VP, Strategy Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$165K/yr – $185K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own strategic leadership for healthcare branding at an agile agency, turning research, culture trends, and client storytelling into disruptive creative ideas and growth roadmaps.

  • Strategic Leadership: Guide research and insight generation to shape brand positioning, briefs, and disruptive concepts.
  • Client & Team Growth: Develop senior client relationships and mentor junior strategists through learning and development.
  • Workshop & Facilitation: Lead ideation sessions and leverage Disruption tools to surface actionable opportunities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to a culture that grows and motivates colleagues and clients to adopt Disruption and new methodologies uncovered as central to brand efforts
  • Manage and mentor junior strategists to foster engagement through learning and development that leads to career growth
  • Develop meaningful and productive senior client relationships to ensure strategic recommendations exceed expectations
  • Help create and facilitate agency and client ideation sessions. Must be able to employ Disruption and other facilitation session tools
  • Be a methodological and analytical leader in driving client and agency research through new ways of gaining insight into our brands
  • Contribute to and lead various aspects of Disruption Live by finding trending topics and monitoring macro-trends in culture
  • Work with account and creative managers to create brand positioning, Disruption roadmaps, and creative briefs
  • Facilitate efforts at generating insights from a variety of data sources to ensure development of Disruptive creative and brand ideas
  • Contribute to new business pitches by managing customer insight generation, which is tied to pitch product clinical data
  • Interview target prospects to generate pitch content and story flow from findings

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 5-7 years’ prior work experience, preferably in an agency environment (pharmaceutical experience highly desired)
  • General computer proficiency
  • Prior internal team and brand strategy experience
  • A foundational skill set defined by
  • Research/data focus
  • Independence
  • Patience, confidence, and leadership
  • Creativity and strategic agility
  • Oratory talent, verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to command a room
  • Sound judgment and discretion for conflict resolution
  • Able to work hybrid in our NYC office
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Founded in 2016
San Francisco, California, USA
97 employees (4 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

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Traffic Source Mix
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35.7%
Direct
50.2%
Referral
5.6%
Social
7.7%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~97

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (3% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$123.5M
Last Raise
$7.5M
Corporate Round, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2022
    Corporate Round • $7.5M
  • Feb 2022
    Series B • $100M
  • Oct 2019
    Series A • $12.5M

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