Strategy Director

1 month ago
Full-time
Lead
Product Management
Instrument

Instrument

Instrument is a multidisciplinary creative agency that specializes in design and technology, helping brands unlock their full potential by building scalable brand systems and products that leverage emerging behaviors and technologies.

Media
251-1K
Founded 2005

Description

  • Shape strategic vision and craft across multiple client engagements and portfolios.
  • Serve as senior strategic lead on complex or high-impact accounts.
  • Ensure strategic rigor, clarity, and coherence from discovery through delivery.
  • Guide teams through ambiguity and complexity with sound judgment.
  • Define and evolve standards, frameworks, and ways of working for strong strategy.
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior and executive client stakeholders.
  • Partner with account leadership to identify and grow new opportunities.
  • Present strategic recommendations with confidence and influence.
  • Hire, manage, and develop strategists across levels.
  • Set expectations for performance, growth, accountability, and team health.
  • Support new business efforts, pitches, and strategic framing.
  • Contribute to internal learning, workshops, and knowledge sharing.
  • Stay curious about emerging tools and technologies, including AI, and apply them thoughtfully.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of strategy experience, including work for both large and small brands.
  • 3+ years of experience leading a small strategy team.
  • Broad strategy experience across digital, brand, content, UX/UI, marketing, and business consulting.
  • Deeper expertise in 2 or more strategy areas.
  • Experience using qualitative and quantitative research frameworks and techniques to generate insights.
  • Experience designing and leading workshops for senior to C-suite clients using strategic design-thinking frameworks.
  • Experience working closely with large, multidisciplinary teams.
  • Advanced fluency in research, synthesis, facilitation, and executive storytelling tools.
  • Confidence using planning, resourcing, and collaboration systems to manage complex portfolios.
  • Leadership in adopting tools and methods that scale strategic excellence.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work environment.
  • Competitive base salary of $150,000-$210,000 in US Region 3.
  • 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.
  • Robust medical, vision, and accident insurance.
  • Generous paid holidays and unlimited PTO.
  • Sabbaticals.
  • Monthly wellbeing stipend.
  • Career management and leadership training.

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