Senior Strategist

The role

We are looking to hire an ambitious Senior Strategist who is intellectually curious and culturally connected; who can develop inspiring strategies that deliver against our vision of putting social thinking at the heart of marketing; and contribute to the development of world-class ideas worth talking about.

Key to the role will be the ability to develop and draw the dots between brand strategy, comms strategy and content strategy.

The Senior Strategist will work closely with clients and the internal teams to provide strategic leadership. Help to define clear marketing goals, develop strategies for achieving the goals, contribute to and nurture great ideas, and help measure the performance and drive optimisation of strategies over time.

Key responsibilities:

Strategy & Trend Development >

• You understand the world of brand, digital and social marketing, including deep knowledge of platforms and social media. You spot and leverage trends to surface powerful insights and develop effective strategies
• You develop strategic frameworks and wrangle data, to analyse performance and draw clear and compelling conclusions

Teamwork and Relationship Management >

• You work closely with a lot of departments and you need to bring people together in order to achieve our vision, and set ourselves apart from our competitors.
• Together with the account teams and creatives you develop strategies, write briefs and help develop strong socially-led ideas. 
• You collaborate with our Research and Insight team to develop measurement frameworks and help to design research methodologies to track the performance of our activity

New Business/Commercial Activities >

• You contribute to new business efforts through marketing initiatives and pitching
• You are a curious and creative thinker, astute when it comes to identifying insights and able to craft inspiring briefs for our potential clients.

While the specific content of your role is clearly defined, the nature of the demands placed on us by our clients means that this role will evolve over time and needs a ‘can do’ approach.

Your skills and experience:

• You have a minimum of 8 years experience in strategy, in leading creative agencies. 
• You are adept with sourcing and crunching data to surface insights, working independently and being an original thinker who shares your knowledge and insight. 
• An irrepressible passion for social and continued learning.
• You can build and maintain strong relationships internally and externally, based on credibility and trust. 
• You are a clear and confident communicator, able to craft a strong narrative and present persuasively.
• Other people will describe you as creative, curious, collaborative, proactive, resourceful, flexible, open, accountable, and someone who always acts with integrity. 
• You are an enthusiast and energetic personality that likes to contribute to the agency culture. 

Who is We Are Social?

We Are Social is a socially-led creative agency: Over 1000 social experts in 15 offices around the world proving the power of social thinking to drive business value. Here in Sydney, we are a group of people from different walks of life, united by a passion for popular culture. We love to help smart brands immerse their stories in the real conversations their audience are having. How do we do that?

We put social thinking at the centre of what we do.

We connect people and brands in meaningful ways.

We create ideas worth talking about.

We Are Social.

At We Are Social we love diversity of thought and experience. That’s why we like to welcome the unique voices and talents that haven’t been traditionally embraced by advertising. Learn more about our culture and our work.