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.
- 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.
Skills Required
- 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
- 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
- Knowledge of wealth management, financial planning trends, financial advice delivery, and 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 calendars, content rationalization, and enterprise alignment
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.








