Senior Content Strategist – Contract

🕒 April 29

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $65 - $80 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

👨🏼‍💻 Content Manager

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Codal

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201 - 500 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 Series D on 2012-03

eCommerce • SaaS • B2B

Codal is a forward-thinking technology company that specializes in developing innovative, data-driven solutions for a wide range of industries. They collaborate with world-class brands to design user-friendly, compliant eCommerce platforms and modernize tools in finance and vehicle maintenance management. Their expertise spans eCommerce, experience design, AI, data, and cloud architecture, and they are a renowned BigCommerce Agency Partner. Codal's team of designers, developers, and engineers work closely with clients to build scalable and optimized products that drive growth.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Life, Dental/Vision, and many more insurance types • Employer 401k match - 4% • Office snacks and drinks + a fancy Bevi water machine with flavored water • A recreational group that regularly competes in city leagues for softball and volleyball • An office in the heart of downtown Chicago with a gym, food court, Walgreens, rooftop bar, outdoor sports court, and other amenities • Working hybrid for in-person collaboration and sprint-planning days • We regularly host happy hours, dinners, excursions, and other company events to unwind after a hard day at work