About the role

  • Lead Brand Strategist shaping brand narratives and digital experiences for mission-driven organizations. Collaborate with various teams to build innovative brand strategies and ensure alignment with user experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic engagements from discovery through execution, collaborating with a cross-disciplinary team of UX designers, writers, developers, and project managers.
  • Lead brand discovery process through stakeholder interviews, workshops, brand research, and deliverables.
  • Conduct user and market research to uncover audience motivations, perceptions, and unmet needs.
  • Translate insights into actionable brand strategy deliverables — such as audience personas, brand narratives, voice guidelines, user journeys, value propositions, and brand messaging strategies.
  • Craft brand platforms that define mission, vision, values, personality, tone, and messaging hierarchy in conjunction with creative leads.
  • Collaborate with digital strategy, content, marketing, and design teams to express the brand visually and experientially through sitemaps, wireframes, and content frameworks.
  • Consider new strategic approaches that integrate AI, storytelling, and data-informed insights across channels.
  • Serve as a strategic voice throughout creative development — ensuring alignment between brand intent and user experience.
  • Build strong, collaborative relationships with clients — facilitating workshops, presenting ideas clearly, and guiding decisions with confidence and empathy.
  • Contribute to business development by helping shape proposals, presentations, and new strategic offerings.
  • Continuously identify opportunities to evolve our process and strengthen our strategic impact.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience developing comprehensive, integrated brand strategies.
  • Agency experience is a plus!
  • Experience conducting user research, including online surveys and focus groups.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Experience developing strong client relationships and account growth strategies.
  • Experience generating strategy documentation, including personas, user journeys, competitive analysis, sitemaps, and wireframes.

Benefits

  • Company-sponsored health, vision and dental insurance
  • Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Profit sharing
  • 4 weeks of PTO to start, 5 weeks at year 3
  • Company-paid short-term and long-term disability
  • Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
  • 11 paid holidays
  • 401k with company match
  • New business referral bonus
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Pre-tax DC Metro SmartBenefits

Job title

Lead Brand Strategist

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$110,000 - $130,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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