Strategy Lead: Brand Growth & Experience

VSA Partners; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

VSA Partners, a strategy and design agency with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, seeks an Associate Director, Strategy. This senior role leads complex client work, structures initiatives, and connects strategic thinking with brand identity and campaigns.

You’ll partner with directors and cross-functional teams to deliver rigorous, impactful strategy across engagements. The role emphasizes turning ambiguity into actionable direction, building client trust, and guiding significant

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree, or a more advanced degree, with 6-9 years of experience in brand strategy, marketing strategy, communications strategy, customer/audience strategy, consulting, research, or a related discipline.
• Experience developing insights, strategic recommendations, positioning, messaging, creative briefs, experience principles, or other client-ready strategy deliverables.
• Strong writing, presentation, facilitation, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Bring clarity to complex client challenges by translating inputs into clear implications.
• Own significant strategy workstreams and manage engagement quality.
• Apply core strategy tools, frameworks, and synthesis to structure work.
• Build trust with clients through preparation and effective communication.
• Develop concise, well-structured deliverables connecting strategy to creative outcomes.
• Collaborate with directors and partners to keep work aligned with scope and timing.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Client communication

Leadership

Project management

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Job description

VSA Partners, a strategy and design agency with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, seeks an Associate Director, Strategy. This senior role leads complex client work, structures initiatives, and connects strategic thinking with brand identity and campaigns.

You’ll partner with directors and cross-functional teams to deliver rigorous, impactful strategy across engagements. The role emphasizes turning ambiguity into actionable direction, building client trust, and guiding significant