Senior Content Strategist

As a Senior Content Strategist with experience leading the full content strategy lifecycle and advanced content strategy engagements, you bring deep content strategy expertise and business acumen, combining both to identify concepts and patterns in complex situations. You're known for solving problems with a pragmatic and practical approach, scaling your impact across the team.

In this role, you will build and lead content strategy across a portfolio of clients with increased complexity and strategic demand, serving as the Content Strategy subject matter expert across a spectrum of mid- to large-scale projects, with no oversight. You'll drive project implementation and lead advanced content strategy, working across disciplines to bring highly polished, innovative, and transformative digital solutions to life.

Although you will not directly manage people, you will regularly drive team camaraderie, bringing empathy to create safe spaces for taking risks and healthy debate.

This role will ideally be based in the Chicago area, but remote locations across the U.S. are also considered.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop content strategy and messaging frameworks, editorial calendars, editorial/brand guidelines, content models, and publishing workflows.
• Create and structure compelling content for websites, collateral, apps, and other digital experiences aligned to clients’ strategic imperatives and vision.
• Conduct content audits and gap analyses.
• Develop unique concepts and content strategies that solve clients’ business and brand challenges.
• Interview subject-matter experts to gather relevant background information.
• Collaborate with designers, developers, and strategists to create and refine solutions.

Power Skills

• Business Insight: Applies knowledge of business and marketplace to advance org goals.
• Action-Oriented: Takes on new opportunities/challenges with urgency, energy, and enthusiasm.
• Effective Communication: Delivers multi-mode communications with strong clarity and tact.
• Manages Ambiguity: Operates effectively, even when things are not certain or clear.
• Cultivates Innovation: Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances.
• Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively to meet shared objectives.
• Adaptability: Adapts approach in real-time to meet shifting demands of different situations.

Required Experience

• 5 or more years of content strategy experience in an agency or consultancy.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably related to marketing, communications, or writing/journalism.
• Familiarity with content strategy, messaging and channel strategy frameworks/best practices, SEO, and audience/market research methods and tools; Semrush, GA4, Yougov knowledge a plus.
• Familiarity with content design principles and creating content models and templates.
• Familiarity with content management systems; WordPress and Sitecore knowledge a plus.
• Familiarity with AI’s potential to augment content work; hands-on proficiency in various AI tools a plus.
• Experience in multicultural marketing is a plus.

"Don’t check all the boxes? We encourage you to apply anyway. We know smarts grow from a breadth of experiences. Don’t disqualify yourself before you have the chance to be considered. We’d love to meet you."

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits program includes Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO Health coverage, as well as a health savings account with employer-funded contributions. We also offer Dental and Vision insurance. All of our full-time employees are eligible for Life/AD&D insurance and Short/Long Term Disability insurance free of cost, with the option to add additional voluntary coverage if desired.

One North’s 401(k) plan allows employees to save for retirement through pre- or post-tax contributions along with employer-matched funds for maximized savings potential.

Our Transportation Benefits enable employees to also make pre-tax contributions to pay for parking and public transit needs.

We know how important unwinding can be for inspiration, innovation and productivity. Our full-time employees earn 4 weeks of paid time off, in addition to company paid holidays. Employees begin to accrue additional time off once they reach their 3-year and 10-year anniversaries with the business.

One North also understands how critical it is for parents to bond with their new additions. We provide paid Parental and Primary Caregiver Leave to assist and support employees who experience a new birth, adoption or foster placement of a child.

We also offer an Employee Perks Program that offers member-only discounts and corporate rates on everything from pizza and the zoo, to movie tickets, car rentals, and hotels.

We reserve the right to pay above or below the base salary range of $69,600-$104,400 based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification.

Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses, profit sharing, etc.

Please click on the following link to learn more about our full-time internal employment benefits: https://www.teksystems.com/en/careers/benefits

The expected posting close date is June 3, 2026.

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