Company Description Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values: Leading with exceptional ideas, giving back, doing the right thing, and putting clients first. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve, to grow.
Role Overview The Associate, Content Marketing will be a core member of the Firmwide Marketing organization, supporting the development, evaluation, and amplification of high-quality content that enables the Firm's ability to Lead with Exceptional Ideas. This role is designed for an experienced creative marketer with a strong foundation in advertising and marketing, who brings exceptional writing skills, sound creative judgment, and the ability to work cross-functionally in a regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities > Write clear, strategic creative briefs rooted in business objectives, audience insights, messaging frameworks, and channel requirements.
> Evaluate messaging and creative in support of campaigns that appear across digital, social, paid and owned channels, ensuring alignment with brand standards, clarity of message, and effectiveness.
> Provide thoughtful, actionable feedback to internal teams and agency partners to elevate creative quality.
> Develop, edit, and refine high-quality copy across formats including campaign messaging, headlines, scripts, and short- and long-form content.
> Lead paid media trafficking responsibilities, including coordination and organization of creative assets, adherence to specifications, versioning, and delivery timelines in partnership with media and channel teams.
> Partner closely with Content, Brand, Social, Digital, Legal & Compliance, and external agencies to move work forward efficiently and compliantly.
> Navigate content reviews and approvals with Legal & Compliance to ensure adherence to firm policies and regulatory standards.
> Support project timelines, workflows, and handoffs to ensure campaigns and content initiatives are delivered on time and on brief.
> Collaborate with analytics and channel partners to review performance insights and apply learnings to future creative and messaging.
Requirements > Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in creative advertising and marketing, with agency or in-house agency background preferred.
> Experience working in financial services and highly regulated environments preferred.
> Proficient in social media best practices, with an emphasis on video and video promotion.
> Demonstrated ability to write strong creative briefs and evaluate creative work for organic and paid media campaigns.
> Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills with strong attention to detail.
> Experience with Canva and other creative tools is a plus
> Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally in complex organizations.
> Highly organized, proactive, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
> Experience using Canva or similar creative and AI enabled tools to support efficient content creation, iteration, and collaboration is a plus.
What You Can Expect From Morgan Stanley At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $85,000 and $105,000 per year at
the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.
It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).
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