Digital Marketing, Content Strategist & Writer

A role written with Philosophy majors in mind

Highland Park, Illinois | Full-Time | On Site Only

About Scholarships.com

Since 1999, Scholarships.com has helped more than 26 million students find money for college. We operate one of the internet’s largest scholarship search platforms, using content, data, and technology to make scholarship search more understandable, useful, and efficient for students and families.

Role Overview — Why It Matters

Philosophy majors: if you are the person who asks whether an argument holds up, whether language is precise, and whether a process is fair before moving forward, this role may fit you unusually well.

As a Digital Marketing, Content Strategist & Writer, you will help plan and execute targeted campaigns, create clear student-facing content, review scholarship information, and turn campaign results into practical next steps. Your judgment will help us communicate clearly, make sound decisions from data, and keep our work transparent and student-centered.

We value actual intelligence first: your reasoning, writing, judgment, and ability to recognize what a number, claim, or recommendation does—and does not—show. You may use AI tools to organize information, explore early content options, support reporting, or check grammar and clarity. But you will be responsible for independently evaluating outputs, verifying facts, and deciding what is accurate, fair, useful, and ready to publish.

What You’ll Do

• Develop, update, and edit website pages, targeted email campaigns, and selected social content for students, parents, educators, and scholarship providers.
• Organize complex scholarship information into content that is clear, logically structured, accurate, and easy for students to act on.
• Adapt message, tone, and structure to each audience and apply basic SEO practices—clear headings, focused keywords, and useful page structure—to improve discoverability.
• Help plan and execute email, digital, and postal campaigns from brief to deployment: write and review content, check layouts, complete QA, and manage send schedules.
• Review scholarship submissions and listings for clarity, completeness, eligibility requirements, deadlines, award amounts, and transparent descriptions.
• Monitor campaign measures such as opens, clicks, and conversions; distinguish signal from noise and offer practical, data-informed recommendations.
• Use technology, including email platforms, spreadsheets, dashboards, CMS tools, and AI tools, to work efficiently; independently verify facts and apply human editorial judgment before content, data, or recommendations are published or implemented.
• Maintain organized campaign, client, vendor, purchase order, insertion order, and billing records; identify and document improved workflows.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university; Philosophy majors are especially encouraged to apply.
• Relevant experience through employment, internships, campus organizations, research, publications, or comparable work is preferred. Exceptional recent graduates are encouraged to apply.
• Strong critical thinking, argumentation, and reasoning skills; you notice unstated assumptions, unclear logic, and language that could mislead.
• Excellent writing, editing, proofreading, and communication skills; you can make complicated information precise, direct, and readable.
• Demonstrated ethics and judgment, including the ability to weigh consequences and make responsible decisions with incomplete information.
• Attention to detail and a practical project-management approach to balancing multiple deadlines.
• Comfort learning digital tools, including email platforms, spreadsheets, CMS tools, dashboards, basic marketing analytics, and AI tools used as a support—not a replacement for your own work.

What You’ll Gain

• Hands-on experience applying clarity, reasoning, ethics, and judgment to real-world marketing and content decisions.
• Practical skills in digital marketing, content strategy, SEO, targeted email campaigns, campaign QA, performance reporting, and scholarship-data curation.
• Experience using technology responsibly: identifying what can be streamlined, what needs additional evidence, and what must receive human review.
• Direct exposure to leadership and collaboration with marketing, operations, and product/engineering colleagues, with room to grow.

Logistics and How to Apply

This is a full-time, in-office position at Scholarships.com, 513 Central Avenue, Suite 300, Highland Park, Illinois 60035. This role is not remote and not hybrid.

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Central Time, with a one-hour lunch break.

Salary range: $42,000–$62,000, aligned with experience.

Benefits include Blue Cross / Blue Shield PPO health insurance, a 401(k), 15 paid days off annually for vacation, personal, family, or health needs, plus 7 paid holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and Christmas Day. We encourage employees to plan and take meaningful time away from work to rest and recharge.

To apply, submit:

• A resume.
• A brief cover letter explaining how your Philosophy background prepares you for this role.
• A short analysis exercise: Write one prompt you would give an AI tool to review a hypothetical email campaign’s results, identify what additional information it would need, and recommend what should be tested next. Then, in 2–3 sentences, explain what you would independently verify before relying on the AI’s response.