3 weeks ago
Senior Strategist
Design Bridge and Partners
New York City, NY (Hybrid)Full time$90K/yr – $105K/yr
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Senior Strategist
New York City, NY (Hybrid)
$90K/yr – $105K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time
Posted 3 weeks ago
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Job Summary
Own strategic phases and mentor junior strategists while translating client challenges into brand foundations that power creative work.
- Strategic ownership: Own mid-to-large projects from brief through delivery, coordinating with Strategy Directors and clients.
- Studio synergy: Align with design teams to carry strategic recommendations into execution.
- Inspiration & briefs: Craft provocative briefs that push for brave, award-ready work.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Strategic Blueprinting (Ownership & Support): Autonomously drive the strategic phase on mid-to-large projects, and support Strategy Directors on massive global assignments—translating client business challenges into sharp, actionable brand foundations and creative briefs.
- Strategy-to-Creative Synergy: Bridge the gap between logic and magic. Work closely with design teams in the studio, acting as a trusted sounding board to ensure strategic recommendations are beautifully and consistently carried through from concept to final execution.
- Briefing & Inspiration: Design and deliver inspiring creative briefs that challenge conventional thinking, providing the spark that pushes design output into distinct, brave, and award-winning spaces.
- Strategic Collaboration: Actively partner with resource managers and Strategy Directors to ensure the right strategic talent is assigned to projects, assisting in onboarding freelance strategy resources when needed.
- Milestone Execution: Collaborate with Creative Directors and Client Leadership to map out project milestones, own the drafting of strategic outputs, manage timelines, and ensure agile, on-time delivery of strategic phases.
- Client Relationship Building: Cultivate trusted, day-to-day working relationships with brand managers and senior marketing stakeholders within client organizations.
- Growth Support: Support pitches and new business initiatives by preparing pitch materials, conducting competitive landscape research, and presenting strategy modules with confidence.
- Mentorship & Psychological Safety: Act as a supportive mentor to Junior and Mid-level Strategists, fostering a motivating, and collaborative team culture. Lead by example with high standards of strategic rigor.
- Studio Connection: Act as a highly collaborative link across our studio network, sharing insights, trend analyses, and strategic intelligence across teams.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of experience in brand strategy within premium design consultancies, brand agencies, or strategic marketing roles
- Strong experience working with consumer brands (CPG/FMCG), with a solid understanding of how packaging design, structural branding, and omnichannel expressions bring a brand to life.
- The Modern Toolkit: Confident integrating digital ecosystems, social analytics, trend forecasting, and AI-powered tools into your creative research and strategy workflow.
- Collaborative Presenter: A natural communicator with a proven ability to present complex ideas clearly, making client teams and internal stakeholders passionate advocates for our creative thinking.
- Core Values: Creative Thinker, Inspirational People Person, and Entrepreneurial Spirit.
Benefits
- We’ll help you develop your skills and provide you with outstanding benefits, giving you the chance to make your mark on our future, as we make a mark on yours.
- We offer a competitive benefits package, click WPP Benefits for more details.
Design Bridge and Partners
A WPP company, Design Bridge and Partners is a globalbrand design agency. With 850 creative minds across 16studios worldwide, we design brands with the power tomove people, stirring emotion to drive action. Experts in brand strategy, brand identity, brandexperience and brand effectiveness, we work inpartnership with our clients to build and translate emotioninto equity, ultimately designing what brands stand forinto how they stand out.Globally our clients include the BBC, Coca-Cola, Diageo,Heineken, HSBC, Lenovo, Mastercard, Mondelez, NASAArtemis, Tencent, Reckitt and Unilever.
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