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Senior Director, Strategy

New York

About Interbrand

Interbrand understands what it takes today to build the world’s most iconic brands.

To support our clients in an ever more complex and fascinating world, we have renewed our commitment to both common global standards and greater empowerment, experimentation and entrepreneurialism.

Interbrand is its people. We are a global team of highly diverse thinkers, makers and collaborators. We are proud of our heritage and often regarded as the university of branding. Over the past four decades, we have pioneered iconic work and invented many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace.

In collaboration with many of the world’s leading brands, we are pioneering the future of brand building. In a world where people’s expectations are moving faster than businesses, we give our clients the confidence to make Iconic Moves that create desire and utility, reshape the competitive landscape and drive extraordinary results.

The Interbrand Best Global Brands study/rankings are resources to our clients and the industry, providing proprietary data and insight for our role as client partner and commentator. We have published 18 books on brands and are often the reference point for university curriculum and professional associations. Today, through our own Academy, we aim to be the most impactful learning environment in the marketing world.

Our Behaviours

Our culture is informed by a set of behaviours we co-created as a business. Our behaviours give us space to experiment, permission to speak out, and a model of leadership that anyone in the business can adopt. Our behaviours are Lead with love, Be Brave, Listen First and Make it happen. We are proud of our behaviours. They make us, us.  

The opportunity
You're a highly reputable strategic leader who shapes our discipline, our business, and the future of brand building. You set the standard for how we think, how we work, and what we deliver. You have the authority and experience to counsel the most senior clients, develop the next generation of strategists, and drive the growth and reputation of Interbrand.

At Interbrand, you'll lead our most transformational engagements, build relationships that define our client portfolio, and play a critical role in setting the strategic direction of the business. You'll work alongside peers and the Chief Strategy Officer to shape what strategy means at Interbrand, champion our point of view externally, and create the conditions for our teams to produce their most iconic work.

This is a role where your thinking, relationships, and leadership shape the trajectory of our business and our people.

What you'll be doing

  • Lead our most complex and strategically significant client engagements, often across multiple workstreams, geographies, and disciplines
  • Build and steward relationships with our most important clients at the highest executive levels, acting as a counselor who shapes their strategic agenda and unlocks long-term partnership value
  • Use our Thinking & Making approach and Three Lenses (Human Truth, Brand Economics, Experience) to push provocative discussions, challenge conventional thinking, and ensure our strategies create transformational impact
  • Present and influence at the highest levels with authority, charisma, and conviction, building confidence in our ideas and our approach
  • Lead, mentor, and develop senior strategy talent, providing counsel that allows them to produce outstanding work and grow into their full potential
  • Shape the strategic direction of the office or region, working with leadership to set priorities, build capabilities, and drive both qualitative and quantitative growth goals
  • Drive significant new business by building market relationships, leading major pitches, identifying strategic opportunities, and helping define our competitive positioning
  • Represent Interbrand externally through speaking, writing, media, industry events, and conferences, building our reputation and attracting future talent and clients
  • Contribute to Interbrand's global thought leadership and evolving methodology, helping shape where our discipline and our offer are going next
  • Champion a culture of feedback, accountability, and excellence, role modeling the behaviors that make Interbrand a place where people do their best work
  • Collaborate with global leadership, discipline heads, and principals to shape how we work, what we prioritize, and how we grow as a business
  • Stay consistently ahead of market shifts, competitive movements, and where the economy and culture are heading, bringing strategic foresight that positions Interbrand and our clients for what's next

 

What we're looking for

Experience
Lead portfolios of clients, overseen a large team and, or been in either a Head of or regional role previously. You've built a reputation for exceptional strategic thinking, led transformational client engagements, developed senior talent, and played a significant role in growing a business.

Strategic thinking
You're a provocative thinker who constantly pushes the boundaries of what strategy can be. You diagnose what truly matters, reframe the conversation, and build strategies that combine Human Truth, Brand Economics, and Experience in ways that create lasting competitive advantage. You champion breakthrough ideas and know how to make them real.

Communication
You communicate with authority and presence. You write with conviction, present with charisma, and facilitate conversations that unlock transformational thinking. You adapt seamlessly to any audience and know how to inspire confidence, build consensus, and move people to action.

Collaboration
You build deep trust across the organization and with clients. You bring people together around ambitious visions, elevate the thinking of everyone around you, and create environments where diverse perspectives lead to breakthrough outcomes.

Independence and ownership
You take full accountability for your clients, your teams, and your contribution to the business. You balance strategic ambition with commercial reality, ensuring client satisfaction, team growth, and business profitability. You set the example for what ownership looks like.

Curiosity
You have an insatiable curiosity about brands, culture, business, and what's emerging. You stay ahead of where the world is going and bring that foresight into everything you do. You're passionate about the evolution of our craft and committed to shaping its future.

Why Interbrand

For over 50 years, we've been shaping the world's most iconic brands. We solve brand challenges through our Thinking & Making approach, combining Human Truth, Brand Economics, and Experience to help our clients make the moves that unlock growth and define what's next.

We nurture a global community of thinkers and makers with the curiosity and confidence to create iconic work. Here, you'll find transparent career pathways, on-demand learning, honest feedback, real collaboration across borders, and a culture that champions difference and wellbeing.

We don't do ordinary. And we don't expect you to either.

Comp: $210k-$260k

 

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