Content Strategist

Phoenix, AZ (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level4+ years exp

Posted 11 days ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-channel content strategy across organic social, paid media, email, SEO, web, blogs, and other digital channels.
  • Translate business objectives, audience insights, cultural trends, platform behavior, and performance data into actionable content strategies and creative direction.
  • Develop and evolve brand voice, messaging frameworks, content pillars, editorial priorities, and channel strategies across the customer journey.
  • Lead organic social strategy and content planning, ensuring ideas are culturally relevant, platform-native, and tailored to audience behaviors.
  • Stay ahead of platform shifts, emerging communities, creator behavior, and cultural trends to identify relevant opportunities for clients.
  • Develop clear, actionable creative briefs that define objectives, audiences, messaging, formats, hooks, calls to action, and measures of success.
  • Lead brainstorms and partner with Design, Paid Media, Email, Account, and other teams to turn strategy into compelling, integrated execution.
  • Review and quality-control content for strategic alignment, brand consistency, platform fit, clarity, and overall quality.
  • Analyze content and creative performance using KPIs, SEO insights, audience behavior, and competitive data to identify opportunities and inform optimization.
  • Translate performance learnings into recommendations, testing opportunities, and future content strategy.

Requirements

  • 4–6 years of experience in content strategy or a related discipline.
  • Agency experience strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience developing content strategies, messaging frameworks, editorial calendars, and creative briefs across organic social, paid media, email, web, and SEO.
  • Strong understanding of how content, messaging, and audience behavior differ across digital channels and platforms.
  • Exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with the ability to adapt voice and tone across brands, audiences, and formats.
  • Ability to turn performance data, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, and cultural trends into actionable creative recommendations.
  • Working knowledge of SEO, website content strategy, and performance-driven copywriting.
  • Strong presentation and communication skills, with confidence articulating clear strategic POVs to clients and internal teams.
  • Ability to manage multiple accounts, priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines in a fast-paced agency environment.
  • Curiosity and working knowledge of emerging platforms, cultural shifts, AI, and new technologies, with experience in Figma and collaborative project management tools.

Benefits

  • Health, Dental, Vision, 3 weeks PTO, generous paid holiday schedule, mobile phone allowance and matching 401-K (after 1st year of employment), in-office with WFH Fridays, dog-friendly and energetic work environment, future upward mobility and growth path, Partial paid maternity/paternity leave.
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Defero

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Born from disruption, built for agility. We are a full-surround, integrated marketing agency that prides itself in being a true strategic partner for brands in the digital age.Our mission is to provide results-oriented marketing and communication strategies designed to facilitate the measurable success of our clients. Defero has provided extensive holistic marketing strategy, brand strategy and development, user centric web design, and execution services for brands such as Combat, Right Guard, Sun Devil Auto, International Market Centers, Dial, National Kidney Foundation of Arizona, Phoenix Children’s Hospital and others over our 12+ years.

Founded in 2006
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
52 employees (10 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

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Content Strategist

Defero · Phoenix, AZ · On-site