Our full-service agency is looking for a Brand Strategist to join our hard-working, fun-loving team. This role will work closely with our talented creative, account, and media teams to identify key insights that fuel the creation of compelling, emotionally-relevant, and effective user-experiences and marketing programs for our clients.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities of the Brand Strategist

• Facilitate brainstorming and work sessions with internal and external teams
• Simplify complex ideas and communicate them concisely to a variety of audiences
• Provide thought leadership
• Craft insightful, compelling creative briefs and provide clear persuasive briefings to members of the creative team
• Recommend and implement research that will aid in consumer insight gathering and strategic process
• Develop accurate and insightful conclusions from research data and present strategy and direction to clients
• Monitor and interpret cultural and social trends relevant to client’s business
• Employ a variety of research techniques to understand and analyze data and provide insight regarding relevant online conversations and voices in those conversations
• A key contributor to new business development

What We Need/Want from Our Brand Strategist

• Do’ers only – we all roll up our sleeves here
• A person motivated to solve brand and business problems regardless of target, size of challenge, communication objective, or tactic needed to get there
• Adept at storytelling
• Able to simplify and clarify complex concepts
• Excellent analytical skills
• Collaborative approach to problem solving
• Strong leadership skills
• Creative thinker
• Eternally curious and optimistic – We find these are the folks that work best in our environment
• A love of for the thrill of new business
• Unquestioned ability to influence, find, and lead others around a great idea
• Great interpersonal skills
• Superb and persuasive communications skills, both written and verbal
• Love of wine is a plus (it’s relevant to the work, we swear)

Qualifications and Skills that Our Next Brand Strategist Should Possess

• 5+ years of planning experience at a creative agency or on creative brands showing clear and consistent contributions to long term strategic brand vision, the brand idea and creative
• Proven thought leadership on high profile brands
• Proven ability to work with creative teams
• Proven quantitative research experience and qualitative research experience (tracking studies, focus groups, in-depth interviews, ethnographic research – any type of interviewing skills) with an ability to see and adapt insights
• Innate curiosity to want to understand people, culture and the world, overall, and most importantly, a burning desire to dig into what makes them tick
• Passionate about great creative, notable experience creating it, and the ability to talk about it in depth

Think You’re a Good Fit?

Please send your resume and salary requirements to [email protected]