Senior Brand Strategist

About This Role

This senior brand strategist role is an important player on a small but mighty team, helping clients' brands shine to grow their businesses. It is ideal for a strategist looking to evolve from a strong individual contributor into an emerging strategic leader, ready to lead portions of client business independently while managing and mentoring a less experienced teammate.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear and compelling strategic direction that distills a hard problem into an easy-to-understand way forward
• Offer original strategic thinking that can rally a team
• Lead within the agency with energy and enthusiasm
• Lead with clients, sharing work with a sense of command to build confidence in the strategy
• Paint a clear picture of where the brand is now, where it needs to go, and how to get there
• Focus on the effectiveness of work to grow clients' businesses, understanding how they make money and the problems they face
• Conduct, manage, and interpret qualitative and quantitative research, imagining different approaches
• Stay up-to-date on the state-of-the-art in advertising, brands, and media, and form strong opinions
• Supervise, teach, and mentor less experienced strategists
• Contribute to brand positioning, creative briefing, campaign development, qualitative research development, quantitative research synthesis, creating strategic frameworks, and communications strategy

Requirements

• 5-9 years experience in brand strategy at a creatively-oriented advertising agency, or directly related experience
• Optimism
• Dynamism and natural energy
• Curiosity and a desire for continuous learning and challenge

Important Details

• Reports to: Director of Brand Strategy & Insights
• Work format: in-office at least 3 days per week, but encouraged to be in-office more often

About the Company

At Rise and Shine and Partners, the agency culture is true to its name, fostering an environment where people thrive and shine.