Director, Strategy
Location: This position is remote within the United States.
Brand Strategy Director
This role is for a big picture thinker to shape, position and activate world class brands to drive growth. Someone who can deliver business transforming brand strategy and positioning, as easily as they can bring it to life in creative or experience strategy. But Huge is focused on client outcomes over project outputs, so the real work is helping clients understand their paths to growth, figuring out the work the brand needs to do to get them there, and taking them there through whatever mixture of campaigns, products, experiences promises the greatest success. Your previous experience and formal training will matter, but youll find yourself leaning heavily on vision, thought leadership and creativity as well.
You will lead client and strategy teams and be a partner to CMO clients and to creative department peers.
Role.
Externally you will focus on building deeper strategic client partnerships, growing potential partnerships through creative solutions and helping clients understand the work their brand needs to do in order for them to succeed. Internally you will help make better strategies and better strategists through managing and coaching. And you will build relationships across disciplines - including data, creative, technology and product - to inform holistic strategies, launch bigger ideas and enjoy more satisfying collaborative work.
What youll be doing.
Shaping growth trajectories and strategic visions for brands, through audience understanding, landscape analyses, cultural awareness and creative ideation.
- A solid ability to both direct and get hands on with core brand strategy practices (definition, architecture, naming, etc.); while also being able to move that work into campaigns, product directions and new innovations.
- Leading multi-disciplinary teams to shape and build strategic brand directions.
- Defining the opportunities, insights, and frameworks for creative partners to act on that deliver commercial impact to clients.
- Building and shaping internal processes that facilitate efficient and effective strategy development.
- Developing clear points of view on relevant topics that inform strategy development, clients thinking and thought leadership.
- Leading the development of strategies and coaching other strategists in the same.
- Managing a team of business, brand and creative strategists.
What wed like to see.
- 8+ years of experience driving brand strategy and creative work across traditional, digital, AI and experiential environments.
- Experience developing brand strategy that informs a broad ecosystem - including campaigns, messaging and employee engagement, organizational alignment as well as content and product strategy.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Passion to rapidly build expertise on new businesses and industry verticals.
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams and apply brand thinking to diverse opportunities and channels.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with and persuading senior client leadership.
This role is currently not available for hire or work in New Mexico and Hawaii, USA.
About Huge
Huge is a design and technology company. We create products and experiences that grow the worlds most ambitious brands. We do this by designing experiences for people, not users, and uncovering new sources of growth by leveraging our creative talent, our proprietary platform LIVE and unlocking the advantages brought to us by emerging technologies. We believe all experiences should be intelligent, shoppable and unique to every brand.
Huges nearly 1,000 thinkers, tinkerers, makers and creators, have been problem-solving across North America, Europe, and Latin America for over 25 years. Interested? Youll find more information at .
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