Design Bridge and Partners

Design Bridge and Partners

Senior Strategist

New York · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$90k-$105kDetected 12 days ago
SparkBrand StrategyForecastingResearchLeadershipCollaborationMentoringPublic Speaking

About the role

  • Our clients include global brands across industries, such as technology, finance, consumer goods, and media.
  • Leadership & Collaboration - Mentorship & Psychological Safety: Act as a supportive mentor to Junior and Mid-level Strategists, fostering a motivating, and collaborative team culture.
  • We're passionate about our people and their careers.

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Blueprinting (Ownership & Support): Autonomously drive the strategic phase on mid-to-large projects, and support Strategy Directors on massive global assignments-translating client business challenges into sharp, actionable brand foundations and creative briefs.
  • Work closely with design teams in the studio, acting as a trusted sounding board to ensure strategic recommendations are beautifully and consistently carried through from concept to final execution.
  • Briefing & Inspiration: Design and deliver inspiring creative briefs that challenge conventional thinking, providing the spark that pushes design output into distinct, brave, and award-winning spaces.
  • Strategic Collaboration: Actively partner with resource managers and Strategy Directors to ensure the right strategic talent is assigned to projects, assisting in onboarding freelance strategy resources when needed.
  • Milestone Execution: Collaborate with Creative Directors and Client Leadership to map out project milestones, own the drafting of strategic outputs, manage timelines, and ensure agile, on-time delivery of strategic phases.
  • Client Relationship Building: Cultivate trusted, day-to-day working relationships with brand managers and senior marketing stakeholders within client organizations.
  • Growth Support: Support pitches and new business initiatives by preparing pitch materials, conducting competitive landscape research, and presenting strategy modules with confidence.
  • Mentorship & Psychological Safety: Act as a supportive mentor to Junior and Mid-level Strategists, fostering a motivating, and collaborative team culture. Lead by example with high standards of strategic rigor.
  • CPG & Beyond: Strong experience working with consumer brands (CPG/FMCG), with a solid understanding of how packaging design, structural branding, and omnichannel expressions bring a brand to life.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of experience in brand strategy within premium design consultancies, brand agencies, or strategic marketing roles, demonstrating a clear ability to lead projects independently.
  • A natural communicator with a proven ability to present complex ideas clearly, making client teams and internal stakeholders passionate advocates for our creative thinking.
  • Strategic Track Record: 5-7 years of experience in brand strategy within premium design consultancies, brand agencies, or strategic marketing roles, demonstrating a clear ability to lead projects independently.

Skills

  • Creative Thinker, Inspirational People Person, and Entrepreneurial Spirit.
  • The salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $90,000-105,000.
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Compensation

  • We're proud to be the world's most awarded brand design agency, with 28 Cannes Lions to our name and Creative Review Annual's Most Creative Design Agency of the Year 2024.
  • The salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $90,000-105,000.

Benefits

  • Core Values: Creative Thinker, Inspirational People Person, and Entrepreneurial Spirit.
  • We'll help you develop your skills and provide you with outstanding benefits, giving you the chance to make your mark on our future, as we make a mark on yours.
  • We offer a competitive benefits package, click WPP Benefits for more details.

Company info

  • At Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, we design brands with the power to move-pulling people towards them with an irresistible force that compels and connects. With 900 creative minds across 18 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds, and beliefs, we are united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients' brands, benefiting their business, people, and the planet. Our clients include global brands across industries, such as technology, finance, consumer goods, and media.
  • About WPP
  • WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
  • Strategic & Project Direction
  • At Design Bridge and Partners, part of WPP, we design brands with the power to move-pulling people towards them with an irresistible force that compels and connects.
  • With 900 creative minds across 18 studios worldwide, diverse in expertise, experience, backgrounds, and beliefs, we are united in our ambition to achieve real impact for our clients' brands, benefiting their business, people, and the planet.
  • WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands.
  • We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
  • For more information, visit WPP.com.
  • You'll get to take new projects to award-winning potential, as part of a connected team of brilliant, tenacious people right by your side and across the world.
  • At Design Bridge and Partners, we believe that being together in person drives stronger collaboration, sparks creativity, and builds deeper connections, all of which contribute to your professional growth and the exceptional work we deliver for our clients.

Equal opportunity

  • Design Bridge and Partners, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics.
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