Freelance Content Strategist - Hospitality Quotient

About this role

*Hospitality Quotient, powered by Union Square Hospitality Group, is an advisory, training, and thought-leadership platform built on the principles of Enlightened Hospitality. We partner with organizations across industries to help leaders build stronger cultures, elevate performance, and create meaningful human experiences at scale.*

*HQ brings together the operating wisdom of USHG, the philosophy of Danny Meyer, and a growing community of senior practitioners to deliver workshops, advisory engagements, speaking, and emerging digital products. As we grow our enterprise partnerships, our ambition is to establish Hospitality Quotient as a premium, people-first leadership brand, one that organizations turn to as a long-term strategic partner, not only for training, but for shaping culture and leadership at scale.*

Contract / Retainer: 12 - 15 hours per week

Location: NYC / Hybrid; in-office and on-site for key events as needed

Compensation: $2500 per month

Who you are:

The Freelance Content Strategist will help shape HQ’s voice, narrative, and publishing cadence. This role will translate our philosophy and real-world work into high-quality thought leadership, storytelling, and editorial content, with a focus on building and growing HQ’s external presence across the website, LinkedIn, and other marketing channels.

This role will work in close partnership with the HQ Brand Lead and Marketing leadership to ensure editorial voice, visual expression, and go-to-market messaging are tightly aligned. The expected hours for this role is approximately 12-15 hours per week.

What you'll do:

• Define and steward HQ’s editorial voice across key channels, including the website, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and newsletter. Develop a strategic content roadmap and publishing calendar for these channels, working in partnership with the HQ Brand Manager and Design team.
• Plan and maintain a publishing calendar of thought-leadership essays and in...