Senior Brand Strategist
- Full-time
Company Description
Job Description
You will be part of the team that’s redefining how we communicate the Square brand story, using brand strategy and data driven insights to craft GTM strategies and messaging. You will help define how our brand story translates across a range of dimensions globally— messaging and creative, tone of voice, naming, design, media, and experience.
You will provide strategic guidance and help drive communication planning to develop integrated marketing strategies. Helping to create messaging frameworks and briefs, identifying and crafting the right message to reach our target audience in the right way.
You will also be responsible for laying the strategic foundation for the Square brand, building self-serve tools like guidelines, how-tos, and templates, and championing the brand internally. As part of this, you will work closely with our creative team, product stakeholders, partners and the central marketing organization. You will help your colleagues understand the brand, be inspired by it, and use it. You will monitor brand health metrics and competitive insights to help keep the brand focused, yet fresh.
Here are a few of the projects you would either lead or collaborate on:
Visual System: Collaborate with and support our creative team as we audit, explore, and redefine Square’s visual look and feel to make it authentic and distinctive
Brand Architecture: Help external audiences understand Square's offering better by defining visual and verbal relationships between products, services, and programming
Guidelines: Co-create guidelines and other self-serve tools that explain the brand’s “why” (rationale behind brand decisions) and “how” (what colleagues and partners need to know to use it)
Messaging: Develop and apply messaging frameworks so we tell a consistent story
Voice: Collaborate with copywriters, content strategists, and marketers to define and infuse our brand voice in all of our writing
Research:
Monitor brand health metrics and collaborate with our Brand Insights colleagues to build a plan to improve them
Collaborate with Brand Insights to identify, design, and analyze additional brand research, e.g., testing brand relationships or visual design; message testing by segment
Be our in-house expert on competitor brand moves
Briefings: Communicate brand strategy through inspiring and actionable briefs to bring the brand to life externally (e.g., the website, marketing campaigns, events)
Hands-on problem solving: Help colleagues understand and use brand strategy tools; identify creative, on-brand solutions that accomplish their objectives
Qualifications
About you:
You’ve always considered yourself both a right-brain and left-brain person—you blend creative thinking with analytical rigor
You are passionate about branding and want to learn from industry experts
You’re excited to be a champion for our customers, rooting for entrepreneurs and small business owners
You’re a natural storyteller, using language that captures people’s attention and imagination
You’re savvy with numbers and enjoy supporting a storyline with data
You bring a can-do positive spirit to everything you do
You know how to move quickly without compromising quality
You’re ambitious and want to be part of something big
You naturally take a global-first mindset
Cross-team collaboration? You can’t imagine working any other way
Qualifications:
BA/BS degree or equivalent
Minimum 5-7 years of experience in brand strategy (on the consulting/agency side and/or in-house)
Fantastic writing skills (e.g., storytelling, messaging, brand guidelines copy)
Strong interpersonal skills to work with customers and colleagues across the organization
Comfort with interpreting research findings—qualitative and quantitative—into actionable learnings and implications
Ability and willingness to conduct qualitative research (e.g., 1:1 interviews, small workshops) with colleagues and customers
Proven ability to excel in a fast-paced collaborative work environment and manage multiple projects at once
Curiosity and willingness to constantly learn
Experience in technology a plus
Additional Information
Perks
At Square, we want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness perks
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible time off
- Learning and Development resources