Senior Strategist/Strategy Director: Global Strategic Brand Consultancy
Location: San Francisco, CA
Our client is a leading, global strategic brand consultancy based in San Francisco. Creating identities for some of the world’s most desirable and iconic brands, they unite strategy, design, innovation and experience to build compelling and powerful work across diverse categories. With studios in London, New York, Copenhagen and San Francisco, they share a single philosophy and unique structure that enables them to most effectively bring their collective talent and expertise to every brand they touch.
They currently seek a Senior Strategist/Strategy Director to join their team. As the lead strategist in the SF office, the Senior Strategist will play an incredibly critical role, developing clear and powerful brand and design strategies that set the future for clients’ brands and provide a vision for creative solutions. The position will involve strategic planning across brand strategy, brand architecture, brand voice, brand naming, communication strategy and design strategy.
There is tremendous growth potential in this position, including mentoring and leading a team of more junior strategists as the team continues to build.
Responsibilities:
-Undertake strategic planning across designated clients and projects, encompassing brand strategy, brand architecture, brand voice, brand naming, communication strategy and design strategy.
-Create compelling strategies that make the complex simple, producing sharp, connected thinking to build strong arguments and powerful strategic narratives.
-Express the strategic narrative in the form of imaginative and inspiring presentations in line with the agency’s brand guidelines, providing a focused and stimulating foundation for design creativity
-Adopt a collaborative approach to the development of strategy across the project team to optimize thinking and ensure a close connectivity across Strategy and Design.
-Collaborate closely with the Design Team during the creative process, participating in Creative Reviews and assessing work in the context of the agreed strategy.
-Develop strategic perspectives in the context of new business pitches and proposals, expressing an initial point of view on the brand challenges and opportunities in collaboration with the pitch team.
-As part of the development of strategies, evaluate and analyze research reports, undertake market audits and assess client briefing documents to determine key insights and perspectives.
-Participate in strategic presentations to clients, sharing thinking and engaging the client team
-Represent strategic expertise confidently, with knowledge and intelligence to build long-term strategic relationships with clients.
-As the team builds, supervise the work and performance of junior strategists and interns, providing direction, guidance and mentorship to optimize their performance and development and ensure a highly motivated team.
Requirements:
-An experienced senior design strategist with minimum 6-12 years’ experience (depending on level) of brand design
-An original, agile, conceptual thinker
-Depth of analytical skills to distill complexity
-Ability to express thinking in impactful, connected, inspiring ways
-Strong brand expertise and passion for brand building
-Both intellectual and emotional intelligence
-A confidence and flair in representing thought leadership.
-An intuitive connection to design
-A natural collaborator
-An accomplished communicator
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Send your resume to jodi@trurecruitment.com.