Context

TranslationBrooklyn, NY
Hybrid

About The Position

We are an award-winning independent creative solutions company that aspires to be the most culturally-influential company in the world. We help ambitious brands harness the power of culture to solve their biggest challenges. As a unique mix of experts in culture, technology, and storytelling, we are united by a passion to grow brands in ways that advertising alone can never do. We are an entrepreneurial business — not a traditional "ad agency." That means we value resourcefulness and tenacity just as much as we value creativity and intelligence. We're unapologetically ambitious. We are looking for talented Context Planners to join Translation. Translation+ is our pre-vetted bench of elite freelance talent — the people we call on first when our core team is at capacity or a project demands a very specific skill set. This isn't a cold roster of names we found on a platform. This is a curated circle of trusted collaborators who we know, whose work we believe in, and who we treat as a true extension of our team.

Requirements

  • Understand how culture moves through media.
  • Ability to influence cultural intelligence and world-building.
  • Ability to influence talent casting.
  • Ability to influence 360º media strategy.
  • Ability to influence go-to-market plans.
  • Ability to define what should be considered media.
  • Senior planners: ability to lead multi-agency ecosystems and client relationships.
  • Mid-level planners: ability to build channel strategies and translate insight into action.
  • Emerging planners: ability to develop craft.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience in a hybrid discipline between Strategy and Creative.
  • Experience choreographing ideas and diffusing them through culture.

Responsibilities

  • Influence cultural intelligence and world-building.
  • Influence talent casting.
  • Influence 360º media strategy.
  • Influence go-to-market plans.
  • Define what should be considered media.
  • Lead multi-agency ecosystems and client relationships (for senior planners).
  • Build channel strategies (for mid-level planners).
  • Translate insight into action (for mid-level planners).
  • Develop craft (for emerging planners).

Benefits

  • Rates grounded in our full-time salary bands.
  • Opportunities to work on projects with ambitious brands.
  • Be treated as a true extension of the team.
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