Strategy Director

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Reports to: VP Strategy
FLSA Status: Exempt

Who We Are

Were the U.S. Brand Experience practice of FutureBrand a global strategic design consultancy with offices in Syracuse Cincinnati Detroit and New York City and the secret weapon behind countless global innovators.

Through the unique combination of the insight and strategy expertise of a management consulting firm the creativity of world-class storytellers and design innovators the rapid in-context prototyping capabilities of a manufacturer weve become indispensable partners to some of the worlds leading brands.

We make what should be creating transformative brand experiences that bridge the gap between what a brand promises and what people experience in the real world. We achieve this through a unique synergy of behavioral design thinking and creative brand expression.

Our work works for a living and we measure success by tangible design solutions in the marketplace.

Who You Are

Youre humble

Confident in who you are and what youre capable of but equally aware of how you can learn from others and continue to improve.

Youre agile

Aware that work like ours takes myriad different forms and paths unexpectedly shifts on a dime and requires flexible thinking and working plus an unassailably optimistic mindset and youre here for it.

You excel at your craft

Passionate and completely invested in the work you do and driven to do what it takes to make it stand above and constantly improve.

Youre collaborative

You thrive on bringing together colleagues clients and partners to transform individual talents into extraordinary collective achievements through diverse perspectives and expertise.

Most Importantly Youre Uniquely You

Excited by the prospect of coming together with co-workers clients and other partners to turn individual talents into extraordinary collective accomplishments by leveraging the diverse cross-pollination of perspectives and talents.

Most importantly youre uniquely unabashedly unashamedly you.

There is no singular path to a career at FutureBrand. No formula for the perfect strategic design consultant. Because its our differences in background and perspective that make us and the work we do stronger more effective and more meaningful.

What the Role Is

The Strategy Director is an exempt level position at FutureBrand that will develop compelling solutions for some of the worlds best-known brands. You will work closely with talented multi-disciplinary teams to translate business opportunities into persuasive experiences that orchestrate growth for our clients.

At its core this role requires strong powers of observation pattern recognition and analysis. But also more uniquely strength in experience strategy journey mapping storytelling creative copywriting and persuasive presentation. A background in design thinking and working hand-in-hand with creative designers is a definite plus.

• As a Strategy Director you will collaborate to innovatively solve problems and persuasively deliver strategic solutions to a variety of audiences both internal and external. Functionally this means you will lead phases of the work that deliver:

  • Grounding in our clients worlds to comprehend their business situations and subsequent strategic objectives for our work

  • Immersion in the users point of view to understand what their challenges are what they are doing today and what the opportunity is to influence their behavior

  • Deep synthesis of client and desk research to identify relevant key insights opportunities and formulate hypotheses

  • A clear and simple strategic framework based on key insights and opportunities

  • Translation of this strategic framework into actionable and distinctly different creative territories (in collaboration with design)

  • Concept development that is on-strategy and stays true to the insights and strategic direction

• Throughout the development of the work youll need to be able to:

  • Identify and execute the most relevant ways to deliver succinct compelling recommendations to our clients

  • Lead the communication of project narratives nad strategies to internal and external audiences

  • Develop and lead workshop sessions to foster more meaningful internal collaboration and client engagement in projects

  • Partner with research to unearth foundational insights and/or validate hypotheses

  • In general be a thoughtful consultative partner to our clients and internal cross-functional teams

• In addition to project responsibilities you will be tasked with advocating for executing and elevating the FutureBrand strategic process and methodologies

• You will support the training and development of newer Strategy team members

• You will also begin to lead cross-functional handoffs on projects providing direction to team members outside the strategy practice

Contributing to internal culture:

• Socialize new strategy approaches and tactics with the studio

• Ask questions seek clarity about your role and demonstrate ownership of your tasks and deliverables

• Mentor junior-level team members

Knowledge and skills:

• Innate curiosity a desire to figure things out

• Empathy you know how and have a desire to put yourself in other peoples shoes

• Active listening youre always in the moment and engaged

• Expert communication confident and persuasive writing/presentation skills

• Pattern recognition the ability to recognize synergies across disparate qualitative/quantitative sources

• Problem-solving you have excellent natural problem-solving skills and a desire to continuously improve

• Calm as a cucumber a proven ability to deliver under pressure while handling multiple tasks

• Collaboration you work well with others (across cross-functional teams) to accomplish tasks and can take feedback and direction from others

• Flexibility you know how to adapt your approach based on the circumstances in front you and can manage multiple and competing work priorities demands and changes

• Diligence youre organized (in a way that works for you) and have impeccable attention to detail

• Research design youre comfortable designing leading and analyzing qualitative research

• Data Analysis youre comfortable interpreting and analyzing quantitative insights

• Workshopping you have proficiency in planning preparing and facilitating strategy and ideation workshops

• Platforms you have a strong proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite. Proficiency in

• Mural/Miro or other collaborative ideation platforms and Adobe Suite a plus.

What it requires

• A strong desire to create and contribute to an inclusive creative environment.

• Bachelors Degree

• 5-7 years of consulting research or other relevant work experience

• Up to 25% travel

Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

100000 - 110000

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