Brand Strategist

New York, USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive brand strategy engagements for tech clients, shaping positioning, narrative, and identity across discovery to implementation.

  • Own end-to-end brand strategy engagements, from discovery workshops to final briefs.
  • Must-have: 4–7 years in brand strategy with a strong portfolio.
  • Standout: Opportunity to define and grow Nen's strategy practice.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead brand strategy engagements for our branding clients — positioning, narrative, audience, messaging frameworks, brand voice, and identity briefs
  • Run discovery and research to get to a strategy: founder interviews, audience research, competitive landscape, brand audits, and stakeholder workshops
  • Develop marketing strategy for clients across launch campaigns, content programs, channel mix, and go-to-market storytelling, building on the brand foundation
  • Write copy across websites, decks, brand books, launch materials, and other touchpoints — landing pages, manifestos, product narratives, taglines, and short-form social
  • Brief and partner with our brand designers and creative leads so that strategy translates cleanly into identity, design, and the rest of the work we ship
  • Partner with our producers, motion team, and editors to make sure brand language and voice carry through every output
  • Help scope strategy work inside larger branding and production engagements, balancing depth with feasibility
  • Support new business when strategy is part of the pitch, helping shape opportunities from inquiry through close
  • Push the work beyond the obvious. We value people with strong taste, sharp thinking, and the appetite to refine a positioning line until it actually lands

Requirements

  • 4 to 7 years of experience in brand strategy, ideally at a brand or marketing consultancy, strategy-led studio, or in-house at a fast-moving company
  • Strong portfolio of brand strategy work — positioning, narrative, messaging frameworks, brand voice, and the briefs that bridge strategy into identity
  • Deep understanding of how brand strategy translates into identity, voice, and design, and how to brief and partner with designers to bring it to life
  • Strong copywriter across long-form and short-form, with writing samples that demonstrate range across narrative, web, decks, and brand
  • Marketing strategy fundamentals — audience, positioning, gtm, channels, funnel, and how brand strategy connects to launch, content, and performance
  • Strong research instincts. You know how to design discovery for a new client, ask the right questions in a founder interview, and pull insights from a messy landscape into a clear point of view
  • Confident client-facing presence. You can lead a workshop with a founder and a leadership team, hold the room, and push back when it matters
  • Comfortable working in a fast-moving agency environment where timelines shift, scopes evolve, and projects sometimes require after-hours responsiveness
  • Self-directed and remote-ready. You can run your own discovery, manage your own timelines, and keep clients aligned without constant supervision
  • Calm, organized, and dependable under pressure, with the ability to keep multiple projects and stakeholders moving at once

Benefits

  • Be part of a small, fast-growing creative studio trusted by world-class startups and investors
  • Work directly with the partners on ambitious, high-impact projects across some of the most interesting companies in tech
  • Lead and define the strategy practice at Nen, with real ownership over how we approach the work and how the team grows
  • Help shape the brands, narratives, and stories of the next generation of tech companies
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), PTO, and company holidays
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Nen Creative

Design studio that empowers early-stage companies to tell their story and build their vision. Capabilities include brand identity, pitch deck design/development, websites, and UI design. Clients include Pear VC, Andreessen Horowitz, LA-Tech Week, Wildr, Mantis VC, and more.

Founded in 2022
New York, New York, USA
20 employees (13 in marketing)