Job description
Company: AZDS Interactive Group
Location: Denver, CO (Hybrid; open to remote)
Company URL: www.azds.com
Job Type: Full time, salaried
About Us: AZDS Interactive Group is the world’s leading digital agency for the luxury hospitality industry, offering innovative marketing and technology solutions to top-tier luxury travel brands that improve their branded guest experience and deliver measurable conversion increases in room nights and revenue. We pride ourselves on our cutting-edge digital expertise and portfolio of world-renowned clients – from Montage Hotels & Resorts to The Ritz London to Aspen Skiing Company to 700+ other luxury properties across 6 continents – but also on our forward-looking, entrepreneurial culture & atmosphere.
Role: Content Strategist
Role Description: As a Content Strategist, reporting to the Sr. Manager of Content Strategy at AZDS, you will collaborate closely with Product Strategists, UX Designers, and Business Analysts, to collect and compile detailed project requirements and contribute to solution design. You’ll help to streamline design-to-development handoffs and ensure content aligns seamlessly with strategic goals and premium user experiences expected by luxury clientele. You'll actively support clients through structured content preparation, organization, and migration, advocate for their needs throughout each project phase, and deliver comprehensive training and documentation post-launch. Your efforts will foster project clarity, efficiency, and long-term client success.
Key Role Responsibilities:
- Define Content Strategy: During the discovery and definition phases, you will define the project's content strategy by gathering high-level business and user requirements from client stakeholders through facilitating strategic workshops. Your work will inform the detailed design and technical strategy, ensuring a cohesive approach as the project progresses into subsequent phases.
- Information Architecture Definition: Define and document the project's information architecture—including content types, taxonomies, and sitemaps—to establish a structured foundation that supports user experience, content clarity, and long-term content scalability.
- Low-Fidelity Content Artifacts: Produce low-fidelity wireframes, content outlines, or other documentation to align both client and internal teams on page-level content strategy and preliminary functional requirements, enabling clarity and consensus early in the project lifecycle.
- Content Auditing and Optimization: Conduct content audits and recommend improvements around content structure, consistency, and UX alignment.
- Design-to-Development Handoff: Ensure design intentions are preserved throughout development by documenting and clearly communicating design intentions and functionality to the development team.
- Content Implementation: Assist clients with content preparation and organization using proven, repeatable processes to plan for content needs, support production of new content that aligns with the updated design strategy, and oversee content migrations.
- Client Education & Support: Understand client needs, educate them on managing their digital platforms, and integrate their feedback into continuous improvement processes.
Essential Leadership Qualities:
- Tech-Savvy: Understands and thrives in digital environments, embraces new technical concepts quickly and can effectively work with technical team members.
- Self-Organized: Impeccable organizational skills, with the ability to multi-task and manage multiple complex projects simultaneously
- Communication: Excellent communication skills to convey key messages with context, conciseness, and a spirit of white-glove service
- Ownership & accountability: taking responsibility of a process or initiative knowing the “buck stops” with this person, even though multiple teams are involved in its execution
- Curiosity: Resourceful and tech-savvy, with the ability to seek out and learn new technical, UI/UX, analytics, and digital marketing & platform concepts and innovations quickly
- Initiative: exhibits ability to ask for alignment vs. wait for direction
- Team Player: exhibits a positive, optimistic, “roll-up-your-sleeves” attitude, with the ability to not only jump in and assist wherever needed
- Effective Storytelling: can synthesize multiple data points and/or moving pieces down to key insights and drivers to enable actionable decisions, via excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
- Agility: thrives in a fast-paced environment, with multiple moving pieces, and can identify and lead tactics to make progress through ambiguity
- Exceptional service-minded relationship-building skills to foster strong client partnerships.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to set clear objectives and KPIs for marketing initiatives.
- Strong problem-solving skills to address complex marketing challenges and adapt to changing circumstances.
Essential Experience:
- Minimum 3 years in a content strategy, content management, or similar content-focused role.
- Agency experience strongly desired, including experience balancing multiple projects concurrently.
- Hands-on experience managing content within a CMS (ideally CMS-agnostic; WordPress, AEM, or similar platforms preferred).
- Proven track record communicating directly and regularly with clients and stakeholders.
- Familiarity or experience working closely with UX designers, developers, or cross-functional digital teams.
- Experience in creating or contributing to information architecture (content types, taxonomy, sitemaps).
- Experience conducting content audits, migrations, or content quality assurance.
- Experience creating low-fidelity content artifacts such as wireframes, content outlines, or strategic documentation.
- Experience facilitating discovery workshops with client stakeholders, or an eagerness to learn and develop skills in workshop facilitation, is a plus.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Competitive salary based on experience and location
- Flexible time off policy – no set limit per employee
- Remote; hybrid if located in Denver area, with 50% of work days able to be worked remotely
- 401(k) – 4% employer match (without vesting schedule and no compensation maximum)
- Health insurance (company pays 100% of monthly employee premium)
- Dental insurance (company pays 100% of monthly employee premium)
- Vision insurance (company pays 100% of monthly employee premium)
- Life insurance (company pays 100% of monthly employee premium)
- Opportunity to participate in the Company’s on-site hotel & resort property familiarization travel program
- Opportunity to participate in the Company’s month-long Sabbatical program
- Paid time off for major holidays
The estimated salary range for this role in Denver, CO is 60,000 - 75,000 annually, depending on experience and location.
Company URL: www.azds.com
