Senior Content Strategist

Redmond, WA (Hybrid)

$106K/yr – $223K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 20 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the content strategy and governance for Microsoft Store commerce experiences, defining scalable content models, product-knowledge standards, and decision-support journeys.

  • Lead taxonomy and collaboration with Search, UX, and product-data teams.
  • Use data and experimentation to improve discovery, comprehension, and conversion.
  • Align content governance with SEO, AI-enabled experiences, and cross-functional partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define the commerce content strategy: Develop and evolve the content strategy for Microsoft Store and priority Microsoft.com commerce experiences, aligned to customer needs, business goals, and global scale.
  • Create reusable content models: Design scalable frameworks for common customer needs, including frequently asked questions, comparisons, buying guides, product-value frameworks, use-case guidance, and recommendation experiences.
  • Define product-knowledge requirements and establish product truth: Define how product claims, terminology, attributes, relationships, use cases, and comparisons should be represented consistently across customer experiences.
  • Design human and machine decision journeys: Translate customer questions, product complexity, and journey friction into clear buying guidance, decision-support experiences, and product-knowledge requirements.
  • Lead content and commerce taxonomy strategy: Define the terminology, categories, attributes, and relationships used to organize commerce content. Partner with Search on query intent, synonyms, retrieval, filters, and relevance; with UX on information architecture; and with product-data teams on authoritative specifications and source systems.
  • Partner with SEO and AI SEO: Convert search demand, customer questions, visibility gaps and citation opportunities into prioritized content strategies.
  • Improve content quality and consistency: Establish standards and governance for terminology, naming, comparison logic, freshness, accuracy, and ownership across marketing and merchandising experiences.
  • Simplify customer decision-making: Lead audits to identify content gaps, duplication, conflicting product information, and opportunities to make complex choices easier to understand.
  • Use data to improve the experience: Apply customer signals, content performance, search insights, and experimentation to determine which content patterns improve discovery, comprehension, comparison, conversion, and long-term customer value.
  • Advance AI-enabled experiences responsibly: Ensure product knowledge is clear, structured and reliable enough to support Search, conversational experiences, and emerging shopping agents without compromising accuracy or customer trust.

Requirements

  • Master's Degree in Business, Marketing, Economics, Social Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Communications, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 3+ years experience in retail, customer service, ecommerce, data science, research, marketing or business-related roles OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Economics, Social Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Communications, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in retail, customer service, ecommerce, data science, research, marketing or business-related roles OR equivalent experience.

Preferred

  • 7+ years of experience in content strategy, content design, information architecture, taxonomy, ecommerce, digital product management or related roles.
  • Experience defining content strategy and governance for complex global digital experiences.
  • Experience with product taxonomy, content modeling, structured content, information architecture or product-knowledge systems.
  • Understanding of ecommerce discovery, evaluation, comparison and purchase journeys.
  • Working knowledge of search engine optimization, AI-search optimization and AI-influenced customer discovery.
  • Experience using customer research, performance data and experimentation to inform content or product decisions.
  • Experience translating content and customer-experience requirements into specifications for technical or product teams.
  • Practical experience using AI to research, prototype, analyze or improve content and digital workflows.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and deliver results across large, matrixed organizations.
  • Ability to move between strategy, detailed problem-solving and hands-on experimentation.
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Redmond, Washington, US
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Salaries

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$106K/yr – $223K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$1M
Last Raise
$1M
Post IPO Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2022
    Post IPO Equity
  • Jan 2020
    Post IPO Equity
  • Sep 1981
    Series Unknown • $1M

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1.3B
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$5.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.6%
Direct
56.9%
Referral
7.3%
Social
0.4%
Paid
1.2%

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Current headcount: ~225.8K

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Senior Content Strategist

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