Digital Creative Content Strategist (freelance)

Glendale, CA (On-site)

$41/hr – $46/hrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end digital content strategy and production support for multi-platform campaigns, shaping platform-specific formats, creator partnerships, and on-set execution across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.

  • Own content strategy decks and creative briefs
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration with editors, producers, and talent

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the development of content strategies by researching platforms, identifying audience trends, drafting content pillars, and preparing first-pass strategic materials.
  • Contribute platform-specific recommendations that help define what content belongs on each channel, how it should be formatted, audience fit and how it supports marketing goals.
  • Work with editors, producers, and creative teams to help define the visual look and feel of original digital content, including pacing, graphics, recurring formats, captions, voice, and platform-native treatments.
  • Support business development by ideating digital activations, social extensions, creator integrations, talent ideas, original formats, audience engagement strategies, and practical production approaches for proposed broadcast and digital productions.
  • Support productions and their planning by gathering inputs related to various production departments and timelines.
  • Assist digital productions by preparing shoot agendas, shoot priorities, run-of-show documents, production notes, and creative briefs. May lead to smaller-scale digital shoots or content captures with oversight.
  • Travel to select shoots to support digital capture, production oversight, talent direction, and real-time creative decision-making; capture behind-the-scenes footage, social-first clips, interviews, talent moments, and supplemental assets when needed.
  • Research and recommend digital creators, influencers, editors, freelancers, and production partners.
  • Provide editors and producers with clear creative direction, pacing guidance, platform formatting direction, and visual references.
  • Live natively on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram as both a viewer and participant. This person does not need platform behavior explained to them and should bring informed opinions about what is working now, backed by real examples.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in digital media, entertainment, branded content, social video, digital originals, creator-led production, or broadcast-adjacent content development.
  • Proven ability to create content strategy decks, pitch materials, client-facing presentations, creative proposals, or social content plans.
  • Hands-on background developing or producing digital original content, including short-form and long-form formats.
  • Practical knowledge of production planning, shoot logistics, budgeting, staffing, talent coordination, set workflows, and post-production processes.
  • Experience working with editors, producers, creators, influencers, talent, production teams, clients, and cross-functional stakeholders. Experience with educational, family-friendly, youth, lifestyle, sports, or mission-driven programming is preferred.

Preferred

  • Experience with educational, family-friendly, youth, lifestyle, sports, or mission-driven programming is preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Emotional Wellness Support
  • Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs
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Hearst Media Production Group

Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG), a business unit of Hearst Television, is an independent producer and distributor of original programming for TV stations, broadcast and cable networks and streaming services. HMPG produces hundreds of hours of programming annually across linear, streaming, digital and social media platforms for domestic and international distribution in nearly 100 countries. Its popular shows include “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien,” America’s #1 syndicated political program; the Emmy Award-winning educational/informational (E/I) programming blocks airing weekends nationwide including “Weekend Adventure,” on ABC stations; “CBS Dream Team,” on the CBS Network; “The More You Know,” on the NBC Network; “One Magnificent Morning,” on The CW Network; “Mi Telemundo” on the Telemundo Network and “Go Time!” on independent stations. HMPG also distributes a diverse slate of other programming and content including “Law&Crime Daily,” “Prime Crime,” “Consumer Reports TV,” and the company’s dedicated FAST channels “Xplore” and “The Jack Hanna Channel,” available on some of the most popular smart TVs and streaming platforms.

New York, New York, USA
115 employees (71 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$41/hr – $46/hr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Content Strategy median pay in the United States

$119K/yr

Most earn $91K to $159K. Based on 275 salaries, including bonus and equity.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
37 (32% of company)
Median Tenure
6.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
311.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
27.7%
Direct
57.2%
Referral
11.7%
Social
2.4%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~115

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Digital Creative Content Strategist (freelance)

Hearst Media Production Group · Glendale, CA · On-site