Turning content into product infrastructure

Designing activation, onboarding, and governance systems that scale across teams

At a glance

  • Scope: Activation, onboarding, and content governance

  • Focus: Lifecycle content, cross-functional enablement

  • Outcome: Content embedded into product and organizational workflows


Context

As Nulab’s content ecosystem matured, content increasingly needed to support product adoption and internal teams, not just marketing goals.

While Learn drove discovery, there was an opportunity to evolve content into a shared system that supported onboarding, usage, and cross-functional collaboration.


The problem

Content was valuable, but under-leveraged across the organization.

  • Organic traffic didn’t consistently translate into activation

  • Onboarding knowledge lived in scattered places

  • Internal teams lacked reliable ways to find and reuse content

  • Content requests were often reactive and unprioritized

Without governance, content couldn’t fully support the product lifecycle.


My role

I led the strategy for repositioning content as product infrastructure, with ownership across:

  • Activation and onboarding content strategy

  • Cross-functional collaboration with product, CS, onboarding, and email

  • Content governance and operating models

  • Internal enablement and discovery systems

My focus was on building systems that worked for both users and teams.


The approach

I evolved Learn from a traffic-first SEO hub into a lifecycle content platform.

This included:

  • Designing setup tutorials aligned to core product actions

  • Creating use-case- and industry-specific onboarding paths

  • Mapping content directly to product features and workflows

  • Ensuring content supported education, adoption, and ongoing usage

In parallel, I built the internal structures needed to scale:

  • Content request and prioritization workflows

  • Editorial standards and maintenance practices

  • Internal cheat sheets and content libraries for reuse

The goal was clarity — externally and internally.


Key decisions

Several choices shaped how content functioned across the organization:

  • Prioritized activation over raw traffic growth

  • Designed content for reuse across teams, not single audiences

  • Formalized governance and operating models

  • Treated content as shared infrastructure, not marketing output

These decisions reduced friction and improved trust across teams.


Impact

Content became a durable, shared layer of the product and organization.

  • Learn content supported onboarding and setup flows

  • CS, onboarding, and email teams reused content with confidence

  • Content planning became more predictable and scalable

  • Activation pathways from discovery into product usage strengthened


Why this work still matters

As products and organizations scale, content must support real usage and understanding, not just discovery.

This system continues to enable adoption, clarity, and collaboration as teams and platforms evolve.


What this demonstrates

  • Full-funnel content ownership

  • Product-aligned content strategy

  • Cross-functional leadership

  • Content operations and governance design

  • Content as infrastructure


This case study reflects my belief that content is most powerful when it’s built into the product and the organization — not layered on top.

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