United Kingdom · Knowledge Management · Mid-Level (2-5 years)

Global Head of Knowledge Management

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandMid-Level (2-5 years)
  • Direct reportsNo direct reports
  • Reports toManager, Knowledge Management
  • UK framework levelUsually a coordinator, or early in a professional job

Also advertised as Knowledge Management Specialist (Global) · Senior Content Strategist (KM) · Global Knowledge Lead

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1What this role really is

This isn't just about tidying up an intranet; it's about making sure our global teams can find what they need, when they need it. You'll be the go-to person for specific, critical knowledge domains, making sure the right information gets captured, organised, and is actually useful. Think of it as owning a vital piece of our company's brain, ensuring it's always sharp and accessible for everyone, everywhere.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Confluence / SharePoint Online / Notion (Knowledge Base)Expert

Creating, editing, publishing, and managing content within our primary knowledge base. You'll be comfortable with templates, permissions, and basic site/space organisation.

MS Teams / Slack (Collaboration Suite)Advanced

Actively using channels for knowledge sharing, coordinating with SMEs, and participating in Communities of Practice. You'll know how to find information and contribute effectively.

Coveo / Sinequa / Lucidworks (Enterprise Search)Intermediate

Using the search tool effectively to find information, understanding basic search logic, and explaining search best practices to end-users. You'll also be able to interpret basic search analytics.

Power BI / Tableau (Analytics & Visualization)Intermediate

Reading and interpreting pre-built dashboards to track content performance, search success rates, and user engagement. You might even build simple custom reports for your domain.

WalkMe / Pendo (Digital Adoption Platform)Basic

Creating simple in-app guides or tooltips to help users navigate new content or features within the knowledge base. You'll understand how DAPs support knowledge adoption.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Content PublicationRequires manager review and approval before publishing.Independently publish content within established guidelines and your assigned domain. Escalate if content is high-risk or controversial.Approve content from junior team members; make final decisions on complex content within your workstream.
Taxonomy & TaggingApply existing tags and categories as instructed.Apply existing taxonomy consistently; propose minor adjustments or new tags within your domain to your manager.Design and implement taxonomy changes for specific projects or business units, with director input.
Process ImprovementIdentify inefficiencies and report them to your supervisor.Identify process issues within your domain and propose solutions to your manager. You might even pilot small improvements.Lead the design and implementation of new KM processes across multiple teams.
Stakeholder CommunicationCommunicate with immediate team and supervisor.Communicate directly with SMEs and internal clients for content gathering and review. Escalate complex stakeholder conflicts.Represent the KM team in cross-functional meetings; negotiate content requirements with senior stakeholders.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Content Quality Score
Average score for content you own, based on our internal rubric (accuracy, clarity, completeness, adherence to style guides).
Target · Maintain 4.0/5.0 average

Your 'Global Sales Playbook' content scores 4.2 in Q2, showing consistent quality across the region.

Search Success Rate (Domain Specific)
Percentage of global users finding relevant information on their first attempt within your assigned knowledge domain.
Target · Increase by 10% within 6 months (e.g., from 70% to 77%).

After optimising tags for 'Product X features', the search success rate for related queries jumps from 72% to 80%.

Content Freshness & Review Compliance
Percentage of content within your domain that's been reviewed and updated (or archived) within its scheduled review cycle.
Target · 95% compliance for all content owned.

You've ensured all 150 articles in the 'Customer Onboarding' section were reviewed on time, with 143 updated and 7 archived.

Content Adoption Rate (Domain Specific)
Number of unique global users accessing content within your specific knowledge domain.
Target · Increase by 15% quarter-on-quarter.

After promoting the new 'GDPR Compliance Guide', unique views jump from 500 to 620 in the first month.

SME Engagement & Collaboration
How effectively you work with subject matter experts to extract, validate, and publish their knowledge.
  • SMEs proactively contribute content
  • they respond to review requests promptly
  • you're seen as a trusted partner for knowledge capture. You'll get feedback from your manager and other team leads on how easy you are to work with.
Information Architecture Improvement
Your ability to identify and propose improvements to how content is structured and organised within your domain.
  • You'll spot inconsistent tagging, propose better category structures, or suggest new metadata fields that make content more findable. Your suggestions are often adopted by the wider KM team.
User Feedback & Satisfaction
The sentiment and usefulness of feedback from global users about the content you manage.
  • Positive comments on articles, direct emails thanking you for clear content, or users reporting they found what they needed quickly. Conversely, you'll be expected to address negative feedback constructively and learn from it.
Problem-Solving & Initiative
Your ability to spot knowledge gaps or process issues and proactively suggest solutions.
  • You don't just report problems
  • you come with ideas. For example, you might notice a recurring support ticket trend and propose a new article to address it, or identify a missing piece of training material and offer to draft it.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Making a Tangible Impact on Efficiency

You'll get a real kick out of seeing your content reduce support tickets or speed up a sales cycle. Knowing your work directly helps thousands of colleagues globally find answers faster is a big win for you.

