Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy discipline by establishing clear standards, methodologies, and best practices to enhance work quality and consistency.
- Provide strategic oversight across engagements to ensure insights are meaningful, recommendations are actionable, and deliverables support each partner's goals.
- Coach, develop, and manage strategy team members by offering clarity, feedback, and support for growth and excellent work.
- Serve as a trusted senior advisor and lead facilitator in partner interactions, navigating complex stakeholders and guiding teams toward alignment and confident decisions.
- Collaborate with leaders across disciplines to strengthen integrated delivery, proactively identify risks, and ensure strategy effectively informs creative outcomes.
- Contribute to company growth by supporting business development, identifying opportunities to expand partner relationships, and advancing company-wide priorities.
- Directly manage, coach, and develop members of the strategy team.
- Conduct regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, development planning, and internal meetings as appropriate.
- Establish clear expectations and accountability for strategic excellence.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and career pathing for strategy team members.
- Foster a culture of curiosity, collaboration, candor, and continuous learning.
- Identify growth opportunities and help team members expand their skills and strategic capabilities.
- Serve as the primary leader and advocate for the strategy discipline within the agency.
- Own and evolve the agency's strategic methodologies, frameworks, tools, and best practices.
- Ensure strategic processes are documented, scalable, and consistently applied across engagements.
- Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of strategic work, especially within existing and emerging service lines.
- Develop training, resources, and guidance that elevate the capabilities of the strategy team and agency.
- Partner with the leadership team to continuously refine how strategy integrates into the broader partner experience.
- Help shape and improve agency offerings, services, and strategic deliverables.
- Maintain quality standards and strategic consistency across the agency’s portfolio of work.
- Serve as a senior reviewer for key strategic recommendations, presentations, and deliverables.
- Provide guidance and support to strategists navigating complex partner situations or strategic challenges.
- Ensure strategic recommendations align with partner goals, fundraising objectives, organizational realities, and agency standards.
- Identify emerging trends, opportunities, and innovations that strengthen the agency's strategic offerings.
- Ensure strategic recommendations are grounded in research, informed by stakeholder insights, and aligned with partner goals.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience leading strategy engagements that include research, analysis, insight development, and strategic direction.
- Experience within a brand or creative agency environment is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success developing strategists, evolving methodologies, and guiding complex partner engagements.
- Full-time, remote, salaried position.
- Travel is required.
- Must currently reside in the continental United States.
Nice to Have
- Experience in the nonprofit and fundraising sector is highly valued.
Compensation
Full-time, remote, salaried position commensurate with experience.
Work Arrangement
We are a fully distributed team.
Other
- Travel is required.
- Full-time, remote, salaried position commensurate with experience.
- We are a fully distributed team.
- We only accept applications from candidates currently residing in the continental United States.
- We are committed to building a diverse and passionate team. Women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals are encouraged to apply.
- Parisleaf provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or veteran status.
We only accept applications from candidates currently residing in the continental United States.
