Strategic Planner
Location
AUSTIN
Type
Full Time
We’re looking for a strategic planner with 3 years of experience. The scope of this role includes brand, creative and experience strategy for the bank with the highest customer satisfaction in the nation and for an under-the-radar, off-price retailer with an underleveraged fan base. The ideal candidate will possess a strong instinct for culturally resonant solutions to business challenges and opportunities. They will have an interest in helping people feel smarter about money and pursue their passions, and they will have experience in digital strategy and agile work processes.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute insights and provide strategic guidance for specific business initiatives, including digital financial advising
- Own and/or support creative planning for new product offerings, partnerships and key marketing efforts such as seasonal brand events
- Present insights for initiatives and priorities based on primary and secondary knowledge
- Guide content and creative development for digital and physical consumer experiences
- Ensure strategic alignment across brand activities and touch points
Requirements:
- Strategic experience with major brand campaigns, initiatives or product rollouts
- Comfort with agile work processes to identify, craft and develop breakthrough brand solutions
- Hands-on collaboration with creative and other team members to bring strategy to life across consumers’ experience with a brand, including website as well as social and paid channels
- 3 years of planning or equivalent experience at an ad agency, marketing consultancy or other marketing organization
- Category professional experience and/or personal interest a plus
Please do not call. All submissions will be reviewed. Thank you.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
McGarrah Jessee
McGarrah Jessee is an independent brand development agency in Austin, Texas. We partner deeply with uniquely great clients to solve big problems, push creative boundaries and shape all parts of the brand. The result: unusual levels of brand fandom, award-winning work and an employee and client tenure rate that runs counter to the industry.
McGarrah Jessee believes in the power of a workplace that embraces diversity, equity and inclusion. And we believe our culture is more inviting and creative and our work more productive and truthful when we are welcoming to all.
McGarrah Jessee is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. Eligible McGarrah Jessee employees can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave in a 12-month period per the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). McGarrah Jessee complies with the Employee Polygraph Protection Act. If you need assistance or accommodation during the application process, please email accommodations@mc-j.com or call (512) 225-2258. If you’d like, please note the pronouns you use (she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc.) in your application.