Our client is redefining the marketing and brand experience landscape by delivering comprehensive strategy, bold creative, and memorable experiences under one roof. The firm’s unwavering commitment to innovation, strategic depth, and collaborative excellence has earned recognition as a tight-knit agency that consistently delivers top-shelf quality for sophisticated national and regional accounts. With an average employee tenure of 8+ years (compared to the advertising industry average of under 2 years), the company has built a distinctive culture that prioritizes work-life balance while maintaining exceptional output, reinforced through a transparent profit-sharing model where 30% of profits are distributed to team members. As the company continues to scale its capabilities and client portfolio, they are seeking an Associate Director of Marketing Strategy to serve as a true strategic partner and anchor of their growing operations.
This role offers a rare opportunity to operate at the nexus of strategic vision-setting and hands-on execution while gaining genuine operational leadership experience. You will drive brand positioning, campaign strategy, content development, and performance analytics across a portfolio of sophisticated accounts, directly influencing client business outcomes and market presence. Your work will sit at the strategic hub connecting multidisciplinary internal teams and external partners, requiring fluency in moving seamlessly between 30,000-foot brand visions and ground-level execution details. This role evolves into full Strategic Director status and offers visibility across the entire agency operations. You will be integral to the company’s mission to deliver bold creative grounded in rigorous strategy, and you’ll play a critical role in building a scalable, repeatable model for strategic excellence.
Responsibilities
Brand Positioning and Brand Strategy. Utilize primary and secondary research to define client market positioning, establish clear tone-of-voice parameters, outline target-audience messaging platforms, and build competitive differentiation matrices.
Campaign Strategy and Go-to-Market Execution. Define strategic purpose, timing, and audience context for all campaign deliverables. Develop comprehensive go-to-market frameworks and create detailed, transparent rollout plans with timing and resource allocation.
Content Development and Strategic Oversight. Directly write and outline marketing and brand content across digital ads, social posts, billboards, emails, and collateral to ensure every creative deliverable meets precise positioning and exceptional brand guidelines.
Media Strategy and Multi-Channel Alignment. Collaborate with internal media teams to design and review multi-channel media plans across traditional and digital networks. Use demographic insights and indices to justify decisions and participate in ongoing optimization data reviews.
Experiential Strategy and Execution. Apply consumer psychology alongside campaign and content strategy to concept, engineer, and execute trade shows, customer events, and immersive physical brand implementations such as corporate briefing centers.
Performance Analytics and Reporting. Analyze multi-channel campaign metrics to evaluate actual audience behavior, track performance trends, and distill complex data into visually clear, actionable reporting insights for client stakeholders.
Audience Research and Validation. Conduct rigorous secondary research and manage external research vendors to facilitate target-audience focus groups, surveys, and concept testing, ensuring creative directions are validated by evidence rather than intuition.
AI Integration and Strategic Innovation. Demonstrate masterful use of advanced AI platforms to accelerate consumer research, optimize workflows, audit strategic logic, and convert technical data into human-centric go-to-market strategies. This is a core workflow expectation, not optional.
Qualifications
Required:
A demonstrated track record of developing award-winning or commercially successful marketing strategies and campaigns that moved business outcomes for clients or employers.
A minimum of 6 years of progressive experience in marketing, advertising, or strategic planning in an agency environment, or robust client-side experience directly managing agency partners and multi-channel campaigns.
Proven capability to move fluidly between strategic vision and execution details.
Demonstrated ability to develop messaging architectures and provide precise directional guidance to writers and creative partners.
Solid understanding of and hands-on experience with traditional, digital, social, and experiential media plans, including post-launch performance optimization.
Exceptional research, reading, and writing skills with a strong internal compass for grammar and clarity. Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable strategic recommendations.
Preferred:
Experience in a lean, entrepreneurial agency environment where efficiency and quality coexist.
Demonstrated expertise using AI tools and platforms to enhance strategic research and accelerate workflow productivity.
Background in consumer psychology, market research, or data analysis.
Location
Position Type: Full-Time, Exempt
Location: Remote (Candidates must reside within Colorado or Wyoming)
Call to Action
If you are a strategic thinker with a proven track record of translating insight into impact, we would love to hear from you. Apply now and a member of Talentfoot Executive Search’s recruitment team will be in touch should your track record of success, experience, skills, and qualifications match our client’s requirements.