What We Need

Leading a team of strategists – and your clients – in advancing brand and content strategies for some of the world’s largest tech brands.

About Us:

Codeword is an agency of creative problem solvers who believe marketing doesn’t have to suck. 

We are a fast-growing, fast-moving team of writers, editors, designers, strategists, videographers, PR mavens, and even a few traditional marketers. We have an incredible roster of big and small tech clients for whom we manage editorial and social channels, develop smart marketing strategies, drive news coverage, and create big ideas.

Codeword is a remote-first agency, though we have physical offices in NYC, SF, and SLC that we won’t make you visit.

About You: 

• 8 years of experience 
• Excellent communicator, especially presentations and deck building 
• An entrepreneurial spirit with a collaborative mindset, comfortable working with an integrated team and independently
• Strong managerial skills and appetite for mentoring and developing the skill sets of team members
• Creative problem-solver comfortable tackling new or vague projects
• Great at building and strengthening relationships with clients, especially senior clients, and internal teams
• Comfortable sharing your expert opinion on creative, writing, scopes, and presentations (without being an A-hole)

About This Role: 

The Strategy Director will report to our Strategy Team Lead, Jordan Leschinsky (who’s amazing), and will be leading the growth and development of high-quality work for one of the world’s largest tech brands. You’ll be leading a team of senior and junior strategists, and working alongside a talented group of analysts, writers, designers, and account managers to help guide the strategic thinking, planning, and creative for a variety of products and client teams with a range of needs. These can include brand and narrative development, content strategy and creative ideation, governance models and user journeys – just to name a few. 

If you’ve done some or all of this before, great! But if you haven’t, we’re looking for a strategic problem-solver who’s just as comfortable getting a team excited about brainstorming creative campaign lines for a new product launch as they are getting hands-on with a persuasive deck or organizing a few hundred pages of content into a user-friendly taxonomy or sitemap. 

The role requires a clear, effective communicator who’s able to guide and inspire clients and internal teammates. There’ll be a lot of client consulting, deck building, and supporting teammates as you help find solutions to problems that aren’t covered by any rule books or best-practice guidelines. 

Unlike most agencies, we don’t have a hard line between our creatives and strategists, and we pride ourselves on our ability to execute in a wide range of marketing disciplines. So if you like to mix it up, stop reading and apply already!

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Leading your strategy team to develop smart, effective strategies that help clients meet their goals and measure that we did.
• Partnering with the analytics, editorial, account, and creative leads to drive business growth and deliver high quality work Codeword can be proud of.
• Guiding the clients to better understand audiences and inspire work that will help them achieve their goals, not just answer their brief.
• Motivating teammates on client asks and strategies, how to best achieve them, and how to make the work more strategic (they’ll be looking to you for guidance)
• Developing junior and senior strategists to grow and improve their skill sets (presentation skills, audience insights, framework development, information organization, etc.)
• Working with other strategists and analysts on the team to cross collaborate, share insights, and assist when needed.
• Supporting the Team Lead in identifying and growing new business opportunities, as well as supporting the continued improvement of the strategy department overall.

Your Compensation:

People – that's you! – are the heart of our business, and we believe a culture of pay transparency benefits both Codeword and our team members’ careers. 

For this role we’re looking to pay $125K - $145K, depending on experience.

Your Benefits:

• Flexible work hours
• Minimum 20 days paid vacation annually
• 401k financial wellness support
• Health Insurance (medical, dental, life, pet, mental health services) 
• Home office allowance
• Bi-annual Wellness Credits
• Monthly Technology Credit (to offset internet / phone costs)
• Every role is bonus eligible
• Comprehensive Parental Leave Policy

A few more things you should know about Codeword:

• The Codeword dream: Make good money doing work you care about with people you like. 
• We love our clients (they write the checks!), which means maintaining a high bar for the creativity, smarts, responsiveness, and communication skills we offer them. 
• We’re around 100 people, big enough to handle large-scale marketing programs, small enough that you’ll have an impact on our culture. 
• We’re a friendly team, we look after each other, and we grow our careers together. 
• We respect everyone’s personal life. After-hours emails are strongly frowned upon, night and weekend work is very rare, and employees are encouraged to pursue their side-hustles. 
• We’re all grownups here, and we trust each other to get the work done, whether at home or in an office or a time zone on the other side of the world. 
• We believe in defaulting to openness. Our calendars, our salary tiers, and our doors are open for all to see. (Except for secret client stuff, which we guard with our lives.) 
• We’re a proud member of the global WE Communications family.

Equal Opportunity: Codeword provides equal employment opportunity and doesn’t discriminate against employees or applicants because of age, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, or other legally protected class status.

Diversity and Inclusion: Codeword works hard to foster a diverse team and an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.

We aren’t a traditional agency, so we like to hire people who don’t necessarily fit the agency mold or check all the “right” boxes. If you’re on the fence about applying, please do! 

To apply for this job, email us at jobs@codewordagency.com