{"id":133975,"date":"2025-09-05T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133975\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:14:08","slug":"the-ai-boom-is-turning-content-strategists-into-top-earners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133975\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI Boom Is Turning Content Strategists Into Top Earners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far from devaluing creativity, the AI boom is making it one of the most expensive skills in tech.<\/p>\n<p>A job listing for a content strategist at OpenAI, posted earlier this week, comes with a pay package that rivals senior <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cluely-hiring-salary-engineers-designers-chungin-roy-lee-a16z-2025-7\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">engineering roles<\/a>: $310,000 to $393,000 in base salary plus equity.<\/p>\n<p>Glassdoor data shows the average US content strategist earns about $92,000.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI&#8217;s posting says the person hired will &#8220;define and execute the content strategy for ChatGPT.com.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll shape how our brand sounds to the world, set the voice and tone guidelines, and roll up your sleeves to write, edit, and publish content that resonates with a global audience of both businesses and consumers,&#8221; the company wrote.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI is targeting candidates with 6 to 10 or more years of experience in content strategy, copywriting, or growth marketing at a &#8220;high-growth company or prominent brand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI isn&#8217;t alone in paying up for content talent. <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/meta-salaries-what-it-pays-ai-engineers-researchers-compensation-2025-7\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meta<\/a> posted a job last week for a content engineer role tied to generative AI with compensation of $159,000 to $223,000 in base salary plus bonus and equity.<\/p>\n<p>Meta says its GenAI content engineering team has backgrounds in  &#8220;journalism, social media, creative storytelling, writing, editing, visual arts, film &amp; TV production, and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Applicants are expected to have extensive experience in digital content strategy, along with at least a year of hands-on work with GenAI products, prompt engineering, annotation, or content labeling and analysis, the posting said.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI and Meta did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>                      Related stories<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image \" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754989098_269_placeholder.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image \" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754989098_269_placeholder.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n<p>            The rise of content jobs<\/p>\n<p>High-paying content jobs are cropping up across the industry \u2014 especially in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jpmorgan-investor-day-resist-hiring-headcount-ai-efficiencies-jamie-dimon-2025-5\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sectors being reshaped by AI.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ai-messaging-backlash-duolingo-shopify-controversy-2025-5\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Duolingo advertised<\/a> for a director of social media with a salary band topping out at $342,000. PayPal recently listed a head of CEO content role paying up to nearly $240,000.<\/p>\n<p>PwC&#8217;s 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer, published in June, found wages in AI-exposed industries are rising twice as fast as those in less exposed ones, and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/openai-certification-academy-ai-job-training-2025-9\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">workers with AI skills<\/a> command a 56% wage premium. PwC analyzed about 841 million job ads across 24 countries, including the US, UK, Hong Kong, and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh content job titles are also emerging. According to Autodesk&#8217;s 2025 AI Jobs Report published in June, postings for an &#8220;AI Content Creator&#8221; surged 134.5% year over year, based on an analysis of nearly 3 million global job ads.<\/p>\n<p>Some startups are leaning hard on content, too.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ai-cheating-startup-cluely-hire-influencer-chungin-roy-lee-2025-6\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Viral AI &#8220;cheating&#8221; startup Cluely<\/a> is betting on influencers to drive growth.<\/p>\n<p>Cluely needs to be &#8220;the biggest thing&#8221; on Instagram and TikTok, CEO and cofounder Chungin &#8220;Roy&#8221; Lee said on a podcast in June. &#8220;Every single big company is known by regular people,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lee previously told BI that his main goal for Cluely is to reach 1 billion views across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Far from devaluing creativity, the AI boom is making it one of the most expensive skills in tech.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-133975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}