Social Media Strategist

About the position

We are looking for a Senior Strategist to join our growing strategy team. This is a team of brand thinkers with a deep passion for social because it’s where culture and audience insights take off. This is a client facing role for someone who lives to solve business problems through collaboration. Creative briefs are their love language and slides make them happy.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Research and Insights, Culture Comms and Creative to define how a brand shows up and wins in culture
• Adapt current skills to agency style of strategy work
• Develop creative brief independently, leading quick-turn research to unlock competitive, category and audience insights
• Quickly develop the skills to create a variety of strategic deliverables such as: research brief, roll-out plans, tactical briefs, channel strategies, campaign frameworks, social playbooks, creator strategies, POVs, etc.
• Keep up with key industry trends and social platform updates with passion and curiosity
• Present to clients with confidence and clarity
• Be able to give creative feedback effectively
• Mentor more junior teammates
• Possess a commitment to selling work and connecting the dots from strategy to creative
• Grow relationship with day-to-day clients and find areas to push work, clarify deliverables, and identify gaps

Requirements

• 5+ years previous creative agency experience in a strategic role
• A passion for simplifying complex problems into clear and compelling POVs
• Ability to work on strategic responses to client briefs with minimal oversight
• Ability to elevate thinking beyond tactics to bigger, bolder ways in
• Ability to translate research and data into meaningful insights
• Proficiency in research and social listening tools

Nice-to-haves

• A passion for sports culture and fandom on the internet is preferred
• Traditional agency experience is not required, but it’s a plus

Benefits

• Passport program to explore and work from one of our 18 other offices worldwide
• Celebration of wins and losses as a learning opportunity
• Passion for making a difference through initiatives like carbon offsets and community kitchens
• Great snacks provided in the office