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Senior Strategist (San Diego)
San Diego, CA · Senior · Full-time
No sponsorship$112k-$151kDetected 11 days ago
Data VisualizationBrand StrategyResearchLeadershipCommunicationPublic SpeakingOrganizational Skills
About the role
- LINK is actively seeking a Senior Strategist to join our dynamic team, where we leverage strong partnerships and a robust portfolio of clients across diverse industries.
Responsibilities
- Identify opportunities to create tangible business value through current-state assessments and high-level requirement definition.
- Develop and maintain strong client relationships, including managing external stakeholders and converting new requests into business opportunities.
- Collaborate with design teams to develop infographics, charts, diagrams, presentations, and other visual products that convey complex information clearly.
- Manage multiple internal project teams, organizing assignments and tracking progress, deadlines, and deliverables from both operational and financial perspectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communication, English, Business, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in strategic communication, public affairs, program management, or strategy development
- Some travel required to attend relevant events and conferences, and participate in LINK team events
- Ability to build and maintain robust client relationships and foster positive interpersonal connections
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining a strong focus on accuracy and attention to detail
- Client Partnership & Strategic Leadership
- Partner directly with clients to understand challenges, capture requirements, and define missions, visions, goals, and KPIs/OKRs.
- Collaborate with clients through well-designed meetings and workshops to co-create solutions and gather critical inputs.
- Perform high-quality primary and secondary research to inform strategic direction.
- Apply human-centered design and design-thinking principles to complex problem sets.
- Work iteratively by proactively gathering feedback from clients and internal partners to refine solutions.
Nice to have
- Interest in visual storytelling, including data visualization and conceptualizing abstract ideas
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate in a clear, approachable, and knowledgeable manner
- Active Clearance: Secret required, Top Secret preferred
Compensation
- We're committed to offering competitive compensation.
- While the salary range for this position is $112,000-$151,000, your final offer may be adjusted based on factors like experience and location.
- 11 Federal Holidays per year
Benefits
- $100 monthly internet/cell phone stipend
- $150 monthly commuter stipend for eligible participants
- LINK sponsored healthcare benefits including medical, dental, vision
- Company-paid Short Term Disability Insurance
- 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year
- Paid Holiday Time Off (Christmas Eve through the New Year)
- Annual bonus plan participation
- Annual profit sharing participation
- $2,000 Learning and Development program reimbursement
Company info
- LINK is a fast-growing Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) that leverages human-centered design to support strategy, innovation, communication, change, and branding within the federal government and adjacent industry partners. At LINK, we partner with engineers, futurists, and thought leaders to untangle complexity, discover opportunity, and communicate clearly with visual stories.
- Let us be your partners in change.
- About the Opportunity:
- LINK is actively seeking a Senior Strategist to join our dynamic team, where we leverage strong partnerships and a robust portfolio of clients across diverse industries. As a Senior Strategist, you will interface directly with clients to understand their unique challenges, provide consultative strategy and executive solutions, distill narratives from client provided content and work with the creative team to execute visual products appropriate to the client's brand, industry and culture. You will work with team members across the organization to uncover meaningful insights, build game changing strategies and deliver client-oriented solutions.
- LINK is a fast-growing Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) that leverages human-centered design to support strategy, innovation, communication, change, and branding within the federal government and adjacent industry partners.
- At LINK, we partner with engineers, futurists, and thought leaders to untangle complexity, discover opportunity, and communicate clearly with visual stories.
- As a Senior Strategist, you will interface directly with clients to understand their unique challenges, provide consultative strategy and executive solutions, distill narratives from client provided content and work with the creative team to execute visual products appropriate to the client's brand, industry and culture.
- You will work with team members across the organization to uncover meaningful insights, build game changing strategies and deliver client-oriented solutions.
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