Responsibilities

• Become the day-to-day strategic lead and trusted partner for branding Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, workshops, strategy reviews, and client presentations.
• Turn messy conversations, competing opinions, and business goals into clear briefs and decisions.
• Help develop positioning, messaging, narrative, naming, and verbal strategy when the work calls for it.
• Set our creative lead up for success with context, clarity, useful feedback, and strong creative direction.
• Own client communication, meeting cadence, expectations, decisions, scope awareness, and follow-through.
• Keep projects moving while protecting the quality of the work and the relationship.
• Spot friction early. Solve problems before they become drama.
• Build trust with senior clients so they see you as a thinking partner, not a vendor.
• Identify natural opportunities to expand the relationship when there is a real client need we can solve.
• Partner directly with the founder on key strategic moments, major presentations, and relationship growth.

Requirements

• Deep experience in branding, strategy, messaging, creative services, or a closely related field.
• Strong writing instincts. You can hear when language is generic and push until it gets specific.
• Enough visual taste and design literacy to have a smart creative conversation without needing to be the person pushing pixels.
• A natural ability to make clients feel comfortable, understood, and confident.
• The confidence to challenge a client without making the room weird.
• Strong facilitation skills. You know how to run a meeting that actually gets somewhere.
• High ownership. You do not wait around for someone to tell you what the next move is.
• Strong commercial instincts. You can recognize the difference between helping a client and selling them something they do not need.
• Comfort working directly with founders and senior executives.
• A love for the craft. You care about the quality of the thinking and the work, not just whether the project shipped.