Strategist

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We’re looking for a Digital Strategist to help develop digital strategies and experiences for a global sports brand. This role combines research, insights, strategic thinking, and hands-on problem solving to help teams understand what people need, identify meaningful opportunities, and translate those opportunities into clear strategic direction across a fast-moving global brand ecosystem.

You’ll work closely with the Digital Strategy Director and multidisciplinary teams across creative, UX, design, technology, content, media, account, and production to support strategy from discovery through execution. You’ll contribute to research, workshops, strategic frameworks, briefs, customer journeys, digital roadmaps, and recommendations that help teams make better decisions.

The ideal candidate is a curious and analytical strategist who is genuinely interested in how people behave, how digital experiences shape relationships with brands, and how technology, culture, and sport influence consumer expectations. You’re comfortable digging into research and data, developing a point of view, communicating your thinking clearly, and collaborating with teams to turn strategy into meaningful work.

Location: Portland, OR (Hybrid): This is a hybrid role based in Portland, Oregon, requiring onsite presence at our client's office 1–2 days per week.

Responsibilities:

• Support the development of digital strategies across websites, platforms, products, campaigns, content ecosystems, and other digital experiences for a prominent global athletic brand.
• Conduct research into audiences, customer behaviors, market dynamics, competitors, culture, sport, technology, and relevant digital trends.
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative research into clear insights, implications, and strategic recommendations.
• Help identify audience needs, business challenges, experience opportunities, and areas for digital improvement.
• Develop audience profiles, journey maps, experience principles, channel recommendations, and other strategic frameworks as appropriate to the work.
• Support strategic discovery through stakeholder interviews, workshops, audits, research, and analysis.
• Help translate business and customer objectives into clear strategic briefs, requirements, and opportunities for creative and digital teams.
• Partner with the Digital Strategy Director to develop strategic recommendations, presentations, roadmaps, and points of view.
• Collaborate with UX, design, creative, technology, content, media, account, and production teams to ensure strategic thinking informs the work throughout development.
• Participate in creative and experience development, providing strategic perspective and helping teams evaluate ideas against audience needs and business objectives.
• Analyze digital experiences and customer journeys to identify gaps, opportunities, and recommendations for improvement.
• Help connect digital strategy to relevant performance data, research, measurement, and business outcomes.
• Develop clear, compelling presentations and strategic documents that communicate research, insights, recommendations, and strategic direction.
• Participate in client meetings, workshops, presentations, and working sessions, contributing strategic thinking and recommendations as appropriate.
• Bring cultural and consumer perspectives into the work, with particular attention to the ways sport, community, identity, and lifestyle influence audiences and brand relationships. 
• Monitor developments in digital platforms, emerging technologies, AI, sport, fashion, culture, consumer behavior, and relevant industries and translate useful developments into strategic opportunities.
• Maintain clear documentation of research, insights, strategic decisions, recommendations, and project requirements.
• Help establish and improve strategy processes, frameworks, tools, and ways of working across projects.
• Share knowledge, research, and strategic perspectives with other strategists and multidisciplinary team members.

About You

The essentials:

• 3+ years of experience in digital strategy, brand strategy, marketing strategy, customer experience, UX strategy, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience conducting research and translating findings into meaningful insights and strategic recommendations.
• Strong understanding of digital experiences, customer journeys, audience behavior, and the role of digital channels in supporting brand and business objectives.
• Experience developing strategic briefs, audience insights, journey maps, experience principles, channel recommendations, or similar strategic deliverables.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to identify patterns, synthesize information, and develop clear points of view.
• Ability to combine qualitative and quantitative inputs to understand audiences, business challenges, and digital opportunities.
• Strong understanding of digital platforms, content, technology, UX, and creative development and how these disciplines work together.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across strategy, creative, UX, design, technology, content, media, and production.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate strategic thinking clearly and concisely.
• Experience developing presentations and communicating insights and recommendations to clients or internal stakeholders.
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear and compelling narratives.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, research assignments, and competing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage complex information while maintaining focus on the larger strategic objective.
• Ability to work independently on assigned workstreams while collaborating closely with senior strategists and multidisciplinary teams.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies, AI, digital platforms, cultural trends, and evolving consumer behaviors.
• Strong interest in understanding how people interact with brands, products, services, and digital experiences.
• Genuine interest in sports and an understanding of how sport can intersect with culture, identity, community, and consumer behavior.
• Experience working in an advertising, creative, digital, consulting, or similarly fast-paced environment preferred.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Experience developing digital strategy for sports, athletic, apparel, footwear, fashion, lifestyle, retail, or other culturally relevant consumer brands.
• Genuine passion for sports and a strong understanding of the role sport plays in culture, identity, community, and consumer behavior.
• Experience working with large-scale global brands or complex digital ecosystems.
• Experience across e-commerce, product launches, seasonal campaigns, or high-traffic consumer digital experiences.
• Experience working across global markets, audiences, and distributed teams.
• Experience connecting digital strategy to broader brand, cultural, social, or community strategies.
• Experience contributing to pitches, proposals, new business development, or account growth.
• Experience applying AI or emerging technologies to digital strategy, research, experience development, or strategic workflows.

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance - more about our coverage here !
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network 
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here !)

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range:

$85,000—$95,000 USD

About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery—taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.
 
This commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.