Strategy Director, Brand

Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $180K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own high impact brand strategy with senior clients by turning cultural, consumer, and competitive signals into defensible, revenue-relevant guidance.

  • Lead engagements with CEOs/CMOs and senior brand leaders to shape rigorous, commercially grounded direction.
  • Synthesize cross‑discipline insights to ground strategy in evidence and logic, surfacing non obvious opportunities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead high-impact brand strategy engagements across Invisible Dynamics' client portfolio, working directly with CEOs, CMOs, and senior brand leadership.
  • Shape and oversee the development of brand strategies that are rigorous, creatively inspired, and commercially grounded.
  • Act as a senior strategic partner to clients—guiding decision-making, challenging assumptions, and helping translate brand ambition into actionable direction.
  • Lead the capture, synthesis, and interpretation of cultural, consumer, competitive, and category insight to ground brand strategy in evidence and logic.
  • Work across multiple data sources and platforms to inform strategic thinking, maintaining a platform-agnostic and critically discerning mindset.
  • Conduct and oversee stakeholder interviews, triangulating perspectives into coherent and defensible strategic conclusions.
  • Apply structured, logical thinking to ambiguous brand challenges, ensuring all recommendations are independently defensible.
  • Partner with analysts and research partners where deeper quantitative or primary research is required.
  • Play an active role in defining and evolving Invisible Dynamics' proprietary brand strategy IP, frameworks, and methodologies.
  • Contribute to the development of scalable strategic products and tools, including brand measurement platforms, insight tools, and future-facing strategic capabilities.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as a senior brand strategist.
  • A strong track record of leading complex brand engagements within a consulting or agency environment.
  • A clear point of view on what great brand strategy looks like.
  • You combine analytical rigor with creative imagination—and you are as comfortable shaping proprietary frameworks as you are inspiring a client with a bold brand vision.
  • A proven leader of brand strategy engagements within a top-tier brand consultancy, with experience working across a range of categories and brand context.
  • Deep expert in brand strategy—fluent across identifying the opportunity, defining the brand foundations—including positioning, architecture, identity strategy—with the ability to define and defend a distinctive point of view.
  • Experienced leading client relationships at a senior level, with the confidence to challenge, advise, and guide CEOs, CMOs, and brand leaders.
  • A sophisticated insight practitioner, comfortable working across cultural, consumer, competitive, and category inputs to surface non-obvious opportunities and ground strategy in logic.
  • Excited by the intersection of brand strategy and business strategy—able to connect brand thinking to commercial outcomes, growth levers, and organizational realities.
  • Experienced contributing to or building strategic methodologies, frameworks, and IP within an agency or consultancy environment.

Nice to have

  • Figma proficiency strongly preferred

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision, life insurance and unlimited PTO.
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Invisible Dynamics

Invisible Dynamics is a next-generation brand transformation consultancy. We help the world's most ambitious Brands accelerate growth through harnessing creativity, culture, and commerce to drive revenue and relevance. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York and London, our consulting, agency, production, and incubation group offers a unique partnership model to deliver accelerated growth and stakeholder value.Get in touch: curious@invisibledynamics.comInvisibleDynamics.com

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