That's where strategy matters. We're looking for a Creative & Brand Strategist to help ... Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level engagement.
That's where strategy matters. We're looking for a Creative & Brand Strategist to help ... Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level engagement.
Brand Manager
Salt Lake City, UT · Hybrid
We are currently looking for a passionate and creative brand builder with big ideas. This is a ... Manage agency & vendor relationships and budget reconciliations * Develop an Actionable Insights ...
Brand Manager
Salt Lake City, UT · Hybrid
We are currently looking for a passionate and creative brand builder with big ideas. This is a ... Manage agency & vendor relationships and budget reconciliations * Develop an Actionable Insights ...
Brand Manager
Salt Lake City, UT · Hybrid
We are currently looking for a passionate and creative brand builder with big ideas. This is a ... Manage agency & vendor relationships and budget reconciliations * Develop an Actionable Insights ...
Brand Manager
Salt Lake City, UT · Hybrid
We are currently looking for a passionate and creative brand builder with big ideas. This is a ... Manage agency & vendor relationships and budget reconciliations * Develop an Actionable Insights ...
Director, Creative & Brand Marketing
Irvine, CA · On-site
$145K - $191K/yr
Owns and manages the budget for brand advertising and external creative partners, ensuring effective allocation and utilization of resources. * Follows all of JAMS systems, programs, training ...
Director, Creative & Brand Marketing
Irvine, CA · On-site
$145K - $191K/yr
Owns and manages the budget for brand advertising and external creative partners, ensuring effective allocation and utilization of resources. * Follows all of JAMS systems, programs, training ...
A boutique creative hospitality agency in California is looking for a Senior Brand Manager to drive brand strategy and creative initiatives. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in ...
A boutique creative hospitality agency in California is looking for a Senior Brand Manager to drive brand strategy and creative initiatives. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in ...
Director, Creative & Brand Marketing
Irvine, CA · Hybrid
$145K - $191K/yr
Owns and manages the budget for brand advertising and external creative partners, ensuring effective allocation and utilization of resources. * Follows all of JAMS systems, programs, training ...
Director, Creative & Brand Marketing
Irvine, CA · Hybrid
$145K - $191K/yr
Owns and manages the budget for brand advertising and external creative partners, ensuring effective allocation and utilization of resources. * Follows all of JAMS systems, programs, training ...
Brand Manager
Los Angeles, CA · Hybrid
Omelet, an award-winning, independent creative agency with a growing and exciting client roster, is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and multidisciplinary Brand Manager for its Hollywood ...
Brand Manager
Los Angeles, CA · Hybrid
Omelet, an award-winning, independent creative agency with a growing and exciting client roster, is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and multidisciplinary Brand Manager for its Hollywood ...
Brand Manager
Los Angeles, CA · On-site
Omelet, an award-winning, independent creative agency with a growing and exciting client roster, is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and multidisciplinary Brand Manager for its Hollywood ...
Brand Manager
Los Angeles, CA · On-site
Omelet, an award-winning, independent creative agency with a growing and exciting client roster, is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and multidisciplinary Brand Manager for its Hollywood ...
Owns and manages the budget for brand advertising and external creative partners, ensuring effective allocation and utilization of resources. * Follows all of JAMS systems, programs, training ...
Owns and manages the budget for brand advertising and external creative partners, ensuring effective allocation and utilization of resources. * Follows all of JAMS systems, programs, training ...
Owns and manages the budget for brand advertising and external creative partners, ensuring effective allocation and utilization of resources. * Follows all of JAMS systems, programs, training ...
Owns and manages the budget for brand advertising and external creative partners, ensuring effective allocation and utilization of resources. * Follows all of JAMS systems, programs, training ...
Brand Manager
Redwood City, CA · On-site
$118K/yr
Project Management & Creative Development: • Oversee both internal creative teams and external partners to deliver world-class packaging and creative assets. Apply brand management best practices ...
Brand Manager
Redwood City, CA · On-site
$118K/yr
Project Management & Creative Development: • Oversee both internal creative teams and external partners to deliver world-class packaging and creative assets. Apply brand management best practices ...
Creative Manager
Frisco, TX · On-site
... Manager to lead the execution of our brand across digital, social, in-store, and franchise ... This role is responsible for bringing the brand to life visually through compelling creative ...
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Creative Manager
Frisco, TX · On-site
... Manager to lead the execution of our brand across digital, social, in-store, and franchise ... This role is responsible for bringing the brand to life visually through compelling creative ...
