Director of Strategy, Interbrand
$160-210k
3 days a week in office
Global brand consultancy
Open for applications
Global brand consultancy
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$160-210k
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To forge iconic moves for brands through strategy and creativity.
Role
Who you are
- Experience
- Proven reputation within brand strategy, business strategy, or management consulting. You've led significant engagements, built lasting client relationships, developed teams, and delivered work that created measurable business impact
- Strategic thinking
- You diagnose complex challenges, reframe business problems, and build strategies that combine Human Truth, Brand Economics, and Experience. You know how to balance creativity with commercial reality, and you champion ideas from concept through to implementation. You bring robust points of view on categories, markets, and where brands need to go next
- Communication
- You're an exceptional communicator who writes with clarity and conviction, presents with authority, and facilitates sessions that unlock breakthrough thinking. You adapt your approach for different audiences and know how to build buy-in at every level, from working teams to boardrooms
- Collaboration
- You build trust across teams, disciplines, geographies, and cultures. You bring people together around a shared vision, invite diverse perspectives, and elevate the thinking and quality of everyone around you
- Independence and ownership
- You take full accountability for your projects, your relationships, your team, and your contributions to the business. You manage complexity with commercial intelligence, balancing client satisfaction, team wellbeing, and profitability. You do what you say you'll do and inspire confidence in others
- Curiosity
- You have a genuine passion for brands, culture, business, and what's next. You stay ahead of shifts in our industry and adjacent fields, and you bring that thinking into your work and share it generously with others
What the job involves
- You're a strategic leader who shapes how we solve problems, build relationships, and grow our business
- You see opportunity where others see complexity, and you have the commercial confidence and creative judgment to turn ambitious visions into reality
- At Interbrand, you'll lead our most significant strategy engagements, build deep relationships with C-suite clients, and guide multidisciplinary teams to create work that defines the future of iconic brands
- You'll also play a key role in shaping our office, developing our talent, winning new business, and building Interbrand's reputation in the market
- This is a role where your strategic thinking, client relationships, and leadership directly impact our growth and success
- Lead complex, high-stakes strategy engagements for global and regional clients across brand, business, and experience challenges
- Build and maintain deep relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor who understands their business, anticipates their needs, and helps them navigate critical decisions
- Use our Thinking & Making approach and Three Lenses (Human Truth, Brand Economics, Experience) to diagnose what matters, shape bold strategic direction, and ensure ideas are viable, desirable, and ready for the real world
- Present and sell strategic thinking to C-suite audiences with authority, confidence, and conviction
- Lead and develop strategy teams, providing direction, coaching, feedback, and creating an environment where people do their best work
- Identify and pursue commercial opportunities for Interbrand and our clients, thinking like a business partner to maximize mutual value and extend relationships
- Collaborate with designers, writers, client partners, brand economists, principals, and other disciplines globally to deliver integrated solutions
- Collaborate with the Growth team by driving pitches, shaping proposals, building relationships, and helping define our competitive positioning
- Build Interbrand's external profile through thought leadership, speaking, writing, and representing our point of view in the market
- Play an active role in growth strategy, contributing to how we grow, what we prioritize, and how we operate
- Champion Interbrand's culture and values, helping create an environment where people feel supported, challenged, and inspired to do their best work
- Stay ahead of branding, business, and cultural shifts, bringing provocative points of view and helping shape where our craft is going next
Our take
In an age of unprecedented abundance of choice and speed of innovation, customers’ expectations are moving faster than businesses. It takes bold moves — or "Iconic Moves", as Interbrand likes to call them — to leap ahead of customers and competitors.
For more than forty years, Interbrand has been partnering with the world’s leading businesses to create such Iconic Moves that transform perceptions and drive business growth. Interbrand helps its clients captivate new audiences, drive portfolio growth, launch new offers, enhance M&A success, mobilize talent, identify new revenue opportunities, and more.
Interbrand has continuously evolved and adapted to new trends in the digital space, something that is ever relevant given the rapid speed at which technology is evolving. The company invests in identifying these unpredictable factors to offer a forward thinking consulting service that best positions its brands, which include leaders like Apple, Google, and Disney, for maximum success.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health/Vision/Dental Insurance
- Family Forming Benefits
- 401(k)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Annual Education Assistance
- Health and Wellness Discounts
- Spending and Saving Accounts
- Vacation, Sick, and Personal Days
- Paid Parental and Medical Leave
- Life, AD&D and Disability Insurance
- EAP
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Gonzalo Brujó
(Global CEO)Has been at the company since 2003, in positions including Managing Director, Global Chief Growth Officer, and ultimately Global CEO.
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