Our client, a leading smart home technology company, is seeking a Lead Content Strategist to join their Brand and Digital Design team. This is a contract to hire opportunity (full-time hours) available in New York, NY. In this role, you will serve as the connective tissue between customer insight, content strategy, creative execution, and content architecture — ensuring customers encounter clear, accurate, and compelling information at every stage of their journey.

• This contract to hire role is hybrid in office (Long Island City) 3 days per week. Pay rate: $60-80/hour.

Responsibilities

Content Experience Strategy

• Research and analyze what prospective and existing customers need to understand, decide, or accomplish at each point in their relationship with the brand
• Audit existing content to surface gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for improvement
• Recommend the right mix of messages, stories, comparisons, and tools to help customers make confident decisions
• Develop content strategies for key customer journeys, product launches, campaigns, and digital experiences
• Define the purpose, audience, intended message, format, placement, and success criteria for proposed content
• Use research, search behavior, analytics, customer feedback, and business priorities to guide content planning

Creative Brief Development

• Write clear, actionable briefs that equip writers, designers, video teams, and other creative partners to produce the right content
• Provide creative teams with the customer context, strategic rationale, required messaging, supporting evidence, and success measures they need to do their best work
• Collaborate closely with creative teams throughout the development process, offering guidance without over-prescribing solutions
• Review concepts and finished work for alignment with customer needs, content strategy, brand standards, and experience goals
• Support teams in adapting content across formats and moments while preserving its core meaning

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Content Modeling

• Translate customer and business requirements into structured content models within Adobe Experience Manager
• Define and maintain AEM Content Fragment models covering products, packages, offers, services, pricing, claims, and other shared information
• Develop taxonomies, metadata schemas, relationships, and information architecture to support content reuse and discoverability across experiences
• Partner with AEM architects, engineers, authors, and designers to ensure content structures serve both end users and content teams
• Establish consistent naming conventions and terminology standards across all customer-facing touchpoints
• Build governance frameworks for regulated or sensitive information such as pricing, claims, and disclosures
• Design content structures that support bilingual (English and Spanish), accessible, and future-ready localized experiences
• Optimize content for search and AI retrieval systems

Cross-Functional Facilitation

• Lead working sessions that bring together customer needs, business requirements, and diverse stakeholder perspectives to reach clear decisions
• Partner across research, design, creative, brand, marketing, legal, product, and engineering throughout the content lifecycle
• Define quality standards and evaluation criteria for content usefulness, consistency, findability, and customer comprehension
• Document and share what is working to continuously improve content decision-making

Required Qualifications

• 10 or more years of experience in content strategy, content design, information architecture, editorial strategy, or a closely related field
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager in a complex digital environment
• Proven expertise designing and implementing AEM Content Fragment models, including fields, relationships, metadata, taxonomy, validation, and governance
• Deep understanding of how structured content moves through AEM and is consumed by authors, components, APIs, and customer-facing experiences
• Experience working directly alongside AEM architects and engineers during implementation — not solely in a strategy or requirements capacity
• Track record of developing content strategies and recommendations for complex customer journeys or large-scale digital ecosystems
• Demonstrated ability to translate customer insight, research, and business goals into focused, actionable creative briefs
• Experience collaborating with writers, designers, brand teams, video teams, and agencies
• Strong editorial judgment and the ability to assess whether content is clear, useful, persuasive, and appropriate for its audience
• Experience leading structural content work for a large digital ecosystem, CMS transformation, or AEM replatforming initiative
• Expertise in content modeling, taxonomy, metadata, information architecture, and structured content
• Proven ability to create reusable content across multiple experiences, channels, or brands
• Skilled facilitator with experience helping senior stakeholders resolve ambiguity and establish shared standards
• Experience governing regulated, substantiated, or otherwise sensitive customer-facing information
• Understanding of search, semantic structure, accessibility, and how AI systems retrieve and represent content
• Portfolio or case studies demonstrating how you identified a content need, shaped the strategy, guided its creation, and implemented the supporting content structure

 

The Solomon Page Distinction

Solomon Page offers a comprehensive benefits program for hourly, temporary, and contract employees. We pride ourselves on offering medical, dental, 401(k), are offered where eligible, and commuter benefits to our employees, including freelancers — which sets us apart in the industries we serve.

About Solomon Page

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