Associate Manager, Creative Brand Strategy
Irvine, CA · Hybrid
$92K - $120K/yr
The Associate Manager, Creative Brand Strategy is the heartbeat of the Global Brand Narrative team, playing a key role in bringing Taco Bell's brand to life through strategy, storytelling, and ...
Associate Manager, Creative Brand Strategy
Irvine, CA · Hybrid
$92K - $120K/yr
The Associate Manager, Creative Brand Strategy is the heartbeat of the Global Brand Narrative team, playing a key role in bringing Taco Bell's brand to life through strategy, storytelling, and ...
Working closely with Creative, Brand Marketing, Merchandising, and Product teams, the Creative Creative Production & Operations Manager helps bring campaigns and content to life while keeping ...
Working closely with Creative, Brand Marketing, Merchandising, and Product teams, the Creative Creative Production & Operations Manager helps bring campaigns and content to life while keeping ...
Brand Manager
Los Angeles, CA · On-site
$100K - $115K/yr
As we continue to scale globally, we are seeking a highly creative and culturally connected Brand Manager to support the development and execution of impactful brand campaigns, launches, partnerships ...
Brand Manager
Los Angeles, CA · On-site
$100K - $115K/yr
As we continue to scale globally, we are seeking a highly creative and culturally connected Brand Manager to support the development and execution of impactful brand campaigns, launches, partnerships ...
Working closely with Creative, Brand Marketing, Merchandising, and Product teams, the Creative Creative Production & Operations Manager helps bring campaigns and content to life while keeping ...
Working closely with Creative, Brand Marketing, Merchandising, and Product teams, the Creative Creative Production & Operations Manager helps bring campaigns and content to life while keeping ...
Brand Manager
Boston, MA · On-site
$82K - $103K/yr
The ideal candidate is a highly organized, creative marketer with strong project management skills, and a track record of growing brand visibility and engagement across digital channels. Key ...
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Brand Manager
Boston, MA · On-site
$82K - $103K/yr
The ideal candidate is a highly organized, creative marketer with strong project management skills, and a track record of growing brand visibility and engagement across digital channels. Key ...
Brand Manager
Glendale, CA · On-site
$110K - $120K/yr
... Manager to support the development and delivery of brand, social, campaign, content, and retail ... This role sits within the Brand & Creative team and is responsible for helping bring the Tacori ...
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Brand Manager
Glendale, CA · On-site
$110K - $120K/yr
... Manager to support the development and delivery of brand, social, campaign, content, and retail ... This role sits within the Brand & Creative team and is responsible for helping bring the Tacori ...
Brand Manager
Glendale, CA · On-site
$110K - $120K/yr
... Manager to support the development and delivery of brand, social, campaign, content, and retail ... This role sits within the Brand & Creative team and is responsible for helping bring the Tacori ...
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Brand Manager
Glendale, CA · On-site
$110K - $120K/yr
... Manager to support the development and delivery of brand, social, campaign, content, and retail ... This role sits within the Brand & Creative team and is responsible for helping bring the Tacori ...
You will lead brand identity and creative campaign execution, manage a small design team, and report to Reevo's Head of Design. Because of the close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders ...
You will lead brand identity and creative campaign execution, manage a small design team, and report to Reevo's Head of Design. Because of the close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders ...
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| Aspect | Creative Brand Manager | Creative Marketing Specialist |
|---|---|---|
| Credentials | Bachelor's in Marketing, Advertising, or related field; experience in brand management | Bachelor's in Marketing, Communications, or related field; creative portfolio |
| Work Environment | Strategic brand planning, cross-department collaboration | Campaign execution, content creation, digital marketing |
| Employer & Industry | Brands, advertising agencies, consumer goods companies | Marketing agencies, media companies, brands |
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Job description
Organizations have never had more ways to reach people. More channels. More content. More data. More expertise. Yet influence remains scarce.
People decide what to trust. What to believe. What to adopt. What to join. What to ignore. The gap between what organizations intend and what people do is where growth is won or lost.
That's where strategy matters. We're looking for a Creative & Brand Strategist to help organizations navigate that gap. This is a senior leadership role for a strategist who can transform complexity into clarity, insight into direction, and direction into ideas that create measurable impact.
You'll work across brand, marketing, customer experience, communications, digital transformation, and organizational challenges - helping clients identify opportunities, define strategic choices, and create meaningful connections with the people they serve.
The Opportunity
As a Creative & Brand Strategist, you will lead strategic development across integrated engagements that span brand, campaign, digital experience, customer engagement, and organizational transformation.
