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We're always on the lookout for creative, passionate, and talented individuals to join our team! While this is a pipeline position, applying now means you'll be added to our talent poolso when the right opportunity opens up, you'll be first in line.

The Senior Strategist plays a critical leadership role in defining and driving the strategic vision for our clients. This position shapes the thinking that fuels impactful creative, integrated media plans, and measurable business growth. You will not only ensure campaigns meet objectives, but that they resonate culturally, connect authentically, and deliver real results.

This is a high-ownership role responsible for setting strategic direction, elevating agency thinking, and influencing both internal teams and client partners.

What You'll Do

Strategic Leadership

• Own and lead the end-to-end strategic process across key client accounts, from research and insight development to positioning, messaging architecture, and campaign frameworks.
• Translate complex business challenges into clear, compelling strategic direction that inspires creative and media execution.
• Drive audience segmentation, journey mapping, and behavioral insight development to uncover growth opportunities.
• Establish measurement frameworks that connect strategy to performance and business outcomes.

Client Partnership

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to clients, confidently presenting recommendations, facilitating workshops, and navigating complex conversations.
• Proactively identify opportunities for growth within existing accounts.
• Lead strategic components of new business pitches, articulating differentiated thinking that positions Idea Peddler as a category leader.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with creative (production + design), media, social, and PR teams to ensure strategic alignment across all touchpoints.
• Ensure strategy is actionable, integrated, and measurable across channels.
• Elevate the level of thinking within the agency by challenging assumptions and sharpening briefs.

Team Development

• Mentor and develop junior strategists and planners, fostering strong critical thinking and presentation skills.
• Contribute to defining role expectations, growth paths, and best practices for the strategy function.
• Champion a culture of curiosity, rigor, and no-B.S. feedback.

Innovation & Thought Leadership

• Stay ahead of emerging trends in culture, media, technology, and consumer behavior.
• Introduce new tools, frameworks, and methodologies that strengthen agency capabilities.
• Elevate Idea Peddler's strategic voice both internally and externally.

Who You Are

• A strategic thinker who can connect dots across business, culture, and creative.
• Equally comfortable in data, decks, and debate.
• Clear, confident, and compelling in client-facing settings.
• Naturally curious with strong analytical instincts.
• Motivated by growth, accountability, and impact.
• Excited to build, not just maintain.

About Idea Peddler:

What's it like to work at Idea Peddler?

We're the rehab for big agency life. If you love doing smart and thoughtful work, but hate the big agency B.S., Idea Peddler might be the place for you. With appreciative and purpose-driven clients, a caring and transparent team culture, and true work-life balance, Idea Peddler is a place where you can thrive based on your own drive; a true meritocracy. In addition to having the chops to concept and execute campaigns flawlessly, curiosity, adventure, and a damn good attitude will carry you far here. We are a team of self-starters who hold dear our core values of adventure, accountability, discernment, motivation and no B.S. Full-time members of our team are rewarded for hard work and have immediate access to a robust benefits package that includes health, vision and dental benefits; 401k matching; generous paid time off; tech kit; health club stipend; cell phone credit; catered weekly meal; recurring educational opportunities and more.

Idea Peddler, founded in 2011, is a full-service agency operating on a hybrid work model that offers big agency expertise with boutique agency service. We create bespoke campaigns that deliver on clients' unique goals and follow through with exceptional execution. In uncertain times, ideas win. Ideas that inspire. Ideas that shift behavior. And ideas that create growth. Idea Peddler holds true to the promise of doing good work for nice people. www.ideapeddler.com

Idea Peddler is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive, equitable environment for all employees. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business need.