VP of Insights and Integrated Strategy

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$170K/yr – $190K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Senior strategy leader role focused on client advisory, cross-channel planning, and data-driven growth. Responsibilities span research, measurement, and team leadership to drive outcomes. Includes business development and industry leadership with a strong emphasis on analytics and AI.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Leadership & Client Advisory: Serve as a senior strategic advisor for clients across brand, GTM, research and integrated marketing engagements.
  • Guide clients through high-impact decisions across brand, performance, customer experience, and local-market strategy.
  • Integrated Strategy Creation: Turn business goals into clear, integrated plans across media, partnerships, SEO, creative, and web—using data, local insights, personalization, and AI.
  • Translate insights into crisp, actionable briefs and orchestrate cross-functional execution from brief to measurement.
  • Lead strategy for high-value accounts, ensuring cohesive cross-channel planning and accountability to outcomes.
  • Drive growth by surfacing opportunities from performance learnings, expanding client relationships, and shaping winning strategic narratives for new business.
  • Base every plan on solid research and use advanced analytics, testing, automation, and personalization to improve performance.
  • Measurement + Performance: Lead development of measurement frameworks that connect brand and marketing activity to business impact.
  • Lead the data and analytics teams to establish KPI models that clearly demonstrate marketing's contribution to business impact and map to client objectives.
  • Advance performance storytelling to make insights actionable and engaging for clients and teams.

Requirements

  • 10+ years leading integrated marketing strategy grounded in analytics, including managing strategists and analysts.
  • Media platforms fluency: Google Ads UI, Meta Ads Manager, LinkedIn Ads
  • Proven record turning business goals into simple, cross-channel plans (paid, partnerships, SEO, creative, web) with clear briefs and measurable impact.
  • Measurement leadership: builds frameworks that connect brand and performance work to business outcomes; designs practical tests; communicates results clearly to execs.
  • Familiarity with analytics, data visualization, and pipeline/ETL tools
  • Research-driven: comfortable with quant/qual methods, audience segmentation, journey mapping, and local-market nuance—and turns insights into direction.
  • Operational and people leader: hires and develops talent, sets clear operating rhythms and quality bars, and orchestrates Media, Creative, Tech, and Web from brief through measurement.
  • Executive presence and growth mindset: confident client advisor and storyteller; helps win pitches and grow accounts; practical with marketing tech and AI; innately models proactivity & curiosity.

Preferred

  • Executive presence and growth mindset: confident client advisor and storyteller; helps win pitches and grow accounts; practical with marketing tech and AI; innately models proactivity & curiosity.

Benefits

  • A hybrid office model, with the option to WFH 3-4 days/week
  • A minimum of 20 days off yearly + 12 company holidays + summer hours
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability Insurance
  • Employer-matched 401(k)
  • Transit benefits, corporate discount programs, free fitness center membership
  • Career pathing, dedicated budget towards opportunities for professional growth
  • A culture focused on collaboration, curiosity & support, with regular events, volunteerism, and an employee-led recognition program
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Envisionit

Envisionit is an award-winning, full-service digital marketing agency headquartered in Chicago with in-house Media, Creative, Tech, Strategy and Analytics teams. We have fueled growth for clients in a range of industries, with a core focus is in technology, CPG and destination.We are bold and resourceful. Energized and curious. Ready to solve problems and eager to apply new ideas. Our mission is to know our clients and their market, customer, and needs better than anyone else in order to help them achieve goals faster & without friction. In our work, we value being engaged, proactive, impactful, curious, and supportive. In our culture, we champion transparency, belonging, giving back, and having fun. Our purpose at Envisionit is to "Seize the Opportunity." For our employees, partners, and clients: now is the moment to grow, learn, be curious, build new capabilities, and achieve amazing things.Current career opportunities at Envisionit are available here: https://envisionitagency.com/careers/

Founded in 2002
Chicago, Illinois, USA
78 employees (27 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30%
Direct
45.8%
Referral
6.8%
Social
15.7%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~78

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
20 (26% of company)
Median Career Experience
15.5 years
Median Tenure
5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3