Senior Technical Content Strategist (Freelance)

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Content Strategist to support large-scale digital ecosystem work. This role focuses on the structure, organization, and governance of content across multiple properties. You’ll partner closely with UX, IA, Product, and Engineering to ensure content is modeled, labeled, and organized in ways that make sense for both users and the business.

What You’ll Do

• Translate business goals and user needs into clear content structures and frameworks.
• Build and refine content schemas and data models that inform how content is created, stored, and surfaced.
• Develop taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, labeling systems, metadata standards, and tagging approaches.
• Create sitemaps, navigation models, and page-level content frameworks for multi-site ecosystems.
• Conduct content audits and inventories to assess the current state and identify pathways toward consolidation or replatforming.
• Collaborate with UX/IA to align content structure with interaction patterns and user journeys.
• Partner with copywriters, designers, and developers to ensure strategy is consistently applied through delivery.
• Work with client stakeholders to clarify terminology, governance rules, and content decision-making processes.

What We’re Looking For

• Senior-level experience in content strategy, information architecture, or content design for complex digital environments.
• Strong understanding of:
  
  
• Content modeling
• Schema and taxonomy design
• Navigation and labeling systems
• Enterprise CMS or DAM environments
  
  
• Comfortable analyzing large, sometimes messy, content ecosystems and making them understandable.
• Able to explain complex concepts in clear, plain language.
• Collaborative working style - this role works across UX, Design, Product, Creative Strategy, and Engineering.
• Experience working in cross-agency or multi-stakeholder environments is a plus.

About You

• You think structurally and ask clarifying questions early.
• You enjoy organizing complexity and making information intuitive.
• You communicate in a way that brings clarity and alignment across teams.
• You can balance rigor with flexibility - knowing when to set a framework and when to let the work evolve.
  
  

Engagement Details

Timeline: Initial 6-month engagement with potential for extension or ongoing advisory role

Level of Effort: Approximately 20-30 hours per week during active phases

The target range of base compensation for this role is $70-$100/ an hour. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

About Mediacurrent

Mediacurrent is an open-source development and digital marketing agency that creates transformative digital experience platforms for enterprise, government, non-profit, and higher education organizations and their customers.

Since 2007, we have built a growing, sustainable company that believes in collaboration, education, and providing predictable results for our clients. Organizations such as The Weather Channel, PwC, New York Senate, Georgia Tech, Olympus, Habitat for Humanity, and Guardian Insurance have trusted Mediacurrent to solve their most complex digital and web challenges.

Our Values

At Mediacurrent, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace by welcoming team members from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Our values as a team are to promote positive impact, empathy, and inclusivity while fostering leadership and personal growth through dignity and respect. We love having fun while we work and always make an effort to give back to our communities. Our team spans across 30+ states.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Mediacurrent is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.