Senior Content Strategist

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$70K/yr – $104K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and drive content strategy, governance, and AI-enabled optimization for client programs, shaping processes, workflows, and cross-disciplinary workstreams.

  • Lead client workshops and discussions to align stakeholders and drive actionable outcomes.
  • Apply AI tools to accelerate strategy and deepen research while evaluating risks and impacts.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop content strategy and messaging frameworks, editorial calendars, editorial/brand guidelines, content models, and publishing workflows that solve clients’ business and brand challenges.
  • Shape and steward the processes, governance, and operational frameworks that translate content strategy into repeatable, scalable execution.
  • Search engine optimization (SEO): Develop strategies that raise clients’ digital presence and discoverability within tradition search experiences.
  • Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Develop strategies that improve clients’ visibility, legibility, relevance, and discoverability within AI-powered search and large language model (LLM) experiences.
  • Create and structure compelling content for websites, collateral, apps, and other digital experiences aligned to clients’ strategic imperatives and vision.
  • Conduct content audits and gap analyses.
  • Interview subject-matter experts to gather relevant background information.
  • Facilitate client discussions, workshops, and presentations with clarity, credibility, and confidence—guiding stakeholders toward alignment, informed decisions, and actionable outcomes.
  • Collaborate across disciplines to create and refine solutions.
  • Apply AI to accelerate and deepen strategic work (e.g., research, theme identification, concept exploration), while critically evaluating outputs and implications.

Requirements

  • You bring 5 or more years of content strategy experience; agency or consultancy experience preferred
  • You have a bachelor’s degree—preferably related to marketing, communications, or writing/journalism
  • You’re familiar with content strategy, messaging and channel strategy frameworks/best practices, SEO/GEO and audience/market research methods and tools; Semrush, GA4, Yougov knowledge a plus
  • You’re familiar with content design principles and creating content models and templates
  • You’re familiar with content management systems; WordPress and Sitecore knowledge a plus
  • You’re conversant in back-end content management, processes, and publishing workflows
  • You’re familiar with AI’s potential to augment content work; hands-on proficiency in various AI tools a plus
  • Experience in multicultural marketing a plus
  • Don’t check all the boxes? We encourage you to apply anyway. We know smarts grow from a breadth of experiences. Don’t disqualify yourself before you have the chance to be considered. We’d love to meet you.

Preferred

  • Power Skills: Empathy: Internalizes human experiences and perspectives to advocate and drive change
  • Business Insight: Applies business and customer knowledge to advance client goals
  • Clarity: Operates effectively and creates focus and certainty in the face of ambiguity
  • Communication: Delivers effective multi-mode communications with clarity and tact; leads by listening first
  • Collaboration: Partners deeply with others to meet shared objectives
  • Innovation: Generates and cultivates new ways for clients to be successful
  • Motivation: Action-oriented; takes on new opportunities/challenges with energy and enthusiasm
  • Resilience: Persistently works toward and realizes desired outcomes, even under tough circumstances
  • Adaptability: Pivots or refines approaches in real-time to meet shifting demands of different situations
  • Integrity: Has a strong sense of ethical and moral principles and adheres to them consistently

Benefits

  • Our comprehensive benefits program includes Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO Health coverage, as well as a health savings account with employer-funded contributions.
  • We also offer Dental and Vision insurance. All of our full-time employees are eligible for Life/AD&D insurance and Short/Long Term Disability insurance free of cost, with the option to add additional voluntary coverage if desired.
  • One North’s 401(k) plan allows employees to save for retirement through pre- or post-tax contributions along with employer-matched funds for maximized savings potential.
  • Our Transportation Benefits enable employees to also make pre-tax contributions to pay for parking and public transit needs.
  • We know how important unwinding can be for inspiration, innovation and productivity. Our full-time employees earn 4 weeks of paid time off, in addition to company paid holidays. Employees begin to accrue additional time off once they reach their 3-year and 10-year anniversaries with the business.
  • One North also understands how critical it is for parents to bond with their new additions. We provide paid Parental and Primary Caregiver Leave to assist and support employees who experience a new birth, adoption or foster placement of a child.
  • We also offer an Employee Perks Program that offers member-only discounts and corporate rates on everything from pizza and the zoo, to movie tickets, car rentals, and hotels.
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One North

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One North is a digital experience agency that combines curiosity, scale, and agility to shape the future. As part of TEKsystems, a leading provider of business and technology services, we offer boutique solutions to solve complex problems. Our multidisciplinary teams of strategists, designers, and technologists excel in research and discovery, experience strategy, design, experience management, and technology implementation. Whether clients are establishing a vision for an experience or optimizing an existing one, we help businesses understand their audiences, design experiences, maximize technology, and bring their digital ideas to life. The world’s most successful companies rely on us to forge the future through electrifying work that sparks innovation and drives results.

Founded in 2012
Chicago, Illinois, USA
194 employees
61% recommend to a friend
56% CEO approval

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Senior Content Strategist

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