Senior Content Strategist - Freelance

New York City, NY (Remote)

$156K/yr – $195K/yrSenior Level8+ years expContract

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end content strategy for high-visibility digital products, partnering with product, UX, and analytics to shape voice, taxonomies, and measurable outcomes across web and app experiences.

  • Define and socialize content strategies, frameworks, and taxonomies that improve outcomes
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration with product, UX, and analytics teams to deliver content-driven experiences
  • Measure impact with KPIs and drive ongoing optimization through evidence-based storytelling

Job Description

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in content strategy for digital products, apps, and web platforms, with a portfolio that demonstrates structured thinking and measurable outcomes on complex, high-visibility consumer experiences
  • Strong writing and editing skills, with the ability to define voice, tone, messaging hierarchies, and editorial guidelines across product and marketing surfaces
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze user, client, and business needs and develop relevant content strategies, frameworks, and taxonomies that measurably improve outcomes
  • Comfort consuming large quantities of research and data, including behavioral, consumer, industry, and academic sources, to inform perspectives, set KPIs, and partner on measurement
  • Experience driving content for high-traffic digital surfaces, including information architecture, navigation, personalization, SEO, accessibility, experimentation, and content operations
  • Proven success working cross-functionally with strategists, product managers, UX designers, copywriters, creatives, engineering, and analytics teams
  • Strong presentation skills, with the ability to craft persuasive narratives and present confidently to senior clients and internal leadership
  • Knowledge of contemporary practice across digital product development, including agile delivery, content governance, and operational frameworks
  • Ability to take responsibility for on-time deliverables and expertly crafted perspectives within an accelerated timeline

Preferred

  • Undaunted by the unknown; ambiguity sparks your curiosity and accelerates your learning
  • A love of hard problems and a drive to inspire new ways of thinking across teams and stakeholders
  • A passion for transforming large amounts of disorganized information into clarity through structure, rigor, and systems
  • Deep affinity for the end user, with empathy that translates into usable, valuable content experiences
  • Extreme attention to detail coupled with the ability to zoom out to a compelling strategic narrative
  • Phenomenal communication skills and the ability to partner with senior clients and executive stakeholders
  • 8+ years working across digital experience, brand experience, customer experience, or communications; an intersection of more than one is ideal; experience with financial services, membership and loyalty programs, or mobile app ecosystems is a plus
  • Self-directed and proactive; comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment
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AKQA

3.8 Glassdoor

AKQA is a creative company at the intersection of imagination and technology, with a global presence across 19 countries, and 30 locations. For more than three decades, AKQA has pioneered what’s next. From the dawn of digital to the rise of AI, AKQA is globally recognised for its creative excellence and innovation. The company has earned top honours including the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Grand Prix for Digital Craft 2023, Design and Glass 2024, and Innovation 2025, alongside seven Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards and three World Changing Ideas Awards.

Founded in 1994
San Francisco, California, USA
2K employees (657 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
82% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$156K/yr – $195K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Content Strategy median pay in the United States

$120K/yr

Most pay falls between $91K and $160K. Based on 300 salaries.

See all AKQA salaries

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
215 (11% of company)
Median Tenure
5.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$71M
Last Raise
$71M
Series Unknown, 25 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2001
    Series Unknown • $71M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
130.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.7%
Direct
39.2%
Referral
9.9%
Social
4.9%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2K
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Senior Content Strategist - Freelance

AKQA · New York City, NY · Remote