Job description
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.
As our next contract Senior Content Strategist, 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 will 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 we are open to remote locations across the U.S.
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
- You bring 5 or more years of content strategy experience in an agency or consultancy.
- You have a bachelor’s degree, preferably related to marketing, communications, or writing/journalism.
- You‘re familiar with content strategy, messaging and channel strategy frameworks/best practices, SEO, and audience/market research methods and tools; Semrush, GA4, Yougov knowledge a plus.
- You’re familiar with content design principles and creating content models and templates.
- You’re familiar with content management systems; WordPress and Sitecore knowledge a plus.
- You’re familiar 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.
Requirements
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
The expected posting close date is June 19, 2026.
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