Talent Pool: Senior Strategist

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 pool—so 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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,…