Strategist

Apply Description Plein Air Agency is looking for a mid-level strategist with a creative mind who can find ideas that solve problems for our clients and their customers. The right person will be a student of brands and people, and have experience developing design assets like customer journeys. He or she will be driven, collaborative, and eager to share, debate, and offer new perspectives. Most of all, this person will have the ability to connect with our clients’ customers, understand what motivates them, and help our team create ideas that add value for them. We are a distributed company, so you will have lots of video meetings, but you can work from pretty much anywhere that has good internet. Some travel may be required. Please include a link to a resume and a portfolio to be considered. If your portfolio is in a PDF, a link to a file a Dropbox or Google Drive works as well. Responsibilities Collaborate on brand strategy decks Be comfortable conducting independent research to build creative insights that fuel new ideas Help bring the audience to life for our teams and our clients Participate in developing tactical roadmaps to help our clients plan Create POVs that help our clients understand change Contribute to the overall strategic direction of projects Work with our cross functional teams to create concepts The keys to being good at this job 1. Curious . All ideas come from somewhere. If you’re not feeding yourself with good inputs, then the work will never be as good as it could have been. 2. Super fun . We spend a lot of time working. Let’s not make all that time suck. 3. Self-motivated . We are small and growing, not big and bureaucratic. There will be plenty of times when you just need to figure things out. 4. Ambition . We want people who think they can change the world. 5. Writing skills . Part of your job is the communication of ideas, and that often takes a good writer. Requirements 3-5 of experience in design, marketing, or advertising industries Ambitious, self-motivated and able to work with little supervision Portfolio of creative work or marketing thinking