Senior Strategist

Introduction

Envoy is a creative consultancy that helps organizations accelerate growth through connected customer experiences. Trusted by iconic brands and tomorrow's category leaders, Envoy's multidisciplinary team of strategists, designers, and technologists delivers client impact through brand building, ecommerce, digital products, built environments, marketing, and communications. Headquartered in Irvine, California, with offices in San Diego and Chicago, Envoy transforms experiences for clients such as T-Mobile, Hyundai, Arlo, and Disney.

Opportunity

We are looking for a talented Senior Strategist with a passion for solving complex challenges and conveying ideas through engaging writing. You will be responsible for contributing to a team focused on brand, marketing, and communications, innovation, experience, and culture initiatives. You will work across diverse categories on challenging projects that require deep thinking, insights development, creative solutions, and copywriting.

This is a hybrid position and will require in-office time. We are looking for someone who can work out of our Irvine or San Diego office on a weekly basis.

What You Will Do

• Contribute to building brands from the ground up, refreshing existing brands, and bringing them to life through marketing and communications, web, digital products, people & culture, and experiences. Dig and research to fuel our thinking, including heavy desk research, field research, interviewing, and other forms of consumer research.
• Develop insights and write briefs for client and internal teams.
• Develop content for proposals, meetings, workshops, and final project output.
• Write brand narratives, brand platforms, brand messaging, and brand copy, for multiple channels.
• Contribute to original perspectives to support client work and agency thought-leadership
• Create and participate in collaborative idea generation workshops with clients.
• Produce a stellar work product to the Envoy standard on-time, every time.
• Contribute to the Strategy team and broader agency
• Track your time on projects and assorted other operational expectations.
• Represent Envoy and its values with professionalism, respect, and contagious enthusiasm.

Qualities and Qualifications

• A flat-out love and recognized skill developing brands
• An enthusiastic presenter with the ability to lead rooms of people to new places.
• Strong grasp of business, brand, marketing, and experience design principles.
• Growth mindset and the ambition to better yourself and the organization through daily learning and persistence.
• Pragmatic optimism with a focus on what can (and must) be done.
• A love of figuring things out on your own and the humility to ask for help.
• Ability to share opinions and challenge others in a respectful way.
• Practiced in surfacing observations that often lead to insights that open minds, move businesses, and inspire creatively.
• Excited by new business, new partners, and new opportunities
• Self-awareness and confidence within the team and in-front of clients.
• A healthy dose of not taking yourself so seriously.
• Travel when deemed necessary and appropriate.

What We Offer

The total compensation for this full-time position (including base salary and benefits) is between $120,000 and $130,000. Please note that this range is a guide, not a guarantee, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, work location, and the evolving needs of the business.

Envoy offers 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) matching, paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.

Our Hiring Process

We aim for an ideal time-to-hire of 35 days and are committed to making the interview process efficient, engaging, and enjoyable for every candidate.

We’re aiming for a target start date of July 20th, 2026, although this may shift slightly depending on factors such as applicant volume, process speed, and onboarding preparation. We’ll keep you updated every step of the way.

Here’s what you can expect from our hiring process:

• Every application is thoughtfully reviewed by our team
• A phone conversation with someone from our People & Culture team
• A video interview with the hiring team
• A final video interview with the hiring manager

Envoy is committed to equity.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our community. Envoy does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status.

All open requisitions at Envoy are being managed internally, and we are not engaging with agency partners at this time.