Senior Associate, Brand Content

Job Description:

Who Are We?

The Carat Content team invented itself to help brands reach and deepen their connections with consumers in a world where people converge the points of connection, engagement and transaction around content. With a specialty in combining storytelling with media science and research, our goal is to provide meaningful and branded content solutions that deepen

consumer identification and brand loyalty.

Carat Content is looking for a Senior Associate to support the IKEA content business, helping promote strategy, discovery, content development, and measurement across branded content projects. You will report to the Associate Director, Content.

What You Will Do

• You will manage content-led ideas, media partnerships, influencer programs, and brand integrations.
• You will collaborate with clients, our teams, and entertainment partners.
• You will manage RFPs, guiding production and creative reviews, ensuring process consistency, overseeing timelines, and staying ahead of cultural and technology trends.
• You will deliver clear written and verbal updates to partners, including status reports and meeting summaries.

Qualifications:

• You have 1–3 years of professional experience in branded content, advertising, or a related field.
• You have experience facilitating cross-functional meetings to align priorities and resolve issues, and applying structured methods to overcome project challenges.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent projects with defined deliverables. Maintain accurate project documentation and status report, coordinate with partners across departments, and negotiate timelines or resources to meet goals.
• You must be willing to travel.

Additional Information

At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we're connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.

The annual salary range for this position is $51,000 - $83,375 annually. We base placement within the salary range on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits available with this position include:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
• Life insurance,
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
• 401k,
• Flexible paid time off,
• At least 15 paid holidays per year,
• Paid sick and safe leave, and
• Paid parental leave.

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including providing time off according to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, following its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.

To begin the application process, please click on the "Apply" button at the top of this job posting. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and we will contact qualified candidates for next steps.

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