Director Brand Strategy

New York City, NY (On-site)

$180K/yr – $190K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 21 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and shape audience-led strategy and unified brand narratives across channels, guiding experience design and measurement to drive measurable outcomes.

  • Own the development of strategy foundations and storytelling frameworks.
  • Lead cross-disciplinary teams from insight to execution with analytics partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Shape audience-led strategies that clarify how brands build meaningful, lasting relationships with people and how those relationships translate into measurable outcomes.
  • Establish a unified experience and narrative architecture that aligns brand storytelling, communications, customer journeys, and success metrics.
  • Elevate creative output by grounding ideas in deep human insight and clearly articulated objectives that enable performance evaluation and learning.
  • Help clients reframe challenges, identify growth opportunities, and connect strategy to outcomes across brand, engagement, and conversion through clearer narrative direction and experience design choices.
  • Contribute to the evolution of SiaX’s strategic POV by strengthening how insight, experience design, brand narrative systems, and measurement work together in an integrated offering.

Requirements

  • 7–12+ years of strategy experience within a full-service advertising agency or integrated creative consultancy, spanning integrated strategy, brand strategy, communications planning, experience strategy, brand narrative development, storytelling strategy, or a closely related audience-centric discipline.
  • Proven track record leading strategy for complex, multi-channel brand ecosystems where storytelling, behavior, communications, experience design, and collaboration with analytics teams must work together seamlessly.
  • Experience guiding multidisciplinary teams (creative, media/growth, analytics, CX, account leadership) through a unified strategic vision from insight to execution and consistent brand story expression.
  • History of shaping strategic foundations that scale across campaigns, platforms, and customer journeys not one-off initiatives or isolated campaign narratives.
  • Exceptional insight development, paired with the ability to partner with analytics teams to define success metrics and interpret performance data.
  • Strong narrative thinker who distills complexity into clarity and builds frameworks teams can rally behind including brand story and experience frameworks.
  • Skilled at guiding creative and experience development through a customer psychology and journey-led lens while maintaining accountability to outcomes and narrative cohesion.
  • Confident presenting to senior clients and shaping how they think about their brand’s role in people’s lives and business performance through experience and story, not just messaging.
  • Human-centered, curious, empathetic, and pattern-oriented.
  • Highly collaborative and comfortable navigating multiple inputs, stakeholders, and data sources.

Preferred

  • Exceptional insight development, paired with the ability to partner with analytics teams to define success metrics and interpret performance data
  • Strong narrative thinker who distills complexity into clarity and builds frameworks teams can rally behind including brand story and experience frameworks
  • Skilled at guiding creative and experience development through a customer psychology and journey-led lens while maintaining accountability to outcomes and narrative cohesion
  • Confident presenting to senior clients and shaping how they think about their brand’s role in people’s lives and business performance through experience and story, not just messaging
  • Human-centered, curious, empathetic, and pattern-oriented
  • Highly collaborative and comfortable navigating multiple inputs, stakeholders, and data sources
  • Balances strategic rigor with creative intuition and narrative sensibility
  • Energized by ambiguity, vision-setting, and elevating the work of teams through insight and learning and through stronger brand and experience storytelling.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision; company-paid life and AD&D; voluntary supplemental insurance and EAP
  • 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting; HSA and FSA options
  • College savings and student loan repayment programs
  • Paid parental leave; generous PTO, nine company holidays, and one floating holiday
  • Cell phone stipend; well-being and professional development programs
  • Benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements.
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Sia/Ready Set Rocket

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In July 2024, Ready Set Rocket joined Sia Experience, the digital and design branch of Sia. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3XBaFnNReady Set Rocket is a full-service agency founded in 2009 that blends data, design and media to drive business outcomes for our clients. We’re a group of passionate creators who work seamlessly across disciplines to make the most innovative and accountable work possible. Whether we’re building human-centric solutions to brand challenges or making strides to advance mental healthcare in the modern workforce, we’re here to make good work that moves the needle.We’re a small but mighty team, driven by passion and purpose. A full-service agency set on shaking up the status quo. Our values of wellness in the workplace and our people-first culture have won us awards such as...Built In NYC, NYC Best Small Companies "Best Places to Work" 2022 Ad Age Small Agency Awards, "Best Agency Culture" 2018Crain’s "Best Places to Work" in NYC 2016 & 2017Our team of digital marketers, designers, writers and planners work collaboratively across a range of disciplines. We’re smart, agile, accessible—a group of fearless leaders looking to inspire change. Join us as we create a new world together.

Founded in 2009
New York, New York, USA
37 employees (20 in marketing)
81% recommend to a friend
79% CEO approval

Salaries

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$180K/yr – $190K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
11 (30% of company)
Median Tenure
1.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

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Monthly Visitors
720
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.5%
Direct
50%
Referral
5.9%
Social
12%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~37
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Director Brand Strategy

Sia/Ready Set Rocket · New York City, NY · On-site