Design Bridge and Partners

Design Bridge and Partners

Strategy Director

New York · Director · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$175kDetected 12 days ago
Design SystemsAgileBrand StrategyForecastingLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • Our clients include global brands across industries, such as technology, finance, consumer goods, and media.
  • Strategy-to-Creative Synergy: Bridge the gap between logic and magic.
  • Relationship Management & Growth Strategic C-Suite Access: Cultivate strong, trusted relationships with key senior strategy and marketing decision-makers within client organizations.

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Blueprinting: Lead the strategic development phase of projects, translating complex business problems into clear design briefs and concrete creative opportunities.
  • Work alongside creative teams in the studio to ensure that 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 and push design output into distinct, brave, and award-winning spaces.
  • Resource Optimization: Strategically plan and manage internal and freelance strategy resources for your core client accounts, matching project requirements with the right talent.
  • Milestone Ownership: Collaborate with Creative Directors and Client Leadership to map out project milestones, define strategic outputs, manage timelines, and ensure flawless, agile delivery.
  • New Business and Practice Development: Proactively present Design Bridge and Partners' full spectrum of capabilities across markets and practices, spearheading new market initiatives in support of the agency's long-term growth plan.
  • Empathy & Guidance: Foster a psychological safe, highly motivated, and inspired team culture. Lead by example with high standards of professionalism and open, constructive communication.
  • Strategic Track Record: Substantial experience leading brand and creative strategy within premium design consultancies, brand agencies, or strategic marketing roles.
  • Lead by example with high standards of professionalism and open, constructive communication.

Requirements

  • A proven ability to make others-including complex client stakeholder groups-passionate ambassadors for the agency's strategic and creative thinking.
  • CPG & Beyond: Deep experience steering massive global consumer brands (CPG / FMCG), with a strong understanding of packaging design systems, structural branding, and omnichannel brand expression.

Skills

  • Act as a cohesive link across our studio network, encouraging cross-sharing of insights, skills, and strategic intelligence.
  • The salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $150,000-175,000.
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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 $150,000-175,000.

Benefits

  • Core Values: You live and breathe our 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.

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.
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