Senior Consultant – CMS Evaluator & Digital Strategist

Contract length: 2 months (possibility of extension) • Hourly rate: $75–100 • Location: Remote, US (Canada also considered)

About the company

Our client is a full-service, deeply digital advertising agency based in the North Mid-West, established over 30 years ago. It specializes in creating transformative branding and marketing solutions, including application development and marketing services, with a belief that courage and kindness have a place in business. They focus on driving uncommon success for clients in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the current content management systems in place for two enterprise client accounts, run concurrently over a two-month engagement
• Determine, for each client, whether the existing platform should be retained on a newer version, upgraded, or replaced with a different CMS entirely
• Lead a structured requirements-gathering process with each client, covering functional, technical, and business needs such as content workflows, integrations, and scalability
• Research and compare CMS platform options against those requirements, including total cost of ownership and vendor support
• Build a clear, defensible, platform-agnostic recommendation for each client, backed by the requirements gathered
• Present findings and recommendations directly to client stakeholders, translating technical detail into business terms
• Partner with the agency’s internal digital strategy and technology team to align each recommendation with the client’s broader roadmap
• Outline a rough timeline, risks, and migration considerations to support each client’s planning and budgeting process

Requirements

• Proven experience evaluating and recommending enterprise CMS platforms (for example Sitecore, Kentico, Adobe Experience Manager, Optimizely, Drupal, or similar)
• Strong grounding in digital strategy and content management best practices, with an understanding of content workflows, taxonomies, and governance
• Experience translating client business and technical requirements into a clear, vendor-neutral platform recommendation
• Confident presenting findings and recommendations directly to client stakeholders, and comfortable fielding follow-up questions in the room
• Comfortable working independently across two concurrent client engagements and managing priorities between them
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document a recommendation clearly for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Based in, and able to work remotely from, the United States or Canada
• Available to start in September 2026
• No employer sponsorship available for this role