Web Content Development Manager at SolarWinds
- In Austin, TX.
At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions. The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us! About the role SolarWinds is seeking a Content Web Development Lead to modernize how web content is planned, created, tested, approved, and published. This role combines AI-forward workflow design, CMS and frontend expertise, QA automation, launch coordination, and team leadership. You will improve publishing across [website removed], WordPress, Aprimo DAM, React and Next.js experiences, and the workflows connecting Web PMs, Content, SEO, Design, Analytics, Marketing, QA, and Web Development. This player-coach role combines hands-on contribution, team mentorship, operating-model improvement, and prioritization across competing work. What you’ll do Lead AI-forward content operations Build governed, spec-driven agentic workflows for content intake, drafting, QA, approvals, and launches. Use AI tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, [website removed] AI, or comparable platforms to improve requirements refinement, content operations, QA, documentation, triage, and release preparation. Design agentic workflows for ticket intake, content drafting, metadata checks, test execution, issue creation, localization support, and launch-readiness reporting. Govern automation with draft-first boundaries, human approval, audit trails, permissions, validation evidence, rollback procedures, and clear ownership. Measure AI’s impact on delivery speed, throughput, quality, coverage, and team capacity while protecting security, accessibility, SEO, and editorial judgment. Own web publishing and CMS delivery Manage publishing from intake and prioritization through content preparation, preview, UAT, approval, launch, and post-launch validation. Support [website removed] and WordPress templates, components, permissions, content models, revisions, and controlled releases. Improve self-service publishing while ensuring complex layouts, integrations, SEO changes, and high-risk releases receive appropriate technical review. Provide practical frontend guidance across HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, responsive behavior, browser debugging, and component-based web experiences. Support CMS migrations and modernization while preserving URLs, content structure, metadata, analytics, redirects, and business functionality. Govern Aprimo DAM practices including asset metadata, classification, lifecycle status, approved-public usage, renditions, expiry, and page-usage tracking. Lead QA automation and web quality Establish automated testing for functional, visual, accessibility, SEO, links, analytics, performance, mobile, cross-browser, and production smoke coverage. Use tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Applitools, Lighthouse, crawlers, and real-user monitoring to improve release confidence. Define acceptance criteria and evidence requirements so every launch has named approvers, documented validation, and a rollback or remediation path. Monitor defect escape rate, test coverage, recurring failure patterns, Core Web Vitals, accessibility issues, and post-launch performance. Evaluate usability and user experience across desktop, mobile, content structure, navigation, forms, and key conversion paths. …