Senior Content Strategist - Contract

Codal • Chicago, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Codal is seeking a hands-on Senior Content Strategist to lead the content dimension of client engagements from discovery onwards. This role involves embedding with project teams during critical early phases to develop a deep understanding of how content works across clients' organizations. The strategist will translate this understanding into models, taxonomies, and governance to ensure project success. This is a practitioner role requiring active participation in workshops, stakeholder interviews, content audits, and the delivery of concrete project artifacts.

Requirements

• 5+ years hands-on content strategy experience, with at least 3 in client-facing agency or consultancy engagements
• Demonstrable track record shipping content models (types, fields, relationships, taxonomies) into production CMS implementations
• Production experience with at least one headless or composable CMS (Sanity, Contentful, Contentstack, or equivalent)
• Experience running discovery workshops and stakeholder interviews with senior client stakeholders (Director level and above)
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical content specifications that engineering teams can implement against
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English
• Comfort operating autonomously in a distributed team across multiple time zones
• Portfolio or case studies evidencing content audits, content models, or governance frameworks

Nice To Haves

• Think in structure: content types, relationships, taxonomies, reuse patterns, and can translate that thinking into artefacts others can use and implement
• Comfortable in front of clients: running workshops, interviewing senior stakeholders, navigating political dynamics, and making people feel heard
• Pragmatic. Knows when to go deep and when "good enough and shipped" is the right call
• Comfortable working autonomously within a distributed team, and knows when to escalate
• Energised by operating at the seam between strategy, design, and engineering

Responsibilities

• Interview stakeholders to map workflows, ownership, authoring experience, and governance
• Facilitate discovery workshops to align on requirements and bring structure to complex content landscapes
• Audit content estates for structure, reuse potential, and quality
• Design channel-agnostic content models (types, fields, relationships, taxonomies) and translate them into CMS implementation requirements
• Map migration paths from legacy systems to new platforms
• Document risks, dependencies, and key decisions
• Recommend governance models for sustainable content operations
• Stay engaged through build as the content-accountable reviewer: answering questions, QAing against the model, and adapting when reality pushes back
• Contribute to content design: UX writing, component patterns, and editorial guidance

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k match - 4%
• Happy hours
• Dinners
• Excursions
• Company events
• Office snacks and drinks
• Bevi water machine
• Recreational group (softball and volleyball leagues)
• Office amenities (gym, food court, Walgreens, rooftop bar, outdoor sports court)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed