Strategy Director
About The Position
Thesis is an independent agency working at the intersection of creativity, strategy, and technology. It partners with ambitious brands to solve complex business and marketing challenges and create scalable ideas, experiences, and systems. The agency is evolving how it works to bring thinking and making closer together, build more accountable teams, and use technology and AI to expand creative possibilities. The Strategy Director is a senior strategic leader and hands-on craftsperson who shapes and delivers high-impact work across accounts. The role owns strategic vision for high-value programs, translating brand identity, cultural insights, retail mechanics, and data into actionable plans while contributing directly to the work. It integrates strategy with creative, media, and client teams to advance ideas, solve complex problems, and improve deliverables. The Strategy Director also mentors and develops strategists, builds scalable frameworks, and helps ensure strategic thinking is executed to deliver measurable impact. This is a client-facing role that leads strategic storytelling for client engagements and growth opportunities. The position uses a hybrid work model, with in-office collaboration Tuesday through Thursday and remote work Mondays and Fridays. Thesis prioritizes candidates based in the Portland Metro area for this arrangement, and travel of up to 25% is expected.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in brand, content, communications, or retail strategy.
- 3–5+ years managing or mentoring strategic talent.
- Proven experience delivering strategy across brand architecture, positioning, campaign mechanics, content ecosystems, and digital performance.
- Ability to synthesize quantitative data and qualitative insights into a clear, compelling strategic direction.
- Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills, with the ability to build client confidence in strategic ideas.
- Ability to lead multiple workstreams and guide multidisciplinary teams through ambiguity with clarity and accountability.
- Collaborative, low-ego approach and interest in mentoring strategic talent.
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, psychology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to use standard office equipment, computers, and related technology.
- Ability to sit for extended periods, keyboard, and use a computer mouse.
- Ability to bend, reach, lift, push, and pull up to 25 pounds.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.
Nice To Haves
- Candidates based in the Portland Metro area are prioritized for the hybrid work arrangement.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the strategic lead on key accounts, multidisciplinary initiatives, and high-value programs.
- Translate brand identity, audience insights, and data into clear, actionable plans for clients and internal teams.
- Develop brand platforms, campaign strategies, messaging frameworks, and content ecosystems that drive measurable business impact.
- Apply retail strategy experience to inform and strengthen brand and campaign work.
- Align creative, performance, media, and client leadership teams around shared strategic goals and direction.
- Translate complex research, qualitative insights, and data into compelling briefs and messaging strategies.
- Partner with cross-functional leads to maintain strategic cohesion, execution rigor, and alignment from planning through reporting.
- Integrate insights and measurement across planning, execution, and reporting cycles.
- Build scalable frameworks and systems for strategy collaboration and cross-disciplinary alignment.
- Identify opportunities to improve agency strategy processes, frameworks, and deliverables.
- Balance strategic ambition with scope, timing, resources, and client realities.
- Mentor, manage, and develop strategists and emerging strategic leaders across accounts and projects.
- Set a high strategic standard while staying closely involved in shaping and elevating the work.
- Build strategy teams that can increasingly operate with ownership and autonomy.
- Lead strategic storytelling and presentations for client meetings, quarterly planning, and senior leadership engagements.
- Serve as a trusted strategic lead for high-priority client relationships.
- Lead strategic storytelling and framing for new business efforts, pitches, and growth opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
