Freelance Associate Director, Content Strategist

Overview

Freelance Associate Director, Content Strategist at Saatchi & Saatchi X. Saatchi X partners with clients to create dynamic solutions rooted in shopper know?how, delivering results by fearlessly collaborating across strategy, creative, and execution.

Job Description : The Associate Director, Content Strategist is a strategic enabler and creative thinker who thrives at the intersection of storytelling, business intelligence, and content planning. This role turns business objectives into insight?driven content strategies, evergreen tools, and scalable frameworks that empower creative teams and stakeholders to deliver with clarity and impact. Youll work with communicators, designers, and channel experts to enable great storytelling at scale through content architectures, brief development, and channel planning. If youre a strategic systems?thinker who loves building creative infrastructure as much as building narratives, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

Strategic Enablement & Framework Development : Create evergreen strategic tools and frameworks that guide and scale storytelling across channels and teams, and develop content architectures aligned with reputational pillars and communications goals.

Insights & Planning : Surface and share cultural, competitor, platform, and audience insights to inform creative direction and editorial decisions; analyze critical calendar moments and emerging trends to help teams plan and activate.

Creative Strategy & Brief Development : Lead the development of strategic briefs rooted in insights and guided by clear guardrails that connect brand narratives, cultural relevance, and business goals.

Multi-Channel Content Strategy : Collaborate with creative, channel, and technology teams to orchestrate integrated storytelling across touchpoints with consistency and intentionality.

Generative Strategy : Use approved enterprise AI tools to move from project intake to creative briefing more quickly and effectively.

Youll Need To Be Great At

Youre a creative strategist who sees both the big picture and the supporting systems.

You can translate creative thinking into structured tools that accelerate team performance and strategic operation.

You bring a student?of?culture mindset, continually learning from new platforms, audiences, and media behaviors.

You have deep experience crafting briefs, guiding ideation, and building trust across disciplines.

Youre proactive, organized, and thrive in complexityturning ambiguity into structure.

Youve worked in or alongside agency teams and understand how to move work from concept to execution in fast?paced environments.

Role Details

Seniority level : Associate

Employment type : Temporary (Freelance)

Job function : Advertising

Industry : Advertising Services

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