Senior Strategist

Summary

Join DEPT® as a Senior Strategist and become a strategic driver of client products, services, and experiences. Collaborate with talented colleagues and agency leadership to influence the agency's future direction. As an essential member of the B/D® team, you will work with other senior strategy leaders to produce significant outcomes for clients. The role focuses on product & experience strategy and digital transformation, requiring experience in large-scale digital product and CX strategies. You will contribute to large-scale product and business transformation strategies and lead mid-scale strategy projects. This position requires strong analytical and communication skills, along with experience in strategy, CX, product design, and analytics.

Requirements

• Possess knowledge, communicative, and analytical skills equivalent to those normally obtained through receipt of a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field, or equivalent years of additional related professional experience
• Have minimum 5+ years of experience in strategy, CX, product design, and analytics and have led large strategic projects on numerous occasions
• Have working knowledge of UX best practices and experience bringing digital strategies to life

Responsibilities

• Be a strategic driver of our clients’ products, services, and experiences to ensure ultimate success for some of the best brands on earth
• Partner with talented colleagues and agency leadership to influence the future direction and reputation of the agency through the work you do every day
• Collaborate with other senior strategy leaders and colleagues from other disciplines to produce outcomes that represent a significant step change for our clients’ businesses and brands
• Contribute to large-scale digital product and CX strategies that create genuinely differentiated products, services, and systems
• Apply critical analysis to various sources of data and analytics in order to distill meaningful insights for our teams and clients
• Develop roadmaps for digital ecosystems
• Help make things that are new and interesting, not just sensible
• Distill complicated things into simple ideas, and transform simple ideas into inspiring creative and design opportunities
• Contribute to large-scale product, service, brand, and business transformation strategies
• Lead mid-scale strategy projects focused on experience design and D2C channels
• Audit existing brand channels and products to identify gaps and areas for optimization
• Provide informed opinions on how to achieve specific outcomes by using both empirical research and your subjective expertise
• Build presentations and lead share-outs, check-ins, and presentations to colleagues and day-to-day clients
• Design, implement, and analyze primary research across a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies
• Conduct user testing to help identify insights and opportunities for experience optimization
• Mine primary and secondary data sources for insights
• Work across all departments of BASIC, the client, and other stakeholders to achieve the desired results and meet the objectives of the company
• Take on other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Benefits

• Money
• Full benefits including medical, dental, and vision
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Paid holidays and vacations
• Amazing clients to work with
• Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
• 401k plan, plus matching
• PTO
• Paid Company Holidays
• Parental Leave