Senior Lead, Creative Content Production

Description

The Senior Lead, Creative Content Production is responsible for ensuring clear, consistent, and compelling storytelling across all creative outputs at Leidos. This role translates marketing strategy and business priorities into actionable narratives, scripts, and messaging frameworks that guide video, graphic, interactive, and experiential work.

This position serves as the central narrative authority within the Creative Studio, ensuring alignment to brand, tone, and messaging while enabling teams to execute efficiently and consistently.

Key Responsibilities

• Own narrative and messaging alignment across:
  • Video productions and scripts
  • Interactive and experiential experiences
  • Campaigns and advertising
  • Trade show and event storytelling
• Translate marketing strategy, growth priorities, and campaign goals into:
  • Narrative frameworks
  • Messaging hierarchies
  • Story arcs and content outlines
• Write or oversee development of:
  • Video scripts and voiceover copy
  • Core asset messaging
  • Experience-level content and storytelling structures
• Serve as the primary content partner to:
  • Marketing and Growth teams
  • Experience Design and Interactive teams
  • Video and Graphic Design teams
• Review creative deliverables to ensure:
  • Brand voice and tone consistency
  • Message clarity and accuracy
  • Strategic alignment with business objectives
• Provide creative guidance and editorial feedback to designers, producers, and writers
• Mentor copywriters and contribute to content standards and best practices
• Support executive-level communications and high-visibility initiatives

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or related field. Typically requires 12+ years relevant experience but for this role candidates must possess 10+ years of experience in content development, creative production, or storytelling roles. Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree requirements.
• Strong background in:
  • Narrative development
  • Scriptwriting
  • Campaign messaging
  • Content strategy for complex organizations
• Proven experience translating marketing direction into creative execution
• Experience collaborating with:
  • Designers
  • Video producers
  • UX / experience designers
• Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, enterprise environment
• Strong stakeholder communication and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in B2B, technology, or related industries
• Experience supporting executive communications
• Familiarity with brand governance and compliance-driven environments
• Understanding of experiential or interactive storytelling

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.