The Role
Company Profile
Founded in 1977, GMO is a global investment manager committed to delivering superior long-term investment performance and advice to our clients. We offer investment strategies and solutions where we believe we are positioned to add the greatest value for our investors. These include multi-asset class, public equity, public credit, and liquid alternative offerings.
We manage approximately $68bn for a client base that includes many of the world’s most sophisticated institutions, financial intermediaries, and private clients. Industry-wide, we are well known for our focus on valuation-based investing, willingness to take bold positions when conditions warrant, and candid and academically rigorous thought leadership. Jeremy Grantham, GMO’s Co-Founder and Long-Term Investment Strategist, is renowned as an expert in identifying speculative investment bubbles and also as a leading climate investor and advocate.
GMO is privately owned and employs over 430 people worldwide. We are headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in Europe, Asia and Australia. Our company-wide culture emphasizes commitment to clients, intellectual curiosity, and open debate. We celebrate and respect our differences, while embracing and valuing what each of us brings to work, as we know that diverse teams in an inclusive, caring environment achieve higher engagement and better client results.
Please follow the prompts included in this job posting to apply. The application window for this role is anticipated to remain open until the job is filled, or as otherwise determined by GMO.
Position Overview
The Content Writer creates marketing content that communicates about GMO’s investment capabilities effectively. This person is a creative storyteller who can articulate investment concepts and marketing messaging using accessible, captivating language tailored to GMO’s audiences across marketing mediums, with a focus on digital.
This person is a multi-dimensional content professional who has a firm grasp of marketing and investment writing techniques and can successfully complete writing projects, developing from drafting stage through publication. The Content Writer will partner with the larger Marketing and Investment Product Strategy team, Global Client Relations, Investment Teams, and Legal/Compliance on content campaigns that continually strengthen GMO’s preeminent reputation for delivering superior investment performance and advice to our clients.
Responsibilities Include
Partner with Investment Teams, Marketing, and other stakeholders to distill complex financial concepts into clear, compelling, channel-specific messaging
Articulate GMO’s differentiators in marketing collateral such as SEO-optimized website copy, long- and short-form brand materials, investment strategy descriptions in collateral, RFP language, and more
Write initial drafts of investment thought leadership, with input from potential sources such as interviews, outlines, or other presentations
Craft marketing emails to target audiences, especially the wealth channel, leveraging email marketing best practices to engage recipients and drive lead generation efforts with high open and click-through rates
Collaborate with Digital Marketing team to create engaging social media content that grows followers and increases engagement
Draft client communication materials to describe organizational and/or investment strategy developments, including letters and talking points for use by Global Client Relations, interacting with leaders around the firm to coordinate reviews and refine storylines
Work together with Marketing colleagues to translate written material into other mediums, such as video scripts and audio formats
Review and edit content to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency
Ensure all writing maintains GMO’s style and tone of voice
Required Skills
- 5-7 years of relevant work experience
- Bachelor’s degree in English, Marketing, Journalism, or Communications required
- MBA, CFA, CAIA or other advanced degree or relevant certification preferred
- Asset management experience required, including demonstrated strong understanding of investment strategies
- Journalism experience additive
- Excellent writing, editorial, proofreading, and communication skills
- Superior attention to detail
- Proven ability to write for diverse formats
- Strong understanding of marketing strategies, including digital marketing techniques
- Familiarity with investment regulatory requirements
- Experience communicating with the wealth channel
Character
- Proactive, entrepreneurial attitude
- High degree of intellectual curiosity
- High energy, positive, professional, mature
- Strong collaboration and organizational skills and ability to handle multiple projects at a time while meeting deadlines
- Comfortable working both independently and as part of a team
- Self-directed and motivated
- Creative thinker with solution-oriented approach
GMO is committed to the recruitment, employment, and promotion of all candidates equally, regardless of an individual's gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability (except where such disability is a bona fide occupational disqualification) or any other classification protected under federal, state or local law.
GMO will not offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity.
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The Company
What We Do
For more than 40 years, GMO has partnered with a broad range of sophisticated institutions, financial intermediaries, and families to provide the investment expertise they need to meet their goals and fulfill their missions. Investing on behalf of our clients is GMO’s sole focus. Across asset classes and around the world, our investment teams identify and exploit long-term opportunities and develop solutions that both anticipate and respond to client needs. GMO is comprised of a collection of investment teams with focused specialties. All are grounded in a long-term, valuation-based investment philosophy – an approach we believe provides the best risk-adjusted returns. GMO partners with an impressive roster of sophisticated clients worldwide, delivering innovative investment solutions and tailored client service. Our clients benefit from our diverse expertise, intellectual curiosity, and open culture of debate, as well as from our ability and willingness to take advantage of contrarian market opportunities. For important disclosure information please visit: https://www.gmo.com/americas/terms-and-conditions/
