Senior Content Strategist

About this role

You’re 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’ve been known for solving problems with a pragmatic and practical approach, scaling your impact across the team.


As our next 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 Chicagoland 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.
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