matter experts and stakeholders, including incorporating feedback from multiple sources
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and iterating content based on stakeholder feedback
- Strong editorial judgement, with attention to detail and accuracy
- Understanding of regulatory requirements in financial services
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
- Excellent written and communication skills
Why Vanguard?
Vanguard is a different kind of investment company. It was founded in the US in 1975 on a simple but revolutionary idea: that an investment company should manage its funds solely in the interests of its clients.
This is a philosophy that has helped millions of people around the world to achieve their goals with low-cost, uncomplicated investments.
It's what we stand for: value to investors.
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.
Skills Required
- Strong experience in content creation
- Experience in personal finance journalism, retail investor platforms, or investment writing
- Proven ability to explain complex investing, pensions or personal finance topics clearly
- Experience producing content across formats (articles, social, email, video)
- Confidence working with subject matter experts and stakeholders
- Ability to work at pace and iterate content based on feedback
- Strong editorial judgement and attention to detail
- Understanding of regulatory requirements in financial services (including Consumer Duty expectations)
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Ability to create content advisers can use with their clients
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
