Senior Content Strategist (Chicago/Hybrid)

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $105K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and steer e‑commerce content strategy for beauty and kitchenware, aligning content with purchasing behavior across Amazon, Walmart, and TikTok Shop.

  • Lead content strategy and briefing for product detail pages and A+ content.
  • Must-have: 3–5 years in content/E‑commerce strategy and agency experience.
  • Standout: Proven ability to translate complex ideas into compelling storytelling and present to non-marketers.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with the Director, Experience strategy to build high performing e-com focused content across a variety of categories including beauty and kitchenware
  • Keep the team informed of rapidly changing behaviors across online shopping culture
  • Understand the relationship between content and purchasing behaviour on a variety of E-commerce platforms including Amazon, Walmart, and TikTok shop
  • Brief creative teams to elevate brand presence across product detail pages and A+ content
  • Analyse competitive content strategies and E-commerce content to identify white space
  • Guide production shoots and video content creation with sharp insights and best practices
  • Build strategy plans, communication hierarchies, segmentation, and white papers of varying complexity while still being understandable by non-marketers
  • Utilize AI tools to expedite content audits and reduce time to insight
  • Understand SEO/GEO best practices and experience working with SEO strategists to implement optimizations into content

Requirements

  • 3-5 years working directly in content strategy and E-commerce strategy
  • Agency experience required
  • Experience digging into data and research and locating actionable insights
  • Experience using AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, ChatGPT, etc.
  • Experience managing and developing junior level strategy talent
  • Experience working with creative teams by participating in concepting/brainstorming sessions and translating ideas
  • Should be able to present complex ideas clearly
  • Fantastic presenter and storyteller
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Unafraid to dive into new platforms and acquire new knowledge
  • Experiencing marketing to Gen Z on digital platforms

Preferred

  • SEO and GEO experience
  • Influencer content and marketing strategy
  • Experience within beauty and kitchenware category

Benefits

  • Generous Medical, Dental, Vision And Other Great Benefits
  • Paid parental and medical leave programs
  • 401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing
  • 15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
  • Hybrid work model
  • Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
  • Inclusive employee resource groups
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tms

tms unites technology and marketing and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions — from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery. Headquartered in Chicago with 10 offices worldwide, we are responsible for some of the world’s most successful and iconic long-term marketing platforms, including McDonald’s Happy Meal and MONOPOLY programs. Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for clients including McDonald’s, adidas, T-Mobile, Starbucks, Vue and O2.

Founded in 1986
Chicago, Illinois, USA
2.8K employees (420 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
24.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.9%
Direct
50.4%
Referral
7.9%
Social
5.3%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
213 (8% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

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