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About

FiveStone Strategists are innovative, collaborative problem-solvers. We ask great questions, craft direction for solutions, guide implementation, and gather insights to work for the good of both the client and culture.

Our approach to strategy is rooted in human-centered design. This approach keeps the people we are designing for at the heart of our work and ensures solutions specific to them. Every project is based on a foundation of audience discovery— understanding needs, experiences, and opportunities, and from there creating empathy-driven solutions that achieve our clients’ goals.

Description

FiveStone Strategy Directors set vision for our client, elevate thinking, and lead cross-disciplinary project teams through execution.

We’re dedicated to understanding and advocating for clients’ goals across a wide range of design challenges. This role works across a wide range of brand and strategy projects including brand identity, creative campaigns, audience insights, marketing strategies, and brand application. Specific contributions include:

• Serve as the day-to-day lead (with minimal oversight) on medium/large engagements

• Collaborate with other project leads and strategists as a supporter and thought partner

• Develop strategies to unlock impactful opportunities for our clients and help navigate major inflection points

• Defend with well-thought-out, insightful, philosophically sophisticated POVs and recommendations

• Manage all aspects of discovery, including both qualitative and quantitative research (Ramp and maintain familiarity with clients’ industries, craft research plans/materials, conduct interviews/ethnographies, and guide analysis)

• Lead workshops both internally and with client teams, with the ability to create engaging activities, ideate, and extract meaning

• Guide agile development for strategic solutions— creating low-fidelity prototypes for feedback and testing

• Craft strategic creative briefs to guide design and development teams and ensure creative development aligns with project strategies

• Review creative assets to ensure they align with strategies, making recommendations around refinement

• Usher strategies through implementation, monitor performance data, and identify strategic implications

• Contribute to content development, such as writing thought leadership pieces, case studies, and research reports

• Support executive-level client relationships and nurture the accounts

• Manage and build relationships with vendors and partners (copywriters, media agencies, etc.), ensuring their efforts align with project strategies

Desired Experience/Skills

• 10+ years of experience working as a strategist (or similar) at a creative, brand strategy, design, or insights-focused agency.

• 5+ years of client-facing experience with the ability to develop and nurture relationships with day-to-day client contacts

• Experience using the human-centered design process (or similar) and creative development processes

• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) with the ability to craft compelling narratives

• Stay heavily attuned to cultural, marketing, and social technologies and trends, and ability to forecast opportunities for clients

• Ability to execute across wide range of marketing channel (digital/social platforms, influencers, etc.)

• Familiarity with quantitative and qualitative research methods and a solid understanding of how they apply to client challenges

• Knowledge of measurement frameworks and tooling, and experience leveraging measurement indicators to make informed strategic decisions

• Dedication to finding exceptional solutions, and committed to seeing things through to success

• Bachelor’s degree required.

Core Competencies/Demonstrated Talent

Here are a few qualities we hope our Strategy Directors embody in your own, unique way.

• Creative problem solving

• Relentlessly curious and life lifelong learner

• Adaptable

• Collaborative team player

• Analytical, rigorous processor (challenge assumptions and recognize biases)

• Expert communicator

• Socially-minded, mission-driven

• Nimble and comfortable working on multiple projects at a time

• Strong work ethic

• Insightful (ability to recognize patterns; connect the dots from objectives to insights to ideas)

About

FiveStone Strategists are innovative, collaborative problem-solvers. We ask great questions, craft direction for solutions, guide implementation, and gather insights to work for the good of both the client and culture.

Our approach to strategy is rooted in human-centered design. This approach keeps the people we are designing for at the heart of our work and ensures solutions specific to them. Every project is based on a foundation of audience discovery— understanding needs, experiences, and opportunities, and from there creating empathy-driven solutions that achieve our clients’ goals.

Description

FiveStone Marketing Strategists are generalists, who also bring a special subject matter expertise, to complex marketing challenges. We understand the context, the client, and the constraints and put forward compelling strategies and navigate to successful outcomes.

The Marketing Strategist will work across a wide range of projects. Specific areas of support and contribution include:

• Serve as the day-to-day lead (with minimal oversight) on small/medium engagements and projects and supporting senior and executive strategists on larger engagements

• Create marketing strategies and plans by developing and defending well-thought-out strategic POVs and recommendations for clients

• Lead workshops both internally and with client teams, with the ability to create engaging activities, facilitate group conversations, and extract meaning

• Craft strategic creative briefs to guide design and development teams and ensure creative development aligns with project strategies

• Usher marketing strategies through implementation, monitor performance data, and identify strategic implications

• Contribute to content development, such as writing case studies, research reports, social copy, and assisting with content distribution

• Manage day-to-day relationships with vendors and partners (copywriters, media agencies, etc.), ensuring their efforts align with project strategies

Working closely with our Design Director, Creative Directors, and Strategists, our Art Director elegantly delivers intuitive, intelligent, and beautiful branded work. They are able to set the art direction for a variety of print and digital products and content that serve both the brand and users. From brainstorming concepts to being obsessed about the details, they understand how to translate strategy into visual design and can execute with excellence. Our AD’s are hands, agile and versatile, applying their art direction and design expertise to any visual problem that needs to be solved—from branding to digital products to awareness campaigns.

What we’d like to see

• 7+ years of experience, including in an agency environment, designing for print, web and mobile, with a strong knowledge of branding, campaigns, digital products, and social media.

• Strong understanding of branding, ad campaigns, digital product strategy, content strategy, experience strategy, visual design, site architecture, user interfaces, site functionality, navigation, and development.

• Must love both traditional design and digital. You stay close to the changes in the industry and are committed to continual improvement and learning.

• History of original and innovative work that includes complex sites, brand identity, and digital/social campaigns—from concept through execution. Comfortable working against a creative brief.

• Sharp eye for detail and aesthetic.

• Great organizational skills. You’re comfortable with juggling multiple projects, while prioritizing and delivering tasks on time.

• Highly collaborative. You’re a team player who welcomes working with others and looks out for the best interest of the team, the client, and the project as a whole.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills. You proactively manage expectations, contribute positively to discussions, and can explain the reasoning behind the decisions in your work.

• Strong leadership and ownership. You have a high degree of responsibility in the work you do.

• A “can do” attitude. You are efficient and creative with time and resources. You can work with lean budgets and creatively deal with unexpected hurdles.

• Familiar with the agency and small company culture. At FiveStone, we leave our ego at the door and roll up our sleeves to help how we can.

• A sense of urgency. You get the work done and don’t love sitting idle. You’re ready for the next task.

• Curious approach and asks great questions. You are eager to learn and continue growing with us.

• Advanced proficiency with design tools—Adobe Creative & Digital Suite, Invision, Figma, and Sketch.

• Must be comfortable working with a range of social impact clients, including those that are faith-based.

Interest and Additional Information

We are a distributed team across New York, NY and Boulder, CO. and we love meeting new people who share our same passions. If you think you might be a fit for the position, we want to hear from you!

Please send your resume, portfolio & cover letter to [email protected].

FiveStone is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We believe a diverse workplace is a great workplace.