You launch a new set of troubleshooting guides for a complex product, and the support team reports a 15% drop in related calls. That's your impact.

Solving Information Puzzles

You enjoy the challenge of taking messy, disparate information and turning it into something clear, logical, and easy to navigate. It's like being a detective for data, figuring out how everything connects.

You're given a pile of unorganised training materials and tasked with structuring them into a coherent, searchable learning path. This excites you.

Empowering Others Through Knowledge

You're driven by the idea that access to good information makes people better at their jobs. You love building resources that help your colleagues learn, grow, and succeed.

A new hire tells you they got up to speed quickly because of the excellent onboarding content you helped create and maintain.

What frustrates people
  • The 'I'll just ask Bob' culture still exists, even with a great knowledge base.
  • Getting busy subject matter experts (SMEs) to prioritise content contribution or review.
  • Dealing with content that's 'good enough' but not quite up to your quality standards, because you're relying on others.
  • The constant battle against content staleness and decay—it's never 'done'.
  • Trying to get different global teams to agree on a single term or process when they've always done it their own way.
What this role does not give you
  • Direct management of a large team (you're an individual contributor).
  • Complete autonomy over the entire KM strategy (you're executing within a broader framework).
  • A static, predictable workload (priorities and content needs shift constantly).
  • The ability to force people to use the knowledge base (you have to persuade and make it genuinely useful).

6Who you work with

This role directly impacts the efficiency and effectiveness of our global workforce by ensuring critical information is findable and accurate. Your work reduces redundant effort, speeds up onboarding for new hires, and ultimately helps our teams make better, faster decisions. Get it right, and you're saving thousands of hours across the business. Get it wrong, and you're creating frustration and slowing everyone down.

Inside the business
  • Product Managers (for product knowledge)
  • Sales Enablement Team (for sales playbooks and collateral)
  • Customer Support Leads (for troubleshooting guides and FAQs)
  • Regional Operations Managers (for localised content needs)
  • Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across various departments
  • IT Support (for knowledge base platform issues)
Outside the business
  • Knowledge base users (our customers, partners, etc., if public-facing)
  • Platform vendors (occasionally for feature requests or issues)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • At least 2-3 years of hands-on experience in a dedicated Knowledge Management, Technical Writing, or Content Strategy role, ideally within a global organisation.
  • Proven experience creating, editing, and managing content in a large-scale knowledge base or intranet system.
  • Demonstrable ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders and subject matter experts.
  • A track record of using data (e.g., search analytics) to inform content decisions.
  • A solid understanding of information architecture principles and content governance.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Knowledge Base Platform Features

Our KM platforms (like Confluence or SharePoint) are constantly adding new features, especially around search, collaboration, and content management. You'll need to stay ahead to get the most out of them.

Advanced search query construction and optimisatio · Leveraging platform APIs for custom integrations ( · Managing complex permissions and access controls. · Using advanced analytics features built into the p · Exploring new collaboration and content creation p

  • This week: Dive into the release notes for our primary knowledge base platform.
  • This month: Identify one new feature you could use to improve content in your domain and implement it.
  • Month 2: Attend a webinar or online course on advanced usage of our KM platform.
  • Month 3: Propose a platform enhancement based on your deeper understanding.

Quick win: Set up alerts for product updates from our knowledge base vendor. Spend 30 minutes weekly exploring less-used features in the platform.

Data Storytelling with KM Metrics

It's not enough to just report numbers; you need to tell a compelling story about what those numbers mean for the business. As you progress, you'll need to connect your content's performance to broader business outcomes.

Identifying key performance indicators (KPIs) that · Creating clear, visually engaging dashboards and r · Crafting narratives that explain 'why' metrics are · Presenting data confidently to non-technical audie · Linking KM metrics to business value (e.g., time s

  • This week: Review existing KM reports and think about how you'd improve their narrative.
  • This month: Practise explaining a complex metric to a colleague in simple terms.
  • Month 2: Take an online course on data visualisation or storytelling.
  • Month 3: Volunteer to present a small piece of KM data to a wider team.

