We would like a Sr Creative Strategist to become a vocal and influential voice for the Creative Strategy team across the agency. This role will be the equivalent to the Senior Account Manager level, with 3 + years strategy experience.

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Role and Responsibilities

The ideal Sr Creative Strategist has 3 + years strategy experience, comes from a Strategic Planner or Strategist background and will work on all elements of strategy across all accounts as well as new business efforts.

We expect the team and this role to always be turning over every rock, reading the latest trend news, keeping up with brand/marketing and social culture and genuinely wondering “what’s next” and “where can I help out”. We’re an extremely close team made up of people across different backgrounds who are all genuinely passionate about the work, from top to bottom, and are always willing to lend a hand, brain, idea or dad joke (when needed).

You’ll be

• Unstoppably curious
• Strategic with a heavy creative lean
• Agile enough to work across several accounts/brands at the same time
• Persistent and vocal, not afraid to speak up and give a POV
• Highly collaborative but also okay to fly solo
• A thinker and a doer
• A culture and trends sponge
• A contributor to team morale
• A lifelong learner

Responsibilities include:

• Research: You will have extensive experience in what we call “smart” research. Whether through primary or secondary, knowing what questions and hypotheses will get you to the stickiest insights is crucial. Sometimes you’ll be partnering with the research team and should know how to provide a juicy research brief and/or be able to dive in alongside them and help where needed. We don’t like to boil the ocean, so finding the right balance of audit vs analysis is important.
• Insight development: You’ll learn our process and become a master of it – especially in the realm of insights. You should have experience in writing fresh insights based on research, industry knowledge, human behavior and other stimuli that lead to great work. You should also have the listening skills of a therapist – hearing a tension or an insight-in-hiding just waiting to be pulled out of a group brainstorm or conversation.
• Ideation: Our Creative Strategy team and the Creative development team work together closely. You should be able to bridge the distance between strategy and creative and be able to flex the ideation muscle. Coming up with platforms, campaigns, tactics, messaging should all be within your wheelhouse.
• New Business: You’ll have experience leading or co-leading pitches from a creative perspective. Often times we’ll balance more than one pitch while working across several accounts so being able to brain-flex from one brief to another in a day is important.
• Client management: You’ll be interacting with clients and should be able to sell in creative strategy as well as ideas. You’ll have experience in managing tough clients who push back and question the work, ultimately being able to coach them in the right direction or pivot where needed.
• Writing and presentation skills: What’s a story if no one can understand it? You should be able to write up an approach, insights, or creative frameworks easily and should be able to present comfortably to senior internal teams as well as clients. Extreme attention to detail, an understanding of storytelling techniques and creative writing should all be your bread and butter.

A little about H+K

H+K Strategies is one of the world’s largest and most renowned communications firms, with more than 85 offices around the globe.

At H+K here in the U.S., our first priority is our people and creating an experience for each employee that is positive and fulfilling. Do you like being able to work from anywhere and in a way that is best for your life? Come join us at H+K. Do you like working for the industry’s most exciting clients and supporting headline-grabbing programs? Come join us at H+K. Do you like working with nice people? Come join us at H+K. Do you like industry-best benefits, vacation time, wellness time and parental leave? You guessed it, come join us at H+K.

Come join us at H+K. Where we believe in the power of “Being” everything that our employees need us to be – creating a work life that is all about Being Flex, Being Connected, Being Well, Being Empowered and Being Valued. And we keep innovating and evolving our employee experience based on what we hear directly from our team members, because we strive to be the absolute best place to work.

So let’s recap, what to expect if you were to work at H+K:

• Nice, passionate colleagues and a supportive work culture
• Flexible work modes program, where you can choose whether you work from home, work from the office or a mix of both – a completely hybrid, distributed work force
• Exciting clients and opps to stretch up and across to grow within the company
• Competitive compensation
• Amazing, industry-best benefits, such as
• Comprehensive and inclusive health, dental, vision and mental healthcare
• Back-up care, paid parental leave (16-week maternity leave!) and other family solutions
• Retirement savings and student loan refinancing partner options

• Insanely good vacation and wellness time off, no matter your level
• Plus, other engaging employee programming, such as
• Ally and mentorship program
• Employee Resource Groups
• Employee Experience committees
• And, worth mentioning, frequent happy hours

Most importantly! As an Equal Opportunity Employer, H+K Strategies does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of their race, creed, color, age, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military status, national origin, or ancestry.

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