Associate Communications Strategy Director

San Francisco, CA, US (Hybrid)
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***OPEN TO SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, AND SEATTLE***

 

Who We Are

We are a fiercely entrepreneurial ad agency that blends creativity and performance to build great brands. We call this approach Soul + Science. With offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Seattle, we serve as collaborative business partners to some of the world’s best brands including Ben & Jerry’s, Jose Cuervo, Alaska Airlines, Charles Schwab and OkCupid, among others.

Being a Mekanista requires a rare combination of being a weird, fearless and wonderful person who enjoys birthday cakes, well-behaved dogs, and shared sensibility of respect and not taking ourselves too seriously.

Mekanism has been named to Ad Age’s A-List and twice to their Best Places to Work list. Most recently, Mekanism was named Independent Agency of the Year by The Drum and a Top 10 Most Effective Independent Agency in the US by the Effie Index. We have been profiled by The New York Times, Fast Company and ABC’s Nightline. Our campaign methodologies are studied by Harvard Business School.

 

Key Areas of Responsibility:

 

THIS IS NOT A STRATEGY ROLE, NOT A MEDIA ROLE

Strategic Thinker:  Hyper-focused on consumer behaviors, motivations and needs. Ability to find true insights (not just observations) to drive breakthrough work. Inspires creative teams and stress-tests creative campaigns and ideas through consumer experience journeys. Works closely with the Communication Strategy Director & Head of Digital Experience to sharpen & grow Mekanism Communications Strategy capabilities, expanding how we use comms/experience planning to reach and engage audiences, as well as how to tell stories across multiple channels.  

Integrated Partner: Mekanism is a full-funnel creative agency. For your brands, you will function as a connective tissue between the creative, brand strategy team and the media and social team, keeping an open dialogue going with Creative Directors to help turn their ideas into creative, and smart, media and social executions. 

Communications Leadership: Work with Brand Management to be a true partner to clients, educating them on the power of communications thinking and how it will drive their business objectives. Be equal parts strategic, comms leader, and business, client leader to reinforce consumer’s connection with the brand. 

Digital/Innovation &  Emerging Media-Minded: With your strong digital/mobile/social/emerging media chops and passion, help us crack innovation for our clients. 

Growth-Oriented: Participate and act as lead on New Business projects.  Demonstrate strategic ability to identify new opportunities for brands/products/clients to augment existing consumer research, finding unique ways to connect with the consumer through key comms/experiential touch points and level up thinking for our clients.

 

Qualifications:

  • You must have 6-8 years of experience with a creative agency or media company with specific communications/experience planning experience.  
  • You must be comfortable working at a fast pace and also must think of yourself as both creative and strategic. We blend teams across disciplines.
  • You must have a thirst to be a part of New Business Pitches, even better if you have a track record of winning them.
  • You must have great client skills. This means you should like to, and be proficient at, presenting and work-shopping with clients on complex problems. It also means you're generally a nice person.
  • You have a strong knowledge of the social landscape. You like to present creative and account with new technologies and ideas to help grow business.
  • You must have solid communications planning experience, including mobile/digital planning experience
  • You must have significant experience developing the communications strategies for campaigns that push the limits of social, digital and experiential marketing, ideally on youth oriented brands.
  • You must be comfortable navigating the complex worlds of many different types of companies and know how to effectively push clients toward new ways of thinking.

 

Salary Range:  $120,000- $130,000

 

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