Job Summary
As Strategy Director at Ologie, you’ll lead strategy for how clients solve complex marketing and brand challenges. You’ll shape the full lifecycle of strategy: defining goals, translating audience insights into frameworks, and building integrated plans that drive measurable outcomes. You’ll work closely with strategy leadership, including Chief Strategy Officer and AVP of strategy, consult directly with senior clients, and help guide interdisciplinary teams to align brand, messaging, creative, and campaign efforts.
You’ll support business development through proposals, pitches, and opportunity planning, while also contributing thought leadership and visibility for the agency’s strategy practice across higher education, healthcare, and mission-driven sectors.
Here's what you'll be doing:

• Collaborating with strategists to define research hypotheses and translate them into research objectives.
• Reviewing existing internal, client-provided and third-party data sources to ground new research in relevant context.
• Drafting, refining, and programing surveys—including incorporating client edits and creative testing needs.
• Supporting research project execution from end-to-end, ensuring deadlines are met on tight timelines.
• Supporting the full survey lifecycle: launch, monitor, close, and coordinate panel providers.
• Developing and applying advanced quantitative methods—such as segmentation, regression, or key driver analysis—to uncover deeper insights, identify exceptions, patterns, and key drivers.
• Creating compelling data visualizations that help clients and teammates grasp the "so what" of the data.
• Translating nuanced qualitative and quantitative data from multiple sources into clear, relevant, and actionable insights and recommendations.
• Presenting findings to internal and external audiences in a way that’s clear, confident, and client-friendly.
• Exploring how AI and emerging technologies can support and streamline research workflows.
• Performing additional tasks and responsibilities as assigned, consistent with the objectives and scope of the role.
  

To be successful in this role, our preference is that you have:

• 8+ years of leadership experience in brand, marketing, or strategy roles - agency or consultancy experience preferred.
• A Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field is preferred, but not required.
• Proven success in developing and delivering brand and marketing strategy for complex organizations, particularly in higher education, fundraising, national non-profits, health systems, or other mission-driven sectors.
• Exceptional ability to translate research, data, and insight into clear, compelling strategic direction.
• Comfort using AI tools to support research, analysis, and day-to-day work.
• Confidence presenting in front of large groups of 30 or more individuals
• Strong skills at building relationships, guiding collaboration, and creating alignment across internal and external partners.
• Confidence in managing teams, budgets, timelines, and competing priorities.
  

Work Environment, Physical and Travel Requirements:

• Able to work effectively from a home office environment, including extended computer use and virtual communication.
• Able to communicate effectively with employees and clients using videoconferencing, phone, email, and collaboration tools.
• Able to perform basic physical tasks such as reaching, standing, walking, and operating standard office equipment. Must be able to lift up to 20 pounds occasionally.
• Able to meet regular attendance and schedule requirements of approximately 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, with occasional extended time to meet business and client needs.
• Able to travel regularly for client meetings and company events, typically 2–3 times per month for 2–3 days per trip, including overnight stays.
  

Don’t meet all of our preferences? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Ologie, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions of the role.
More Important Details

• Ologie follows a hybrid work model, allowing you the flexibility to work from home, or our office in Columbus, Ohio, or a combination of both. For this role, we’re also open to fully remote candidates who are willing to travel occasionally throughout the year for company meetings, conferences, or client visits.
• The salary range for this position is $95,000 to $110,000. Your final salary will be determined based on your training, relevant experience, and location.
• Ologie offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance; company-sponsored life and disability insurance; optional life insurance; mental health support; and a 401(k) profit-sharing plan with a company match. Paid time off, along with paid holidays throughout the year, including a holiday break (typically up to six days) at the end of December.
• Ologie is a 100 percent employee-owned company (ESOP).
  

About Ologie
Ologie is a marketing and branding agency built for mission-driven organizations. We do this with breakthrough creative work, emotional storytelling, a digital-first mindset, and targeted marketing strategies — all working together to drive tangible results and change lives.
Our Culture
We’re a collection of people with a simple mantra: Do the right thing. That means being good to each other and our community. Having fun and giving back. Caring deeply about the work we do and the impact it can have. We have the opportunity to make positive change, and we’re not about to waste it. It’s what makes us who we are at Ologie.
Creating an environment where great work can happen starts with making sure that everyone at Ologie is treated equitably and fairly, and that they feel a strong sense of belonging to this place, to each other, and to the work we make together.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Ologie is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also do not consider these protected characteristics as factors in making employment-related decisions for current or prospective Ologists.