80Twenty is a boutique marketing recruitment agency that connects high-growth companies with exceptional candidates.
Our client is a full-service marketing agency built by senior operators who work closely with their clients to solve complex business challenges through strategy and creative execution. The agency prioritizes deep, intimate knowledge of each client's industry over broad, generalist service, and is known for translating strategic thinking into measurable business outcomes. The team operates with a strong internal culture centered on ownership, collaboration, and mutual accountability.
The agency is hiring a Director of Strategy to serve as its lead strategic thinker across the client portfolio. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role for someone who wants to do the strategic work directly rather than manage a team. The Director will lead research and insight development, shape brand positioning and messaging, and act as a trusted advisor to senior client leaders. This person will also play a key role in helping the agency win and grow business, partnering closely with account, creative, and operations teams throughout every engagement. Reporting to the CEO, with close partnership across Client Services, Creative, and Operations.
Responsibilities
- Develop brand positioning, messaging frameworks, and value propositions for clients
- Build customer journeys, audience strategies, and go-to-market plans
- Create campaign, content, and channel strategies that connect business goals to marketing execution
- Design and lead qualitative and quantitative research efforts, including stakeholder and executive interviews
- Translate research and market analysis into clear, actionable strategic recommendations
- Lead strategy workshops and discovery sessions with senior client leaders
- Present recommendations directly to CMOs and other business executives
- Partner with Account and Operations on project scoping, staffing, and estimates
- Support new business pitches, proposal development, and annual client growth planning
- Bring new thinking, methodologies, and AI-enabled approaches into the agency's strategic practice
Requirements:
- 8 to 12+ years of experience in brand strategy, marketing strategy, or strategic planning within a marketing, branding, or advertising agency
- Deep experience developing brand positioning, messaging frameworks, and integrated marketing strategies
- Experience leading research, stakeholder interviews, and insight development
- Strong understanding of B2B marketing, particularly complex buying environments
- Experience facilitating executive workshops and presenting to senior client leaders, including CMOs and business executives
- Demonstrated ability to translate research into strategic recommendations that inform creative direction
- Experience contributing to new business efforts, proposals, and client growth planning
- Comfort working independently in a fast-moving environment is a plus
Compensation & Benefits
$175,000. Full benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage, plus savings accounts. 401k with company match. Flexible paid time off. Fully remote, with preference for candidates based in Eastern or Central time zones.