Senior Strategist / Strategy Lead (contract)

8 hours, 44 minutes ago
Contract
Senior
Marketing and Growth
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

  • Develop strategic narratives for integrated campaigns, brand anthems, podcasts, social campaigns, and performance-oriented content.
  • Translate business objectives, audience insights, and campaign strategies into creative briefs and actionable direction.
  • Shape brand-level narratives into campaign platforms and channel-specific strategies.
  • Connect social executions and audience journeys to broader campaign ideas and marketing goals.
  • Synthesize complex information into briefs, frameworks, presentations, and creative guidance.
  • Collaborate with strategy, design, motion, production, and other creative partners from concept through execution.
  • Present strategic thinking and respond to client and internal feedback.
  • Manage multiple lines of business, workstreams, stakeholders, and changing priorities while maintaining strategic clarity.
  • Ensure alignment among audience insights, campaign narratives, creative ideas, and final executions.
  • For Strategy Leads, own strategy across complex engagements, guide multidisciplinary teams, and maintain alignment across interconnected workstreams.

Requirements

  • Significant strategy experience in an agency, brand, or similarly fast-paced creative environment.
  • Strong marketing and campaign strategy experience across social and digital channels.
  • Experience developing mid- and lower-funnel content tied to audience actions or business goals.
  • Excellent synthesis, storytelling, presentation, communication, and facilitation skills.
  • Strong creative instincts and experience partnering with design, motion, and other creative disciplines.
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams and collaborate with internal and client stakeholders.
  • Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and navigate ambiguity.
  • Curiosity about emerging technology and AI, with sound judgment about their use in strategy and creative work.
  • Strategy Lead candidates should have experience owning complex engagements, building senior client trust, guiding multidisciplinary teams, and aligning interconnected workstreams.
  • Availability for a 40-hour-per-week freelance engagement through January 29, 2027, beginning as soon as possible.

Benefits

  • Contract pay range of $61–$102 per hour, adjusted based on location, experience, and skillset.
  • Three regional pay ranges with cost-of-living adjustments: US1 +15%, US2 +7.5%, and US3 base.
  • Benefits may be available under applicable law and company policy, based on hours worked and assignment duration.

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