[Hiring] Senior Strategist @LINK

Role Description

LINK is actively seeking a Senior Strategist to join our dynamic team, where we leverage strong partnerships and a robust portfolio of clients across diverse industries. As a Senior Strategist, you will:

• Interface directly with clients to understand their unique challenges.
• Provide consultative strategy and executive solutions.
• Distill narratives from client-provided content.
• Work with the creative team to execute visual products appropriate to the client’s brand, industry, and culture.
• Collaborate with team members across the organization to uncover meaningful insights.
• Build game-changing strategies and deliver client-oriented solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communication, English, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in strategic communication, public affairs, program management, or strategy development.
• Ability to build and maintain robust client relationships and foster positive interpersonal connections.
• Interest in visual storytelling, including data visualization and conceptualizing abstract ideas.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining a strong focus on accuracy and attention to detail.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate in a clear, approachable, and knowledgeable manner.

Requirements

• Partner directly with clients to understand challenges, capture requirements, and define missions, visions, goals, and KPIs/OKRs.
• Collaborate with clients through well-designed meetings and workshops to co-create solutions and gather critical inputs.
• Perform high-quality primary and secondary research to inform strategic direction.
• Apply human-centered design and design-thinking principles to complex problem sets.
• Work iteratively by proactively gathering feedback from clients and internal partners to refine solutions.
• Identify opportunities to create tangible business value through current-state assessments and high-level requirement definition.
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships, including managing external stakeholders and converting new requests into business opportunities.
• Oversee multiple client engagements, ensuring alignment, clarity, and strategic impact across projects.
• Elevate content quality and thought leadership in partnership with the Strategy Competency Manager, ensuring strong standards for deliverables.
• Translate ideas into compelling strategic narratives, campaigns, and solutions.
• Identify content structures, hierarchies, and visual concepts for storytelling products, including content maps and wireframes.
• Collaborate with design teams to develop infographics, charts, diagrams, presentations, and other visual products that convey complex information clearly.
• Manage multiple internal project teams, organizing assignments and tracking progress, deadlines, and deliverables from both operational and financial perspectives.

Benefits

• $100 monthly internet/cell phone stipend.
• LINK sponsored healthcare benefits including medical, dental, vision.
• Company-paid Short Term Disability Insurance.
• 401K with employer contribution of up to 4%.
• 11 Federal Holidays per year.
• 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year.
• Paid Holiday Time Off (Christmas Eve through the New Year).
• Annual bonus plan participation.
• Annual profit sharing participation.
• $2,000 Learning and Development program reimbursement.
• Technology package that includes a LINK-owned MacBook Pro, monitor, mouse, and keyboard.