Quick win: When you share any metric, always add a sentence explaining 'so what?' and 'what's next?'

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Join professional KM communities or associations (e.g., CILIP, KMWorld).
  • Attend industry webinars and virtual conferences on Knowledge Management and content strategy.
  • Read books and articles on information architecture, content governance, and user experience for knowledge platforms.
  • Actively seek feedback on your content and communication style from colleagues and stakeholders.
  • Volunteer to take on a small, challenging content project outside your immediate domain to stretch your skills.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Prompt Engineering for KM Content

Generative AI is already here, and it's changing how we create and summarise content. People who can 'talk' to these AIs effectively will be far more productive. Our competitors are already using tools like ChatGPT to draft articles in minutes, not hours.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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Built for Global Head of Knowledge Management

2 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. Manage knowledge in own area of responsibilityCity and Guilds of London Institute · covers 2 of 11 standardsLevel 4
  2. Manage knowledge in an organisationChartered Management Institute · covers 4 of 11 standardsLevel 5
These are the real units behind this job, in the order they rank for it. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Prompt Engineering for KM Content

Generative AI is already here, and it's changing how we create and summarise content. People who can 'talk' to these AIs effectively will be far more productive. Our competitors are already using tools like ChatGPT to draft articles in minutes, not hours.

  • Crafting clear, specific prompts for content gener
  • Using role-play and context setting in prompts.
  • Iterative prompting for refinement and accuracy.
  • Understanding token limits and context windows.
  • Validating AI-generated output for factual accurac

AI-Powered Content Curation & Tagging

Manually tagging thousands of articles is tedious and prone to error. AI can do this faster and more consistently, freeing you up for higher-value work. Our knowledge bases are growing, and we can't keep up manually.

  • Understanding how AI classifies and tags content.
  • Evaluating the accuracy of AI-suggested tags.
  • Training AI models with specific taxonomy examples
  • Using AI for content deduplication and identifying
  • Integrating AI tagging into content workflows.

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Taxonomy & Ontology Design (Application)
  • Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) Principles
  • Information Architecture (IA) Basics
  • Content Lifecycle Management (Execution)
  • Knowledge Auditing & Gap Analysis

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Knowledge Management Associate / Junior Specialist

    1-2 years

    Skills to master

    • Content creation and editing, basic taxonomy application, knowledge base tool proficiency, understanding of content lifecycles, stakeholder communication basics.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently produces high-quality content that meets standards.
    • Proactively identifies minor content gaps or errors.
    • Can independently manage routine content updates and reviews.
    • Receives positive feedback on collaboration with immediate team.
  2. 2

    Technical Writer / Content Creator (with KM focus)

    2-3 years

    Skills to master

    • Clear and concise writing, understanding complex technical topics, audience analysis, content structure, basic information architecture, working with SMEs.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully translated complex information into user-friendly content.
    • Demonstrated ability to manage a content pipeline and meet deadlines.
    • Proactively sought out SMEs for content input and validation.
    • Shows interest in how content is organised and found, beyond just writing it.
  3. 3

    Customer Support Specialist (with KM focus)

    3-4 years

    Skills to master

    • Deep product/service knowledge, understanding customer pain points, problem-solving, identifying knowledge gaps from support interactions, basic KCS principles.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently uses and contributes to the knowledge base to resolve issues.
    • Actively identifies and suggests improvements to existing support content.
    • Demonstrates a passion for empowering customers and colleagues with information.
    • Has a strong understanding of common customer queries and how to answer them.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey in Knowledge Management is about continuous learning and impact. We're here to support your growth, whether that's becoming a deep technical expert, a people leader, or a strategic executive. The most important thing is your drive to make information work better for everyone.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Global Head of Knowledge Management is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Manage knowledge in own area of responsibilityLevel 4

Applied to your work in Global Head of Knowledge Management

By completing this unit, learners will be able to understand, develop, share, monitor, and evaluate knowledge management practices within their area of responsibility.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Global Head of Knowledge Management

