Contract Brand Strategist Lead

USA (Remote)

$4K/mo – $5K/moSenior Level8+ years expContract

Posted 6 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end brand strategy engagements and guide cross-functional teams from discovery to execution.

  • Lead workshops and align stakeholders
  • Translate data into actionable recommendations and craft compelling narratives
  • Partner with research and creative to shape campaigns and maintain client alignment

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead brand strategy engagements, including positioning, messaging, and brand identity development.
  • Facilitate client workshops, discovery sessions, and project kickoffs that uncover meaningful insights.
  • Turn audience, competitor, market, and performance data into actionable recommendations.
  • Become an expert on each client's business, customers, and category.
  • Partner with Creative, Account, and New Business teams to shape campaigns from concept through execution.
  • Build strategy presentations and confidently lead client conversations.
  • Support Organic Growth by identifying opportunities and presenting strategic recommendations.
  • Help tell the story behind the work by crafting compelling rationale for creative presentations.
  • Partner with our research team to continuously explore trends, emerging platforms, and cultural shifts to keep our clients ahead of what's next, and to dig deeper into key insights to identify white space opportunities and create compelling brand narratives
  • Prepare research briefs for the research team, identifying key strategic questions and hypotheses for each project.

Requirements

  • 8-10 years of experience in brand strategy, creative strategy, or a similar agency role.
  • Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.
  • The ability to simplify complex ideas into clear, compelling stories.
  • Confidence leading clients through strategic conversations with curiosity and credibility.
  • Experience writing creative briefs and guiding multidisciplinary creative teams.
  • Strong understanding of brand strategy, messaging, consumer insights, and creative development.
  • Familiarity with Meta, Google Analytics, content strategy, and performance marketing.
  • Experience with ClickUp, Google Workspace, Dropbox, or similar collaboration tools.
  • Highly organized, adaptable, and energized by solving new challenges.
  • Agency experience is strongly preferred.

Benefits

  • Equipment provided by Raindrop
  • Accrued sick leave
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We create Marketing People Love that earns attention, builds brands and drives results. Our well-rounded team is here to supercharge your brand and bring to life your creative across all channels where your customers spend their time.We are honored to work alongside the best marketers, business leaders and founders in the world. Our recent work has brought accolades such as the #1 YouTube ad (per Think With Google) in 2020, the top performing Super Bowl ad of 2021, 2 Emmys, 1 Billion Scalable Views and more. And we're just getting started!At our core, we are a people-first company which means we prioritize human connection, relationships and building an environment where Raindroppers, clients and partners are able to grow, enjoy what they do and be a part of something special. We thrive on holistic creative partnerships with Brands that believe in the power of creating Marketing People Love. Let us be your creative engine across all channels - Video, Social, Email, Web, Photo, Design and more. We got you. And we look forward to connecting. Visit us at raindrop.agency to learn more and see some of our recent work.

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