You will partner with researchers, behavioral scientists, consultants, creatives, technologists, and client leaders to uncover what drives decisions and define what should happen next.
You'll be responsible for shaping the strategic foundation behind the work: identifying opportunities, framing challenges, developing positioning, creating narratives, and inspiring ideas that move people to action.
This role requires equal comfort in the boardroom, workshop, research review, and creative briefing. You will influence executive stakeholders, guide multidisciplinary teams, and ensure strategy serves as a catalyst for both creativity and business outcomes.
What You'll Do
- Lead strategic direction across brands, campaigns, experiences, and integrated initiatives.
- Translate research, data, and audience understanding into actionable insights and strategic recommendations.
- Develop brand positioning, value propositions, messaging frameworks, narrative platforms, and campaign strategies.
- Partner with research, analytics and account teams to unlock audience drivers, develop personas and segmentation strategies that drive program development and delivery.
- Contribute to developing key performance indicators and program evaluation approaches.
- Create clear, inspiring briefs that drive exceptional creative and experience design work.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops, executive alignment sessions, and strategic planning engagements.
- Identify emerging cultural, behavioral, and market shifts that create new opportunities for clients.
- Partner closely with research, customer experience, creative, digital, consulting, and account teams to solve complex business challenges.
- Check for strategy and brand consistency in creative concepting and delivery.
What We're Looking For
You are a strategist first. You know how to uncover meaningful insights, define compelling positions, build persuasive narratives, and create strategic direction that inspires action. You understand that brands are not simply communications systems - they are systems of meaning.
You see audiences as people, not segments. You know how to connect human motivations with organizational goals. You can move comfortably between long-term brand building and immediate business priorities. Between analytical rigor and creative imagination. Between evidence, intuition, and judgment. Most importantly, you know that strategy is not about having all the answers. It's about asking the questions that reveal opportunities others miss.
You Bring:
Professional Skills
- Significant experience in brand strategy, communications planning, creative strategy, customer strategy, consumer behavioral psychology, consulting, or a related discipline.
- A strong track record of leading strategic work across complex, multidisciplinary engagements and with cross-functional marketing teams.
- Experience developing positioning, messaging architectures, audience personas, narrative frameworks, campaign strategies, and creative briefs.
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level engagement.
- Exceptional communication, storytelling, and presentation abilities.
- Proven ability to align diverse stakeholders around strategic direction and organizational priorities
- Curiosity about culture, behavior, technology, and the forces shaping how people make decisions
- Experience using AI as a tool to make our research and deliverables smarter and more efficient.
- Primary and secondary research experience and demonstrated ability to use the data to unlock insights that drive program design.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, market research, journalism, sociology or related fields. (applicants can substitute one year of related experience for one year of education)
- 10+ years of experience developing and leading brand, communications, customer experience, or business strategies within agencies, consultancies, or client organizations.
- Must be able to pass a background check and secure public trust clearance.
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role is not measured by the number of strategies created. It's measured by the decisions those strategies enable.
You will:
- Help clients see opportunities they couldn't previously see.
- Bring clarity to ambiguity and alignment to complexity.
- Influence critical business, brand, and experience decisions.
- Elevate the quality of creative thinking across teams.
- Strengthen client relationships through trusted strategic leadership.
- Create work that earns attention, builds trust, drives participation, and delivers meaningful outcomes.
- Build a stronger culture of strategic thinking across teams, improving how opportunities are identified, framed, and brought to market.
Working at ICF
ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we're not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer.Together, our employees are empowered to share theirexpertiseand collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read ourEEOpolicy.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals withsincerely heldreligious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To requestan accommodation,please emailCandidateaccommodation@icf.comand we will be happy toassist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extentrequiredto provide needed reasonable accommodations.
Read more aboutworkplacediscriminationrightsor our benefit offerings which are included in theTransparency in (Benefits) CoverageAct.
At ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate orassistwith responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is notpermitted. This policy is in place tomaintainthe integrity and authenticity of the interview process.
However, we understand that some candidates may require accommodationthat involves the use of AI. Ifsuch anaccommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance atcandidateaccommodation@icf.com. Weare dedicated to providingthe necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.
Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.
The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:
$118,807.00 - $201,971.00DC Remote Office (DC99)About ICF
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Industry
Business management consulting
Company size
5,001 - 10,000 Employees
Headquarters location
Reston, VA, US
Year founded
1969