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title: "Roles"
description: "Strategists, designers, managers, teams. The jobs content needs done, and the many names they go by."
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# Roles

Strategists, designers, managers, teams. The jobs content needs done, and the many names they go by.

- [Content designer](https://contentlexicon.com/content-designer): A role that uses evidence about people's needs to decide what content should exist and to design it so they can understand and act on it.
- [Content editor](https://contentlexicon.com/content-editor): A role that edits, publishes and maintains an organisation's content so that each piece meets its standards and fits with the rest.
- [Content manager](https://contentlexicon.com/content-manager): A role responsible for the day-to-day running of an organisation's content, from planning and production to quality and upkeep.
- [Content operations manager](https://contentlexicon.com/content-operations-manager): A role responsible for running and improving how an organisation's content work happens: its workflows, tools, standards and routines.
- [Content strategist](https://contentlexicon.com/content-strategist): A role responsible for deciding what an organisation's content is for and designing how it is planned, structured, made and looked after.
- [Content team](https://contentlexicon.com/content-team): The group of people and roles responsible for planning, creating, governing and maintaining content.
- [Head of content](https://contentlexicon.com/head-of-content): A senior role responsible for all the content an organisation publishes, and for the people, standards and systems that produce and look after it.
- [Senior content editor](https://contentlexicon.com/senior-content-editor): A senior editorial role accountable for what gets covered, how it is commissioned and the standard it meets.
- [UX writer](https://contentlexicon.com/ux-writer): A writer specialising in clear interface words that help people complete tasks.
- [Writer](https://contentlexicon.com/writer): A role that researches and writes content for an organisation, shaped by its audience, voice and purpose.