Senior Brand Strategist

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$113K/yr – $173K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own and steer brand strategy and messaging across multi-channel campaigns, translating audience insights and business priorities into differentiated stories while guiding cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency and impact.

  • Lead development of brand positioning, messaging frameworks, and strategic narratives
  • Translate complex strategies into compelling brand stories for campaigns, content, sales, and product marketing
  • Align cross-functional teams to protect the clarity and integrity of the brand across touchpoints

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and evolution of brand positioning, audience-specific value propositions, messaging frameworks, and strategic narratives.
  • Translate complex business strategies, product capabilities, audience needs, and market dynamics into differentiated and compelling brand stories.
  • Develop practical messaging toolkits, strategic narratives, and enablement resources for use across campaigns, content, sales, product marketing, and other client-facing communications.
  • Establish clear guidance for adapting enterprise brand messaging across products, audiences, regions, and stages of the customer journey.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to internal teams, ensuring that brand voice, messaging, and storytelling remain consistent and relevant across touchpoints.
  • Develop clear points of view and recommendations on emerging brand, audience, and market opportunities.
  • Lead the translation of brand strategy into multi-channel campaigns, creative platforms, content, and go-to-market initiatives.
  • Partner with integrated campaign, creative, design, content, and product marketing teams to establish strategic direction and ensure execution aligns with brand and business objectives.
  • Develop and shape strategic and creative briefs that clearly articulate audience insights, business objectives, messaging priorities, and measures of success.
  • Evaluate campaign concepts, content, and creative assets against the approved strategy, providing clear and actionable feedback.

Requirements

  • Seven or more years of progressive experience in brand strategy, integrated marketing strategy, product marketing, or related discipline.
  • Demonstrated experience independently leading positioning, messaging, value proposition, brand architecture, andor naming initiatives.
  • Proven ability to translate audience insights, market dynamics, business priorities, and complex product information into clear and differentiated brand strategies.
  • Experience developing strategic and creative briefs and guiding the translation of strategy into campaigns, content, and client-facing experiences.
  • Strong strategic judgment and the ability to develop and defend a clear point of view while remaining open to new information and stakeholder perspectives.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional workstreams in a highly matrixed organization.
  • Strong executive communication and presentation skills, with experience influencing senior stakeholders and building alignment across teams.
  • Excellent analytical, research, writing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex or technical ideas.
  • Experience developing or applying brand governance systems, messaging guidelines, naming frameworks, or portfolio architecture.
  • Ability to manage multiple strategic priorities, operate effectively through ambiguity, and move work forward with a high degree of independence.

Preferred

  • Experience working in a global organization or adapting strategy across regions and audiences is preferred.
  • Experience in financial services, financial technology, enterprise technology, or another complex B2B regulated industry is preferred.
  • Experience managing agency or research partners is preferred.

Benefits

  • Financial Health
  • 100% 401k match up to 6% of salary
  • Stock Ownership Potential
  • Company provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission
  • Physical Health
  • Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plans and coverages
  • Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annual
  • Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance
  • Emotional Health
  • Trust-Based Time Off
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Morningstar

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Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment insights in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers and owners, retirement plan providers and sponsors, institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets, and alliances and redistributors. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $369 billion in AUMA as of Sept. 30, 2025. The Company operates through wholly-owned subsidiaries in 32 countries.

Founded in 1984
Chicago, Illinois, USA
12K employees (526 in marketing)
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90% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$113K/yr – $173K/yr

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Funding

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$91M
Last Raise
$91M
Private Equity, 27 years ago

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    Private Equity • $91M

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