Strategist

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$75K/yr – $100K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

This role centers on turning research and cultural insights into actionable brand briefs while collaborating across Creative, Brand, Media, CNX, and Data teams. It emphasizes strategic interrogation of needs, leadership in workshops, and building strong cross-functional relationships. The role also highlights a focus on sports and cultural insight, with a path to shaping brand platforms.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Use research, data, and cultural insights to write original, actionable, and measurable briefs for our brands.
  • Rigorously interrogate brand, audience, and client needs to drive strategy.
  • Serve as a trusted supporting partner to the strategy and creative teams, helping them bring ideas to life.
  • Help unpack complex brand or business problems, identifying both barriers and opportunities.
  • Use agency tools, gain and share knowledge, and guide others.
  • Explain how cultural and social trends impact consumer behavior, brand perception, and opportunity spaces.
  • Confidently develop discussion guides and moderate qualitative research sessions.
  • Contribute to internal and external workshops, helping shape ideas and brand platform thinking.
  • Establish strong, collaborative relationships across Creative, Brand, Media, CNX, and Data teams, as well as other Strategists.

Requirements

  • 3+ years' experience in advertising, brand strategy, marketing, or related fields.
  • Demonstrated experience developing or contributing to successful brand work.
  • Deep passion for sports and cultural insight into the world of sport.
  • Exceptional conceptual thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset—sees opportunity, drives solution,s and takes ownership.
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity and fast-moving environments.
  • Natural project management skills; able to move projects forward independently.
  • Excellent interpersonal, organization, and written communication skills.
  • All hires must be located in or willing to relocate to Los Angeles to work from our offices, hybrid three days a week.

Preferred

Benefits

  • Benefits for this role include health/vision/dental insurance, 401(k), stock purchase, vacation, sick and personal days.
  • Also, you will be eligible (approximately thirty days after you commence employment) to participate in all disability, life, travel insurance plans and programs, retirement plans subject to the terms and conditions of such benefit plans.
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TBWA\Chiat\Day

TBWA\Chiat\Day is part of TBWA\Worldwide: The Disruption® Company (www.tbwa.com) and has offices in New York, Los Angeles and Nashville. Named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company and to the AdAge A-List, TBWA creates disruptive ideas that locate and involve brands in culture, giving them a larger share of the future. Our collective has 11,300 creative minds across 275 offices in 95 countries, and includes brands such as Auditoire, Digital Arts Network (DAN), eg+ worldwide, GMR, TBWA\Media Arts Lab, TBWA\WorldHealth and TRO. Global clients include adidas, Apple, Gatorade, Henkel, Hilton Hotels, McDonald's, Nissan and Singapore Airlines. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. TBWA is part of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com), a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

Founded in 1968
New York, New York, USA
706 employees (332 in marketing)

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