Senior Director, Strategy

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 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.  

• →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

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