Senior Strategist

Company: Touch Worldwide
Location: Seattle
Posted on: May 16, 2022

Job Description:

Job DescriptionSalary: Seeking curiosity-driven Senior Strategist who balances blue-sky creativity with pragmatic action. Touch is a values-led, forward-thinking creative agency. We're a unique company, with integrated disciplines encompassing creative strategy, communications, design, video, and event production. We help brands and organizations communicate their vision and make lasting change through experiences that we design and create together—and our definition of experience ranges far and wide, from gatherings of thousands of employees at a live (or virtual) event to beautiful print or digital work to compelling video stories. We are looking for a multi-faceted, well-spoken, big-picture thinker and do-er. Our ideal strategist can work creatively and collaboratively within ambiguity to help our clients and our team get clear on a path toward action—then support the execution of a fresh, intentional approach. Might that be you? At Touch, our small, nimble strategy team is responsible for identifying and developing insights that inform the strategic intent of our cross-functional creative efforts. Read on for more details, and to apply, please provide a brief cover letter, resume, and one example of relevant work (i.e., a pitch deck, a writing sample, or a creative brief). We look forward to hearing from you.This positionAs a Senior Strategist, you are part of the strategy team, working across multiple projects with cross-discipline teams at Touch to deliver relevant, compelling, and meaningful work for our clients. Touch's approach is driven by insights, and strategic thinking provides the foundation for our creative communications and experience design work. You will do this through research, synthesizing inputs, and articulating key concepts. You will help orient our project work in a client's key business objectives and a deep understanding of audiences and their mindset. You will also use strategic insights to inform the approach to content, creative, communications strategy, and experiences. You will create frameworks, generate new content, and evaluate and proofread existing content. In addition, you will provide insights, strategic guidance, and maintain clear concise effective communications and contributions. In this role, you will partner most with the strategy and client service teams, as well as our creative, video, and admin teams. You will also work closely with our clients—at all levels, including executive level and C-suite, across investor relations, finance, marketing, and communications teams and across a variety of project types. Why should you be excited about this role? You have an innate curiosity--about businesses and organizations across sectors, about the worlds our clients and their stakeholders operate in. You are curious about people and how various audience groups experience the world. You are passionate about clarity, context, and the power of story to shift perceptions and change behaviors. You are a clear communicator who can synthesize a variety of inputs into an output that aligns, informs, and inspires. You are a hard but efficient worker, and you find time to have fun with colleagues. You have a life outside of work and you want to maintain a healthy balance.

This position reports to the Director of Strategy.We will start reviewing applications in November with the goal to fill the position by the end of 2021. This position will start in January 2022.Responsibilities

• Support the strategy team, project teams, and client teams in contributing clear and relevant client and/or industry insights as part of project kickoffs and ongoing project planning
• Champion the use of strategic insights to guide the development of project deliverables across the life of the project, and beyond
• Actively contribute to a project team—including designers and producers—by contributing to foundational research, guidance, and content frameworks that inform the project
  • Develop and articulate the project strategy by collaborating across all of our teams and communicating with clients at all levels, which can take many shapes: research, conversations, pitch decks, whiteboards, case studies, virtual and in-person workshops
    • Synthesize and organize information for a variety of internal and external audiences, including content systems, investor or business segment presentations, websites, collateral systems etc.
    • Generate clear and concise written communication in a variety of forms to accomplish a specific purpose or objective
    • Develop or direct development of presentations or written communications in the client's voice, or the voice of client organization as needed Skills and Qualifications
      • A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field
      • At least 7 years of relevant professional experience such as business, marketing, or communications (agency work is great, but not required—tell us about your most interesting role)
      • Strong communication skills, written, verbal, and visual
      • Ability to synthesize a variety of inputs--quickly, concisely, and accurately, and articulate a meaningful POV
      • Collaborate effectively; good interpersonal skills that play well in a team environment
      • Intermediate level experience with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, and Excel are required), Dropbox, and other digital tools (social media savvy a plus)
      • Motivation to improve internal workflow processes and standards, and willingness to tackle the occasional administrative task
      • Familiarity with these disciplines is useful: brand strategy, creative design, content strategy, social media, public relations, investor relations, finance or event planning
      • Familiarity with these disciplines is desired: investor relations, marketing, finance Work Environment and Conditions
        • Full-Time, Exempt position
        • Eligible for benefits
        • Monday-Friday with occasional evenings and weekends required (project-dependent)
        • During the pandemic, all employees work from home unless required to be onsite for an event; advanced notification will be given for onsite or in-office visits as well as site visits.
        • 10% Travel is required.
        • While performing the duties of this job on an event site, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, crowded sets, loud noises, and floors with physical obstacles
        • While working in the office at Touch the noise level is usually quiet to moderate with people moving through the work area frequentlyPhysical Requirements *
          • Communicate verbally
          • Often required to sit and use hands and fingers
          • Occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, bend, squat, or crawl
          • May need to lift and/or manage up to 50 lbs. while onsite* Reasonable accommodation can be requested in the application or hiring process, to the job, to the way the job is done, or the work environment that allows a person with a disability who is qualified for the job to perform the essential job functions perform the described essential functions. All employees must comply with Touch and client-mandated Covid-19 safety protocols.Touch Worldwide is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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