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Content Team Lead Jobs in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa at Silver Sage Creative
Title: Content Team Lead
Company: Silver Sage Creative
Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Company Description
Silver Sage Creative is a creative marketing agency that helps complex businesses communicate with clarity, build trust, and drive sustainable growth.
We partner with businesses across tech, finance, consulting, and advisory industries to turn complex ideas into clear narratives through strategic content, UX-focused websites, email marketing, and thoughtful digital experiences.
Our work sits at the intersection of storytelling, strategy, and purposeful marketing. We believe great marketing should not only look good, but communicate clearly, create meaningful connections, and support long-term business growth.
As a Christian values-led agency founded by a husband and wife team, we care deeply about integrity, creativity, curiosity, collaboration, and building a healthy, people-first culture.
Role Description
We are looking for a thoughtful and strategic Content Team Lead to oversee the daily operations of our content team and help shape the quality and direction of our client work.
This is a leadership role for someone who understands both creativity and strategy, and who can guide a team in producing clear, purposeful, high-quality content for complex B2B industries.
The Content Team Lead will oversee content planning, editing, quality control, project coordination, and team management while collaborating closely with leadership and clients to ensure work aligns with strategic goals and brand positioning.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the content team across multiple client projects
- Review and edit content to ensure clarity, quality, and consistency
- Oversee content calendars, workflows, and project timelines
- Collaborate with strategists, designers, and leadership on campaigns and messaging
- Translate complex ideas into accessible, engaging content
- Support thought leadership and long-form B2B content creation
- Maintain high creative and editorial standards across all deliverables
- Help mentor and develop junior creatives and writers
- Contribute to internal creative strategy and process improvements
Qualifications
- Strong experience in content marketing, editorial, or B2B content strategy
- Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills
- Experience leading or managing creative teams
- Strong organisational and project management abilities
- Ability to think strategically while maintaining attention to detail
- Comfortable working across industries such as tech, finance, consulting, and advisory
- Deep understanding of storytelling, messaging, and audience psychology
- Emotionally intelligent, collaborative, and proactive
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, English, or related field preferred but not required
Who You Are
- A clear thinker and thoughtful communicator
- Curious about businesses, industries, and human behaviour
- Someone who values substance over noise
- Strategically creative rather than trend-driven
- Calm under pressure and highly organised
- Passionate about meaningful storytelling and purposeful marketing
- Excited to help build a growing, people-first agency culture