Resume template · Updated October 2026
Content strategist resume template
Short answer
Henrietta suits a content strategist: a plain, conventional layout that prints experience right after the summary, so audits, governance and results lead, and skills follow in a quiet grid. The fictional sample runs content strategy for a health system website of about 6,000 pages, with an audit before a CMS migration, a governance model for 80 contributors and plain-language rewrites, after four years editing a college website.
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Why Henrietta suits a content strategist resume
Henrietta is a black-and-grey business layout that prints summary, experience and education before skills. For a content strategist that order puts the systems you built (audits, governance, style guides) and their results ahead of tool names, and the plain page shows the restraint you would bring to someone else's website.
Second choice: Leslie. Leslie keeps experience ahead of skills and adds one blue accent; choose it for agency or brand roles where a little more presence helps.
What goes in each section, in Henrietta's order
Henrietta prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.
- Professional Summary. The type of content you shape (websites, product, marketing, internal), its scale (pages, products, contributors) and the systems you put in place: audits, governance, taxonomy, style guides. One result with a number closes it.
- Work Experience. Audits run and what was cut or merged, governance and workflow you designed, migrations led, standards set, and measured effects: search traffic, task completion, calls or emails avoided, publishing time.
- Education. Degree, field and year. English, journalism, communications and library science are common; a certificate in content strategy or information architecture can share the line.
- Skills. The grid has no labels: strategy methods first (audits, governance, IA, plain language, SEO), then the CMS and analytics tools, then collaboration strengths.
The sample resume as text
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Maya Hollander
Content Strategist, Healthcare Websites
Pittsburgh, PA | maya.hollander@example.com | (412) 555-0119 | portfolio.example.com/maya-hollander | linkedin.com/in/sample-maya-hollander
Content strategist with nine years in web content, now leading strategy for a health system website of about 6,000 pages across 12 hospitals and 150 clinics. Ran the audit and governance model behind a CMS migration and set a plain-language standard for patient pages. Organic visits to service pages rose 35% in the year after relaunch.
Experience
Content Strategist, Three Rivers Health, Pittsburgh, PA (08/2020 to Present)
- Lead content strategy for a health system website of about 6,000 pages covering 12 hospitals and 150 clinics.
- Ran a content audit that removed or merged about 2,400 outdated pages before the move to a new CMS.
- Designed the governance model: page owners, review dates and a publishing workflow for 80 contributors.
- Set a plain-language standard and style guide and rewrote the 100 most-visited service pages with clinicians.
- Organic visits to service pages rose 35% and online appointment requests 18% in the year after relaunch.
Web Content Editor, Monongahela Valley College, Pittsburgh, PA (06/2016 to 07/2020)
- Edited and published about 300 pages a year in Drupal for academic departments.
- Led the rewrite of 60 program pages with the admissions team.
- Trained about 40 departmental web editors.
Education
BA, English and Professional Writing, Allegheny Ridge University (05/2016)
Skills
Content audits, Content governance, Information architecture, Plain language, SEO, Editorial planning, Sitecore, Drupal, Google Analytics 4, Siteimprove, Screaming Frog, Working with clinicians and legal reviewers, Training contributors
How to make the sample yours
Say which content strategy you do
Website and enterprise content strategy, product content strategy and marketing content strategy are different jobs. Name yours in the headline and match the first bullets to the posting.
Show the system, not just the words
Governance models, workflows, templates and taxonomies keep working after you leave. Hiring managers look for them.
Measure what users could do
Search traffic is one measure; tasks completed, fewer calls to a contact centre or faster publishing are often stronger.
Name the CMS and the migration
Sitecore, Drupal, WordPress, Contentful: say which you planned content for and how many pages moved.
Moving from writing or editing
Lead with any audit, style guide or editorial process you set up, then the writing. Strategy roles hire for the decisions.
Keywords to keep where they are true
Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.
- content strategy
- content audit
- content governance
- information architecture
- taxonomy
- plain language
- editorial standards
- style guide
- SEO
- CMS migration
- content operations
- analytics
- stakeholder management
- user research
Mistakes to avoid
- A writing portfolio with no strategy decision in it.
- Page views as the only result.
- Calling yourself a content strategist for a job that was publishing others' copy; describe it honestly and show the strategy work you did.
- Listing every CMS you have logged into.
How the sample PDF reads in text extractors
We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.
| Extractor | Name, email, phone | Headings | Bullets intact |
|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between a content strategist and a content marketer?
A content marketer creates and promotes content to win customers; a content strategist decides what content should exist, how it is structured and governed, and how it is measured. Many marketing jobs blend the two, so say which part you lead.
Should a content strategist include a portfolio?
Yes, with two or three case studies: the audit, the governance or structure you designed and the result. Writing samples alone do not show strategy.
How do I show results from a content audit?
Pages reviewed, removed or merged, the time saved for editors and what improved for users afterwards, such as search visits, task success or fewer support contacts.
Do content strategists need SEO skills?
Most web roles expect working SEO knowledge: search intent, structure and measurement. Name what you did with it rather than listing tools.
How long should a content strategist resume be?
One page for most, two if you have led several large programs. Case studies belong in the portfolio.
Will applicant tracking systems read this Henrietta PDF?
The sample PDF read back with its contact details, all 4 section headings and all 8 bullets intact in three open-source text extractors (pdf.js, pdftotext and pypdf). Commercial systems such as Workday, Greenhouse or Taleo were not tested, and each employer configures its own.
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