Director of Brand Strategy

Location: United States; consultants in New York City, Charlotte, Seattle, and San Francisco are expected to live within reasonable commuting distance and attend the office at least three days per week. More flexible in-person requirements may apply outside primary markets.

Annual base salary: $180,000–$190,000, plus a discretionary performance-based bonus.

Company

Integrated marketing and consulting business helping ambitious brands solve complex challenges across strategy, creative, digital experience, media, data, and technology.

What you will do

• Define audience-led brand, communications, and experience strategies grounded in human behavior and performance data.
• Build unified brand narrative and experience architectures across creative, communications, content, customer journeys, and channels.
• Partner with Creative, Growth, Analytics, and Client Leadership to establish KPIs, interpret performance signals, and refine strategy.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams from insight through execution while maintaining narrative cohesion and measurable outcomes.
• Help clients reframe challenges, identify growth opportunities, and connect brand strategy to engagement and conversion.

Requirements

• 7–12+ years of strategy experience in a full-service advertising agency or integrated creative consultancy.
• Experience with integrated strategy, brand strategy, communications planning, experience strategy, or brand narrative development.
• Proven ability to lead strategy for complex, multi-channel brand ecosystems.
• Experience guiding creative, media or growth, analytics, CX, and account leadership teams through a unified strategic vision.
• Strong insight development, narrative thinking, customer psychology, journey-led strategy, and performance measurement skills.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible workplace approach aligned with client, business, and market needs.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, HSA, and FSA benefits.
• 401(k) with a 4% match and immediate vesting upon enrollment.
• Paid parental leave, generous PTO, company holidays, and wellness programs.
• Student loan repayment assistance, college savings support, cell phone stipend, and employee assistance resources.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and professional development.