Job description
MyHeritage is looking for a Content Development Manager to join our growing international content acquisition team. In this role, you’ll be bringing historical records to one of the largest and fastest-growing family history websites in the world. Our product is used by tens of millions of people worldwide, and has the power to change lives for the better.
As Content Development Manager, you will identify potential new historical name indexes to publish from a variety of sources. You will work with archival catalogues and scour the internet for potential new partners and collections of interest. You’ll enhance our historical record and newspaper offerings, ensuring we have relevant, detailed, and thorough metadata that makes online searching more powerful and granular than ever..
What you’ll do:
- Source and Evaluate Records: Identify and assess new historical record collections and potential partner organisations globally.
- Project Management: Use project management tools to track and deliver multiple content acquisition projects from start to finish.
- Metadata Management: Improve the quality and consistency of historical data, ensuring records are easy for users to find.
- Delivery & Stakeholder Management: Review partner output and collaborate with internal teams to guide new material through the ingestion process.
- Quality & Compliance: Conduct QA checks to ensure accuracy while maintaining legal and ethical standards in content acquisition.
- Market Awareness: Monitor trends in genealogy and historical research to help inform future content strategies.
What you bring:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in History, Archive/Library Studies, Information Management, or a related field.
- Relevant Experience: Background in genealogy, archival research, or metadata management, including familiarity with standards like MODS, MARC, or Dublin Core.
- Technical & Research Skills: Proficiency in Excel and PM tools, with a strong ability to locate information across diverse digital and archival sources.
- Organisation & Detail: Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal skills, with the ability to build professional relationships and write clear content assessments.
- Languages & Passion: A genuine interest in family history and knowledge of additional European languages are significant advantages.
If you said yes to all or most of the above, you could be just the person we are looking for. Let’s make history together.
Additional information:
This is a hybrid role based in our Edinburgh office.
About MyHeritage
MyHeritage is the leading global discovery platform for exploring family history. With billions of historical records and family tree profiles, and with sophisticated matching technologies that work across all its assets, MyHeritage gives users the joy of discovering their past and empowering their future. MyHeritage is the most popular DNA test and family history service in Europe. Since 2020, MyHeritage is also home to the world’s most advanced AI technologies for repairing, enhancing, colourizing, and animating historical photos.
Learn more at www.myheritage.com. See what it’s like to work at MyHeritage on www.glassdoor.com.
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