Senior Brand Strategist

Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)

$70K/yr – $90K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive senior strategic leadership across multiple client brands by turning complex data into actionable narratives, guiding research, cross-functional collaboration, and culturally informed growth opportunities while balancing creative work with AI-enabled tooling to accelerate strategy and maintain human judgment.

  • Ownership: translate business goals into strategies across brand, social, digital, and GTM efforts.
  • Analytics & AI: convert datasets into narratives using AI-enabled analysis with human oversight.
  • Collaboration & Trends: align creative, media, data, and client teams while monitoring cultural and tech trends for growth opportunities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Make an impact that leads to great work as the senior strategist on multiple client businesses.
  • Connect client objectives with audience needs by crafting actionable insights, compelling narratives, and a strategic POV grounded in cultural signals and business implications.
  • Turn large, messy datasets into actionable narratives by combining human judgment with AI-enabled analysis.
  • Design mixed-method research approaches (qualitative, quantitative, behavioral, platform data) for client and new business needs.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify problems and inform brand strategies and go-to-market strategies across social, digital, content and brand experience.
  • Translate business objectives into actionable strategies that inspire creative solutions, and synthesize complexity into clear, inspiring strategy that teams can act on.
  • Facilitate productive dialogue between creative, media, data, and client teams; drive alignment across stakeholders with proactive, transparent communication.
  • Stay informed about cultural trends, consumer behavior, emerging technologies, social media, creator culture, and influencers to identify innovative opportunities for strategic growth.
  • Ground strategies in solid business understanding and effectiveness goals.
  • Support agency growth goals in digital innovation, sustainability, and diversity, equity and inclusion by representing these viewpoints in strategy development.
  • Help teams use AI tools effectively without replacing strategic judgment and contribute to team morale.
  • Build repeatable AI-enabled workflows that increase speed andoptiongeneration, whileidentifyingwhere human judgment must override automation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience.
  • 4+ years of strategic planning or a strategically driven role required.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, research and synthesis platforms) in day-to-day strategic work.
  • Ability to travel as needed.

Preferred

  • A positive, proactive, make-it-happen attitude.
  • Passion for brilliant work, great strategy, and a constant drive to make things better.
  • Curiosity about what makes a brand meaningful, what is driving and influencing culture, and why people do what they do.
  • Experience developing both B2C and B2B brand platforms and go-to-market strategies.
  • Strong understanding of cultural and technological trends and their impact on brand strategy.
  • Highly organized anddetail oriented.

Benefits

  • In addition to the base salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health and wellness options, agency perks, and the flexibility of a hybrid work environment.
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Colle McVoy

Hi. We’re Colle McVoy. A full-service creative agency that builds enduring relationships between forward-thinking brands and people.We believe we’re in the next great era of brand building. Where change is constant, the potential for brands is limitless and the canvas for creativity is boundless.We call it the Great Wide OpenTM.And in this era where everything seems to be in a constant state of upheaval, relationships matter more than ever. And the brands that endure, grow and rise to the top are built on the shoulders of great relationships – between consumers and brands, and between brands and employees through values and purpose.At Colle McVoy, we immerse ourselves in our clients’ businesses to build relationships that last 3x the industry average. And we have an award-winning culture that attracts top-notch talent and serves as the foundation for how we partner, flex and believe in each other. We are also proud to be a Certified B Corporation and we believe a better future means we have a responsibility to use our expertise as a force for good to benefit all people, communities and the planet.The way we see it, the Great Wide Open is an unprecedented time for brands. And we’re ready for it. Let’s go. #BCorp, AdWeek's 2023 Midsized Agency of the Year

Founded in 1935
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
330 employees (139 in marketing)

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