Lead Content Architect - FTC; Mat Cover

Who We Are

Zoopla is one of the UK’s most instantly recognisable property brands. In fact, we’re known and loved by over 91% of the nation (and we’re working hard on the other 9%). Our mission is to help the nation make better home decisions - by connecting everyone to their home and giving them personalised insights to help with moving, managing or financing.

Over 50 million people visit Zoopla every month to access exclusive data and information on every UK property, search over 500,000 homes for sale and rent, find the best agents and secure the latest mortgage deals.

We’re a growing, dynamic team that embraces innovation and isn’t afraid to push the boundaries. We’re only just starting our journey to redefine the digital property landscape, with much more to explore and achieve. Join us, and transform the way the nation makes home decisions.

As Lead Content Architect, you’ll drive brand perception and business impact across both our consumer and customer audiences with content personalisation  consumers (buyers, sellers, renters, homeowners), you’ll build content systems that both supercharge engagement from our 6m+ subscribed homeowner database, and accelerate the adoption of our AI-powered search experience through useful and intuitive content journeys onsite and across marketing channels alike.

For customers (estate agents and house builders) it’s a similar opportunity: to strengthen partnerships by continuously demonstrating how Zoopla supports their business growth at every key touchpoint.

In practice, You’ll build the workflows, prompt libraries and quality controls that enable a small in-house team to deliver at scale without diluting our brand voice. You’ll also be instrumental in building Zoopla’s presence and authority in AI search and LLM responses, driving Zoopla citation in property conversations everywhere.

This is a maternity-cover role with elevated scope: the right hire for someone who wants real ownership and visible impact in a one-year window by building something that outlasts the contract. You’ll partner closely with the entire Marketing function as we transition into a system-first, hyper-personalised model.

• Content Strategy & Operating Model
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  Define and own Zoopla’s content strategy across consumer and customer audiences in alignment with business OKRs. You’ll design an operating model with support from the wider Marketing function, with clear briefing standards, channel logic and feedback loops that connect content activity to commercial performance.
• AI Content Architecture & Engine Ops
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  Evolve and run an AI-enabled content production system including brief, drafting, review, brand voice QA, channel adaptation and performance measurement for content delivered across site, CRM, organic social, etc - all laddering back to our hero audience propositions. Embed tooling (Contentful workflows, Amplitude-led content decisions, wider AI stack) into the team’s daily practice and partner with the Head of Digital to lift the floor of AI fluency across Marketing
• Video & Multi-Format Content
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  Architect how Zoopla scales video using AI-assisted workflows (script-to-screen, motion graphics, voice, dynamic cutdowns). Define the toolchain, brief format and QA process so we produce a consistent cadence of publishable video without agency resource.
• Governance, Quality & AEO
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  Own the AI content governance model across accuracy, brand voice compliance and legal/regulatory guardrails. Work with the SEO team and Head of Digital to drive Zoopla’s AEO strategy, fuelled by Zoopla’s research, product and data insights and ensuring all content supports citation by LLMs when consumers ask property questions. Steward the continuation of Zoopla’s expertise into the AI-era property conversation.
• Content Performance & Audience Journeys
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  Work with Product Design and Product Managers to own how we measure and report on content’s contribution to the business. Build the view of how content captures and converts key audiences through the onsite funnel, starting with high-intent movers and scaling to our wider homeowner audience over time.
• Brand Voice Guardianship & Messaging…