Associate, Brand Strategy

Location: Hybrid; new hires work from the office 3 days per week for the first 6 months, followed by 2–3 office days per week

Base salary: $115,000–$150,000 per year, plus performance-based incentives

Company

Lippincott is a global brand, marketing, and experience consultancy within Oliver Wyman and hirify.global, combining strategic consulting with creative brand expertise.

What you will do

• Distill research, market trends, and client inputs into strategic insights and brand opportunities.
• Manage day-to-day workplans and adapt deliverables as client needs change.
• Develop client presentations and shape the flow of strategic recommendations.
• Partner with designers and experience strategists to build multidisciplinary brand solutions.
• Present to internal teams and clients, facilitate workshops, and conduct leadership interviews.
• Guide junior team members and serve as a key client and stakeholder contact for the workstream.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of full-time experience in strategy consulting or a consulting environment, focused on brand strategy and/or business strategy.
• Outstanding writing, communication, and interpersonal skills, including strong PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to connect deep business understanding to brand implications and extend thinking into experience and marketing.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a structured approach to open-ended problems.
• Openness to travel as needed and willingness to build and learn collaboratively.

Nice to have

• MBA degree.
• Experience across new industries and complex strategic challenges.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative culture built around demanding better, being wide open, and saying “yes, and!”.
• Commitment to inclusion, belonging, respectful collaboration, and diverse perspectives.
• Hybrid work model combining office collaboration, remote flexibility, and onsite client work.
• Health benefits, 401(k) savings, employee assistance programs, and performance-based incentives.