- Salary
- $10k – $125k
- Location
- New York
- Department
- Strategy
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
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 strategist who turns complexity into clarity and insight into action. You see the signal in the noise, ask better questions, and aren't afraid to challenge the brief.
At Interbrand, you'll work across teams on brand, business, and experience projects for some of the world's most ambitious organizations. You’ll be exposed to clients in market, presenting powerful ideas to strengthen relationships and mentor junior members of the team to ensure we nurture the future talent.
You'll bring ideas, challenge assumptions, and execute your work to the highest standard, contributing thinking to make iconic work and elevate brands.
What you'll be doing
- Apply Interbrand's Thinking & Making approach and Three Lenses (Human Truth, Brand Economics, Experience) to solve client challenges and build strategies that connect across disciplines
- Bring in Arenas thinking and Three Lenses frameworks to diagnose what matters most and shape strategies that unlock growth
- Contribute to strategy projects, doing the deep work, synthesizing research, data, and insights into clear narratives and recommendations
- Diagnose and reframe client challenges, spot opportunities others miss, and bring a point of view that shifts the conversation
- Craft sharp, persuasive presentations and deliver them with confidence to client stakeholders
- Travel to client site building rapport, trust and signaling true partnership
- Collaborate seamlessly with creative, client service, and analytics teams to deliver integrated solutions
- Host internal work sessions to boost ideation across departments and practice facilitation skills
- Mentor junior strategists working hands on to show them our frameworks, provide thoughtful feedback, and help raise the quality of thinking across the team
- Track category innovation and cultural shifts
- Collate, filter and present market cultural knowledge, trends and innovations as a monthly email bulletin or newsletter to clients
- Balance multiple projects, meet deadlines, manage budgets, and ensure client satisfaction
- Be part of our rich and active internal sharing forums for inspiration and innovation
What we're looking for
Experience
You've worked on complex challenges and know how to navigate ambiguity either in agencies or within consultancies.
Strategic thinking
You synthesize information, research, data, trends and turn it into frameworks and narratives that guide decision-making. You're comfortable leading research, facilitating workshops, and building strategies from scratch.
Communication
You write clearly and persuasively. You present confidently. You adapt your style to different audiences.
Collaboration
You thrive working with people from different disciplines and cultures. You know when to lead, when to listen, and how to bring out the best in others.
Independence and ownership
You take initiative, manage your time, and deliver high-quality work even when juggling multiple priorities.
Curiosity
You stay sharp by reading, learning, and paying attention to the world around you.
Comp: $100,00-$125,000
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.
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