Responsibilities

• Strategic thinking + creative thinking. Provide clear and compelling strategic direction that distills a hard problem into an easy-to-understand way forward.
• Leadership within the agency. Strategists must be leaders.
• Leadership with clients. Strategists must also be leaders for our clients.
• Effectiveness stewardship. Everything we do for our clients is to grow their business, so our strategists must be focused on the effectiveness of our work.
• Research stewardship. Conducting, managing, and interpreting research is a big part of a strategist’s credibility.
• Stay up-to-date on the state-of-the-art. You have to be curious enough about advertising, brands, and media to stay up-to-date on the conventional wisdom.
• Supervision and mentorship. Part of what makes this role “senior” is having the ability to supervise, teach, and mentor less experienced strategists.

Requirements

• 5-9 years experience in brand strategy at a creatively-oriented advertising agency, or directly related experience.
• In-office at least 3 days per week, but encouraged to be in-office more often than that.

Preferred

• Optimism
• Dynamism
• Curiosity
• Interestingness
• Opinionated
• Collaborative
• Clarity
• Writing
• Presenting
• Action-Oriented