Editorial Content Strategist, Digital & Insights

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$86K/yr – $142K/yrMid Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 9 days ago

Job Summary

Own rapid, multichannel content for fast-moving campaigns and long-term reputation-building while coordinating with media relations, digital, and design teams to translate data into integrated storytelling.

  • Own rapid response content across earned, owned, and paid channels
  • Align messaging with media relations and campaign goals
  • Collaborate with SEO, analytics, and design to optimize performance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead rapid response content development across earned, owned, and paid channels for large scale campaign — from breaking news moments to proactive campaign beats
  • Serve as the editorial and strategic lead on content that reaches a variety of audiences, including but not limited to media, policymakers and regulators
  • Monitor news cycles, track emerging trends, and identify opportunities to insert clients into relevant conversations
  • Draft and edit a range of content quickly and with precision, including press materials, digital copy, paid media scripts, executive messaging, and more
  • Develop content strategies for long-term reputation building projects, ensuring consistent narrative continuity across campaigns, channels, and client touchpoints
  • Partner closely with the media relations team to ensure content is strategically aligned, on message, and ready to move at the pace of the news cycle
  • Collaborate with digital, creative, and design teams to concept and produce campaign assets aligned to strategic objectives
  • Partner across practice areas to ensure content is integrated, consistent, and ladders up to broader campaign goals
  • Bring a journalist's instincts and a strategist's discipline to everything you write and produce
  • Collaborate with SEO, AEO, and analytics experts to optimize content performance and discoverability.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in communications, PR, content strategy, or a related field
  • Deep understanding of the media landscape and what makes content newsworthy — without necessarily owning media relationships directly
  • Strong writing across formats — long-form, short-form, organic social, paid media, executive voice
  • Experience translating data and insights into multichannel content
  • Experience working in or alongside digital and creative teams on integrated campaigns
  • Comfort with the creative concepting process and ability to brief and collaborate with designers and producers
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams under deadline pressure
  • Strong project management capabilities, including oversight of multichannel, integrated campaigns, with a proven ability to manage senior and junior team members

Preferred

  • Experience in public affairs, policy, or regulated industries is a plus
  • Experience working with optimization for SEO and LLMs
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Editorial Content Strategist, Digital & Insights

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