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Senior Content Strategist - Freelance at AKQA

Senior Content Strategist - Freelance

AKQA · NY, US

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Senior Content Strategist - Freelance

AKQA · NY, US

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About the Role

AKQA is seeking a Freelance Senior Content Strategist to support end-to-end content experience strategy for a flagship digital platform and connected product ecosystem in financial services. This role involves auditing current experiences, identifying gaps, defining a vision, and developing a roadmap. The Strategist will collaborate with clients and internal teams to deliver content frameworks and systems.

Responsibilities

  • Audit current experiences, identify gaps and opportunities
  • Define an ideal-state vision for content
  • Develop a pragmatic roadmap to achieve the content vision
  • Formulate and deliver content frameworks, recommendations, and systems
  • Work closely with senior client stakeholders and an integrated AKQA team
  • Drive content for high-traffic digital surfaces, including information architecture, navigation, personalization, SEO, accessibility, experimentation, and content operations

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in content strategy for digital products, apps, and web platforms
  • Portfolio demonstrating 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
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze user, client, and business needs and develop relevant content strategies, frameworks, and taxonomies
  • Comfort consuming large quantities of research and data to inform perspectives, set KPIs, and partner on measurement
  • 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
  • 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

Skills

  • Content strategy
  • Digital products
  • Apps
  • Web platforms
  • Structured thinking
  • Measurable outcomes
  • Writing
  • Editing
  • Voice and tone definition
  • Messaging hierarchies
  • Editorial guidelines
  • User analysis
  • Client analysis
  • Business needs analysis
  • Content frameworks
  • Taxonomies
  • Research and data analysis
  • KPI setting
  • Measurement
  • Information architecture
  • Navigation
  • Personalization
  • SEO
  • Accessibility
  • Experimentation
  • Content operations
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Presentation skills
  • Agile delivery
  • Content governance
  • Operational frameworks

Location

  • Remote (US Based)

Work Type

  • Freelance
  • 40 hours/week
  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • Senior
  • 8+ years

Salary/Compensations

  • 3,000 to 3,400 USD per week

About the Company

  • At AKQA (part of WPP) we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services.
  • With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.
  • WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
  • We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
  • For more information, visit WPP.com.

Equal Opportunity

  • AKQA is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to particular characteristics.
  • We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.