Storyteller FR

The opportunity

Our client is strengthening the role of content within its marketing and communications work for business customers. As a French-language storyteller, you’ll turn briefs into clear, engaging content across channels, improve its discoverability and work with a multidisciplinary team. Your work will support the needs of an early-stage business customer segment.

Banking serves customers through a mix of digital and human channels, and clear communication remains important across both. As customers seek information online, content needs to be accessible, useful and easy to find. This assignment brings together storytelling, search optimisation and digital communication in a financial-services context.

What you'll do

• Turn briefs into valuable content aligned with the segment’s content pillars, business objectives and tone of voice.

• Write and optimise content for channels including articles, email, social media, video, scripts and digital experiences.

• Optimise content for SEO and GEO, using Surfer SEO and relevant guidance to improve discoverability and authority.

• Use AI tools to support research, drafting, optimisation and adaptation across channels while maintaining quality and compliance.

• Adapt Dutch-language texts into French, collaborate on audiovisual formats and recommend improvements based on content performance.

What you bring

• At least six years’ experience as a storyteller, with a journalistic background and experience creating thought leadership or accessible technical content.

• Experience optimising content for SEO and using AI tools for research, writing, optimisation and translation.

• Expert French writing skills, with very good Dutch and good English for adapting texts and working with source material.

• A degree in communications, journalism, marketing, languages or literature, or equivalent experience.

• The ability to write clear, engaging content across formats and channels.

• Useful, but not essential: GEO optimisation, B2B writing, knowledge of entrepreneurs, banking or financial services, and understanding of marketing funnels, customer journeys and performance metrics.

The assignment terms

• This is an independent contractor collaboration through Ariad, working with our client; it is not employment with Ariad or the client.

• The initial assignment is for six months. Any extension would be conditional on project needs and mutual agreement.

• The workload is 60%.

• The target start date is 8 September 2026.

• Location and on-site attendance requirements: [N/A].

• Please include examples of your writing with your application, such as a social media post, an article and an email.

Why Ariad?

Ariad is a digital consultancy and staffing partner helping leading organisations build the teams and capabilities they need today and for what comes next. We work with brands such as Samsung, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING, AXA, Luminus and Orange, across banking, insurance, utilities, retail and beyond. Our expertise spans digital products and customer experience, marketing and e-commerce, CRM and customer data, and the technology that supports digital transformation.

For you, that means a partner who understands your field and looks beyond your job title to see how your expertise, experience and ambitions fit the teams we help build.

Your next assignment should make good use of your expertise. We share client context and clarify expectations so you can decide whether the project fits what you want next. You remain independent while joining a community of more than 150 consultants, with personalised follow-up, quarterly events and meetups giving you people to exchange ideas with and turn to throughout your assignment.

How to apply

Interested? Apply with your CV so we can talk about your expertise, your ambitions and joining Ariad.