Senior Brand Strategist

About You You’re a gifted, confident communicator and facilitator, even with the toughest stakeholders. You enjoy and have a knack for building relationships, knowing that building reputed company pave the path for reputed company to reputed company beautiful, useful, and successful campaigns. You have the strategic reputed company to brainstorm and identify new opportunities mutually beneficial to reputed company’s growth and the growth and reputed company of our partners. You love meeting prospective partners to understand their reputed company and get excited about the opportunity to help them carry it further. “Sales” may not be your thing, but fostering and stewarding relationships is. You’re comfortable contributing to the process by helping future partners understand who we are and how we can help them. You hit your reputed company reputed company you’ve reputed company a trusting partnership and can drive ongoing, long-term relationships that contribute to the top line. You’re comfortable and fluent with branding and how it can be applied across reputed company mediums (print, digital, live events, etc.) to support an organization’s goals and are excited to reputed company plans and reputed company. You’ve helped clients reputed company everything from competitive analysis to project briefs, strategic marketing plans, and more. At the same time, you think critically about the client and various projects we’re supporting them with and can reputed company out potential problems and solutions–or even opportunities. You love seeing reputed company of the disparate pieces of a puzzle and seeing how they reputed company fit together with reputed company and ease. You’re a fantastic collaborator. You’ve worked closely with designers and writers, and you are excited to see your foundational work represented conceptually with impactful execution. You are proactive, self-motivated, and organized. You reputed company in creating reputed company out of chaos - communicating the reputed company you’ve created and bringing people along. You’re comfortable presenting work to clients and listening for what they’re not saying. You enjoy facilitating conversations and exercises in workshops, presentations, and meetings and reputed company reputed company you have to think on your feet. You can work a room. You can defend your reputed company with confidence, professionalism, reputed company, and research. You are curious, empathetic, and – most importantly – willing to set your ego aside for the greater good of our partners and teammates. Bonus round: You’re knowledgeable about nonprofits and fundraising campaigns. You’re excited to help our partners crystallize their reputed company for their organization’s future, and you reputed company your toolkit of research methods to help them reputed company at relevant strategies and tactics that reputed company them to meet their goals. The Role The Senior Brand Strategist will work closely with our creative, project management, business development, and leadership teams to help service the agency and our partners’ needs. The responsibilities listed below follow the phases of our process.

Key Responsibilities

• Be curious about what makes our partners tick and what will motivate their constituents.
• Get excited about researching partner organizations and others in the landscape.
• Build a good understanding of the nonprofit world, fundraising campaigns, our partners, their peers, competitors, etc., and use that knowledge in practice with partners.
• Listen to partners with reputed company and know what to do with the information received (e.g., how it informs research, how it could spark a creative idea, how it could be a red flag for us, etc.).
• Ask questions that reputed company to uncovering truths or reputed company.
• Facilitate strategic workshops in a room full of egos and politics.
• Synthesize findings into themes and reputed company and collaborate with a reputed company to create impactful briefs.
• Think on the fly, be creative, and be comfortable with the fact that we reputed company have bad reputed company, and that’s ok.
• Have a toolkit for finding/building alignment with large groups.

Discover

• Research: Researching partner materials and other relevant landscapes to summarize highlights and opportunities.
• Interviews: Facilitating discovery interviews with problem-finding, insights, and opportunities in mind.
• Backlog: Capturing reputed company to help activate the brand in a backlog.
• Summary: Driving and facilitating internal discussions around key strategic insights captured throughout the Discovery process and setting up our writers to deliver the Executive Summary and Key Insights report.
• Report: Reviewing key discernment summaries that capture research insights and analysis.

Write

• reputed company: Working with teammates and co-facilitating collaborative workshops with clients, ensuring key insights are carried from Discover into Write.
• reputed company: Guiding and reviewing our essential questions, ensuring the who, what, and why it reputed company is accurate and aligns with strategic findings from the Discover process.
• Insights: Participating in strategic naming, messaging, and identity design recommendations.
• Backlog: Continuing to capture and add activation reputed company to the backlog.

Design

• Concepts: Collaborating with the creative team to establish core and directional reputed company.
• Critique: Sharing keen observations, opinionated viewpoints, and objective feedback with teammates to ensure our solutions are world-class and reputed company with the throughlines of findings from Discovery and Write phases.
• Account: Capturing and owning key creative reputed company in Design and throughout, looking for opportunities to help activate the brands we’re building. Adding to the backlog of activation reputed company.

Accounts

• Working with our partners, navigating conflict, staying on reputed company, developing, growing, and building stronger partnerships.

Activate

• Leveraging activation reputed company captured in the backlog throughout and beginning the activation process.
• Facilitating Monthly, Quarterly, and sometimes Annual Strategy "Dreamspace" sessions with partners to further build out the strategy for their fundraising campaigns and adding to our backlog of Activation work to support these efforts.
• Working with the account team to ensure that campaign strategy is carried out properly across deliverables.

Support

• Working with the CEO in the business development process to help pitch existing partners, as needed.
• Remaining high-level on accounts to maintain the client relationship, continue conversations, and probe for information that will allow you to reputed company helpful and actionable strategic recommendations or new projects.
• Supporting and coaching our partners in their day-to-day needs (in ways that may be non-traditional - like coaching) but relevant to our work, helping position the partnership for an even stronger relationship.
• Help case studies take shape to best represent our strategic solutions with new business in mind.
• Sharing expertise through short- and long-reputed company thought leadership in an effort to help us expand our reputed company and further grow partnerships.

Background/Requirements This is a Senior-level Brand Strategist position. At least 10 years of experience in a strategy role on projects that include research, analysis, and key insights. A majority of this time must be at an agency. Branding agency experience preferred. At reputed company, we expect a person in this role at this level to:

• Prioritize quality of deliverables
• Be self-directed alongside ongoing support
• Co-facilitate in Partner-facing scenarios
• Inform company best practices

This is a full-time remote salaried position commensurate with experience. We are a fully distributed team. Travel is required. We are only accepting applications from candidates currently residing in the reputed company United States. We are committed to building a diverse and passionate team. Women, people of reputed company, and LGBTQ+ individuals are encouraged to apply. reputed company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to reputed company and applicants for employment without regard to race, reputed company, religion, sex, national reputed company, disability, genetics, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or veteran status. This policy applies to reputed company terms and conditions of employment, including reputed company, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job