Principal, Consumer Brand Strategy

Austin, TX (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Brand leadership role focused on evolving strategy, cross-functional integration, and high-impact campaigns. The position emphasizes using research to inform decisions, guiding agency partnerships, and delivering integrated campaigns across channels. Benefits include comprehensive medical coverage, holidays, 401(k) with match, tuition assistance, and more.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and Evolve Consumer Brand Strategy
  • Steward and advance brand positioning, messaging frameworks, and audience segmentation that serve as decision-making criteria across marketing, product, and creative teams
  • Translate business objectives into brand strategy that grows share, preference, and trust—with measurable impact on audience engagement, brand health, and commercial goals.
  • Relentlessly hunt for competitive whitespace and challenger angles
  • Lead Strategic Integration Across Functions
  • Partner with research teams to translate audience insights into actionable brand strategy and managing a testing strategy that keeps a finger on the pulse of sentiment in an actively changing category
  • Develop clear, focused creative briefs with the Consumer Brand Director that leverage relevant insights and messaging to drive impactful campaigns.
  • Collaborate with Creative Directors to ensure brand strategy inspires breakthrough work that drives business results
  • Work with product marketing and design teams to create unified ecosystems across brand and product experiences
  • Champion Strategy Through Complex Organization

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience with 15+ years of brand strategy expertise, with a mix of agency and in-house experience across consumer-facing businesses
  • Proven track record developing brand positioning, messaging architecture, and audience segmentation frameworks that drive measurable business outcomes
  • Experience leading brand through growth, transformation, or repositioning in competitive, fast-moving categories
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across complex organizations, including C-level stakeholders
  • Experience managing strategic agency relationships and overseeing campaign development from brief through launch
  • Track record of building collaborative, cross-functional teams that solve complex challenges
  • Portfolio demonstrating strategy that inspired award-winning creative work and drove business results
  • Experience developing integrated campaigns across multiple channels and touchpoints
  • Understanding of how to balance long-term brand building with near-term performance marketing needs
  • Champion for strategy who uses research and frameworks as tools for alignment

Benefits

  • Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
  • Family forming benefits
  • 13 Paid Holidays
  • Flexible Time Off
  • 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
  • Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
  • Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
  • 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
  • Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
  • Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
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