Back to jobs Director, Strategy New York About Interbrand Interbrand understands what it takes today to build the world’s most iconic brands. To support our clients in an ever more complex and fascinating world, we have renewed our commitment to both common global standards and greater empowerment, experimentation and entrepreneurialism. Interbrand is its people.
We are a global team of highly diverse thinkers, makers and collaborators. We are proud of our heritage and often regarded as the university of branding. Over the past four decades, we have pioneered iconic work and invented many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace.
In collaboration with many of the world’s leading brands, we are pioneering the future of brand building. In a world where people’s expectations are moving faster than businesses, we give our clients the confidence to make Iconic Moves that create desire and utility, reshape the competitive landscape and drive extraordinary results.
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Brands study/rankings are resources to our clients and the industry, providing proprietary data and insight for our role as client partner and commentator. We have published 18 books on brands and are often the reference point for university curriculum and professional associations. Today, through our own Academy, we aim to be the most impactful learning workplace in the marketing world.
Our Behaviours
Our culture is informed by a set of behaviours we co-created as a business. Our behaviours give us space to experiment, permission to speak out, and a model of leadership that anyone in the business can adopt. Our behaviours are Lead with love, Be Brave, Listen First and Make it happen.
We are proud of our behaviours. They make us, us. The opportunity You're a strategic leader who shapes how we solve problems, build relationships, and grow our business. You see opportunity where others see complexity, and you have the commercial confidence and creative judgment to turn ambitious visions into reality.
At Interbrand, you'll lead our most significant strategy engagements, build deep relationships with C-suite clients, and guide multidisciplinary teams to create work that defines the future of iconic brands. You'll also play a key role in shaping our office, developing our talent, winning new business, and building Interbrand's reputation in the market. This is a role where your strategic thinking, client relationships, and leadership directly impact our growth and success.
What You'll Be Doing Lead complex, high-stakes strategy engagements for global and regional clients across brand, business, and experience challenges
Build and maintain deep relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor who understands their business, anticipates their needs, and helps them navigate critical decisions
Use our Thinking & Making approach and Three Lenses (Human Truth, Brand Economics, Experience) to diagnose what matters, shape bold strategic direction, and ensure ideas are viable, desirable, and ready for the real world
Present and sell strategic thinking to C-suite audiences with authority, confidence, and conviction
Lead and develop strategy teams, providing direction, coaching, feedback, and creating an environment where people do their best work
Identify and pursue commercial opportunities for Interbrand and our clients, thinking like a business partner to maximize mutual value and extend relationships
Collaborate with designers, writers, client partners, brand economists, principals, and other disciplines globally to deliver integrated solutions
Collaborate with the Growth team by driving pitches, shaping proposals, building relationships, and helping define our competitive positioning
Build Interbrand's external profile through thought leadership, speaking, writing, and representing our point of view in the market
Play an active role in growth strategy, contributing to how we grow, what we prioritize, and how we operate
Champion Interbrand's culture and values, helping create an environment where people feel supported, challenged, and inspired to do their best work
Stay ahead of branding, business, and cultural shifts,
bringing provocative points of view and helping shape where our craft is going next Experience What we're looking for Proven reputation within brand strategy, business strategy, or management consulting. You've led significant engagements, built lasting client relationships, developed teams, and delivered work that created measurable business impact. Strategic thinking You diagnose complex challenges, reframe business problems, and build strategies that combine Human Truth, Brand Economics, and Experience.
You know how to balance creativity with commercial reality, and you champion ideas from concept through to implementation. You bring robust points of view on categories, markets, and where brands need to go next.
Communication
You're an exceptional communicator who writes with clarity and conviction, presents with authority, and facilitates sessions that unlock breakthrough thinking. You adapt your approach for different audiences and know how to build buy-in at every level, from working teams to boardrooms.
Collaboration
You build trust across teams, disciplines, geographies, and cultures. You bring people together around a shared vision, invite diverse perspectives, and elevate the thinking and quality of everyone around you. Independence and ownership You take full accountability for your projects, your relationships, your team, and your contributions to the business.
You manage complexity with commercial intelligence, balancing client satisfaction, team wellbeing, and profitability. You do what you say you'll do and inspire confidence in others.
Curiosity
You have a genuine passion for brands, culture, business, and what's next. You stay ahead of shifts in our industry and adjacent fields, and you bring that thinking into your work and share it generously with others.
Why Interbrand For over 50 years, we've been shaping the world's most iconic brands. We solve brand challenges through our Thinking & Making approach, combining Human Truth, Brand Economics, and Experience to help our clients make the moves that unlock growth and define what's next. We nurture a global community of thinkers and makers with the curiosity and confidence to create iconic work.
Here, you'll find transparent career pathways, on-demand learning, honest feedback, real collaboration across borders, and a culture that champions difference and wellbeing. We don't do ordinary. And we don't expect you to either.
Salary: $160k-$210k This role requires 3 days in office per week We are working through access barriers across our job site, so if you run into any issues and would like this information in an alternative format, or would prefer to apply via email, please send us a message at
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