Freelance, Content Strategist – AI Readiness

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Conduct stakeholder interviews and analyze existing research, archetypes, and customer data to identify strategic priorities and content gaps.

• Evaluate the current navigation, taxonomy, and content types, and lead card sorting sessions and workshops to verify content decisions based on real customer language.

• Create a future-state navigation architecture, customer-focused taxonomy, and semantic model that connects products, categories, and use cases.

• Establish a structured data and schema strategy that enhances content discoverability across search engines, AI assistants, and large language models (LLMs).

• Evaluate content for AI-readiness, identifying where structure, metadata, or formatting may hinder AI systems in retrieving, summarizing, or citing it.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product Design, Engineering, and Research to provide aligned and scalable content structures.

• Develop content governance frameworks with defined ownership, decision-making rules, and standards for ongoing content modernization.

• Create authoring guidelines and content models that promote human readability and AI-readiness.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in content strategy, information architecture, or a related field, at a principal level.

• Demonstrated success in designing taxonomy and content models for large, complex content ecosystems.

• Background in structured data, schema markup, and content optimization for AI-driven discovery.

• Familiarity with how LLMs and other AI systems retrieve, interpret, and present content.

• Experience in leading enterprise-level change management and aligning cross-functional stakeholders.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex content and AI-readiness concepts to non-expert stakeholders.

• Familiarity with CMS systems is beneficial; deep technical skills are not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• 401(k) matching

• Flexible work hours

• Paid time off

• Remote work options