Senior Content Strategist (Content & Platform Strategy)

Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)

$90K/yr – $115K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own social content direction and briefs across platforms, turning culture signals into practical content direction and tests.

  • Social strategy ownership and briefs for monthly content, campaigns, and creators.
  • Translate cultural signals and platform shifts into clear content direction with hooks and formats.
  • Partner with Analytics and Creative to turn performance data into actionable recommendations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead social and content strategy across assigned accounts
  • Develop monthly organic social briefs, content strategy inputs, content calendar guidance, and platform/channel direction
  • Translate client goals, audience behavior, cultural signals, and platform shifts into clear content direction
  • Bring a POV on what brands should post, test, stop doing, or push further
  • Write briefs that creative and creator teams can actually use
  • Build social-first briefs for monthly content, campaigns, creators, and CGC
  • Turn insights, trends, performance learnings, and audience tension into useful creative direction
  • Clarify platform roles, audience behaviors, formats, hooks, messages, and reasons to believe
  • Review and sharpen creative
  • Partner with Creative on concept reviews and pressure-test ideas for platform fit, brand fit, audience relevance, and clarity

Requirements

  • 4-6 years of experience in social media strategy, content strategy, digital strategy or integrated communications
  • Agency, social agency, PR agency, creative agency, influencer agency or content studio experience strongly preferred
  • Strong understanding of organic social and how content behaves across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, Threads, LinkedIn and other relevant platforms
  • Deep fluency in short-form video, including creator-led content and influencer work
  • Experience writing social briefs, content briefs, monthly content plans, creator/UGC briefs, campaign inputs or channel strategies
  • Can spot what is actually happening in culture, not just what is loud online, and translate it into ideas a brand has a real reason to act on
  • Curiosity and working knowledge of how emerging communities and platforms (Reddit, Twitch, WhatsApp, etc.) are shaping consumer engagement
  • Skilled at partnering with analytics teams to interpret social performance metrics and turn them into practical optimization guidance
  • Strong writing skills for briefs, POVs, reporting commentary, client decks and internal recommendations
  • Comfortable sharing a clear POV in internal and client conversations
  • Ability to manage multiple accounts, timelines, reviews and deliverables without losing the thread
  • Love a sharp brief, a strong hook and a TikTok concept that feels native to the platform
  • Creative enough to push the work, organized enough to keep it moving and practical enough to know the difference

Preferred

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health care coverage
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO)
  • 18 company holidays
  • Flex Fridays
  • PrayCare wellness stipend and Rebalance Day
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Paid parental leave and fertility support
  • Training, learning and professional development programs
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Praytell

Praytell is a creative communications agency specializing in creative that earns. We’re stacked with strategic minds and spirited hearts, all obsessed with the art and science of attention. Our people-first culture creates the right headspace for making killer work that helps our clients grow. (It’s also made us PRWeek’s Best Place to Work eight times so far.)

Founded in 2013
Brooklyn, New York, USA
179 employees (53 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$16
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.7%
Direct
52.9%
Referral
6.4%
Social
7.2%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~180

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
40 (22% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6