Senior Strategist

About Us Codeword is a communication agency that helps brands create breakthrough comms, content, and community experiences. We’re a fast-moving team of writers, editors, designers, strategists, videographers, PR mavens, and even a few traditional marketers. Our incredible roster of global brands trust us to launch their startups, run multi-channel campaigns, grow their user bases, and lead comprehensive PR and marketing initiatives. We're storytellers and brand engineers, and we love big ideas that serve a real purpose. Codeword is a remote-first agency, with physical offices in NYC and SF that we won’t make you visit. About You 6+ years of experience in brand strategy, specifically within the tech sector. The "Tech Translator": You have a proven track record in helping both complex enterprise software (B2B) and fast-moving consumer tech (B2C) strategize on how to show up in the world C-Suite Ready: You are comfortable, confident, and articulate when consulting senior executives and sitting in rooms with tech leaders. Hybrid Lead: You’ve partnered with PR and comms teams on how to get clients noticed by key audiences, and you’ve collaborated on content workstreams, knowing how to bridge the gap between earned media and owned content. Very Online: You’re a digital culture enthusiast who understands how trends travel, from TikTok and Reddit, to LinkedIn and the evening news. Opinionated but Collaborative: You have a strong POV on how good work is accomplished, and you know how to bring people along with you. About This Role This Senior Strategist will report to our strategy leadership and serve as the high-level strategic architect for our most ambitious tech clients. You’ll be defining the North Star for brands that are changing the world. You will have the autonomy to execute in a wide range of marketing disciplines, ensuring that a client\'s PR strategy and their content calendar are actually singing from the same songbook. What You’ll Be Doing Executive Advisory: Act as a primary strategic consultant for C-suite tech executives, providing data-driven insights and trend analysis that help them understand what their brand needs to do win their market High-Level Strategy: Develop comprehensive brand, social, and content strategies that integrate paid, owned, and earned media. PR & Content Integration: Autonomously lead strategy across PR and content workstreams to ensure brand consistency and maximum audience and business impact. Narrative and POV-development: Build for brand POVs for clients, aligning their goals and interests with that of key audiences Creative Guidance: Develop inspiring briefs and provide guidance for everything from channel copy to scripts and long-form LinkedIn thought leadership. Business Reviews: Prepare and lead strategy presentations and business reviews that prove the value of our strategic work. Partner closely with the Insights & Analytics teams to deliver high-quality reporting on marketing activity to clients Mentorship: Stay up-to-date on social media trends and to help educate the wider team and keep our work fresh. Compensation Our budget for this role is $85K – $115K depending on experience. Codeword Benefits Flexible work hours Minimum 20 days paid vacation annually 401k + financial wellness support Health Insurance (medical, dental, life, pet, mental health services) Home office allowance Bi-annual Wellness Credits Monthly Technology Credit (to offset internet / phone costs) Comprehensive Parental Leave Policy A Few More Things You Should Know About Codeword The Codeword dream: Make good money doing work you care about with people you like. We love our clients (they write the checks!), which means maintaining a high bar for the creativity, smarts, responsiveness, and communication skills we offer them. We’re around 100 people, big enough to handle large-scale marketing programs, small enough that you’ll have an impact on our culture. We’re a friendly team, we look after each other, and we grow our careers together. We respect everyone’s personal life. After-hours emails are strongly frowned upon, night and weekend work is very rare, and employees are encouraged to pursue their side-hustles. We’re all grownups here, and we trust each other to get the work done, whether at home or in an office or a time zone on the other side of the world. We believe in defaulting to openness. Our calendars, our salary tiers, and our doors are open for all to see. (Except for secret client stuff, which we guard with our lives.) We’re a proud member of the global WE Communications family. Equal Opportunity: Codeword provides equal employment opportunity and doesn’t discriminate against employees or applicants because of age, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, or other legally protected class status. Diversity and Inclusion: Codeword works hard to foster a diverse team and an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives. We aren’t a traditional agency, so we like to hire people who don’t necessarily fit the agency mold or check all the “right” boxes. If you’re on the fence about applying, please do! #J-18808-Ljbffr Codeword LLC