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Content Quality ScoreAverage score for content you own, based on our internal rubric (accuracy, clarity, completeness, adherence to style guides).Your 'Global Sales Playbook' content scores 4.2 in Q2, showing consistent quality across the region.Maintain 4.0/5.0 average
  • Search Success Rate (Domain Specific)Percentage of global users finding relevant information on their first attempt within your assigned knowledge domain.After optimising tags for 'Product X features', the search success rate for related queries jumps from 72% to 80%.Increase by 10% within 6 months (e.g., from 70% to 77%).
  • Content Freshness & Review CompliancePercentage of content within your domain that's been reviewed and updated (or archived) within its scheduled review cycle.You've ensured all 150 articles in the 'Customer Onboarding' section were reviewed on time, with 143 updated and 7 archived.95% compliance for all content owned.
  • Content Adoption Rate (Domain Specific)Number of unique global users accessing content within your specific knowledge domain.After promoting the new 'GDPR Compliance Guide', unique views jump from 500 to 620 in the first month.Increase by 15% quarter-on-quarter.
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Global Head of Knowledge Management to Senior Global Head of Knowledge Management (Level 003), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 3 · in progressAI Fluency→ Senior Global Head of Knowledge Management (Level 003)→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey in Knowledge Management is about continuous learning and impact. We're here to support your growth, whether that's becoming a deep technical expert, a people leader, or a strategic executive. The most important thing is your drive to make information work better for everyone.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
Global Head of Knowledge Management
  • Taxonomy & Ontology Design (Application)
  • Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) Principles
  • Information Architecture (IA) Basics
  • Content Lifecycle Management (Execution)
  • Knowledge Auditing & Gap Analysis
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Global Head of Knowledge Management is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. You'll move from owning specific content domains to leading entire workstreams or projects, like a major content migration or a new taxonomy design for a business unit. You'll mentor junior colleagues and make more significant technical decisions.

    • Leading KCS adoption for a team.
    • Designing complex information architectures.
    • Advanced knowledge auditing and gap analysis methodologies.
    • Vendor evaluation for KM tools (initial stages).
  2. Lead Knowledge Architect / KM Program Manager (Level 004)

    5-8 years (potentially moving from Sr. KM Specialist)

    This path focuses more on the design and implementation of KM systems and processes across multiple workstreams. You'd be less about individual content creation and more about the underlying structure and programmes.

    • Designing enterprise search configurations.
    • Implementing knowledge governance frameworks.
    • Managing large-scale content migrations.
    • Evaluating and selecting KM technologies.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, Knowledge Management can involve a lot of repetitive tasks. But what if you could offload some of that grunt work to AI? Imagine spending less time drafting and more time strategising and connecting with experts. That's what we're building towards.

We're actively exploring and integrating AI tools to make your day-to-day work smoother and more impactful. You'll be at the forefront of using these tools to transform how we capture, organise, and deliver knowledge globally. This isn't just about 'future tech'; it's about practical tools you'll use from day one.

Automated Content Drafting & Summarisation

Use AI to quickly generate first drafts of knowledge articles from meeting notes, existing documents, or even audio transcripts. It can also summarise long documents into concise, easy-to-read knowledge snippets, saving you hours of writing and editing. You'll then refine and validate, making sure it's accurate and on-brand.

Intelligent Gap Analysis & Prioritisation

Feed thousands of search queries and support tickets into an AI, and it'll cluster themes and pinpoint exactly what information people are looking for but can't find. This gives you a data-driven hit list for new content creation, meaning you're always working on what matters most to our global users.

Enhanced Tagging & Metadata Suggestions

AI can analyse your content and suggest relevant tags and metadata based on our established taxonomy. This helps ensure consistency, improves search results, and saves you the tedious manual work of tagging every single article. It's like having a super-smart assistant for classification.

Semantic Search & Answer Generation Preview

While you won't be building the core AI search engine, you'll be using and providing feedback on early versions of generative AI that can give direct, synthesised answers to user questions, citing your content. This means less 'finding' and more 'knowing' for our global teams, and you'll be helping shape its evolution.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Global Head of Knowledge Management?

Common routes in include Knowledge Management Associate / Junior Specialist (1-2 years), Technical Writer / Content Creator (with KM focus) (2-3 years) and Customer Support Specialist (with KM focus) (3-4 years). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Global Head of Knowledge Management progress to?

This role can lead on to Senior Global Head of Knowledge Management (Level 003) (3-5 years) and Lead Knowledge Architect / KM Program Manager (Level 004) (5-8 years (potentially moving from Sr. KM Specialist)), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Global Head of Knowledge Management in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 3 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Global Head of Knowledge Management?

Increasingly, Prompt Engineering for KM Content and AI-Powered Content Curation & Tagging. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Global Head of Knowledge Management, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 11 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Global Head of Knowledge Management: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 3

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Knowledge Management

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll gain in this role are highly transferable. You could move into broader content strategy, information architecture, learning & development, or even product management roles in various industries, especially those with complex information needs like tech, finance, or pharmaceuticals.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

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