Overview
Being a Strategist is all about learning through doing and building confidence along the way. As an associate strategist, you do a lot of research, a lot of observing and a lot of listening. This is where you start if you have little to no experience, but promising potential. Influencer strategy is a constant process of interrogating, distilling and inspiring. Being an associate strategist focuses primarily on that first piece of the process—gaining experience with all the various ways you can create and execute strategies that result in successful influencer campaigns that achieve a brand’s goals - and reporting on its potential success.

Responsibilities
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● Begin to hone skills to develop influencer/talent strategies as well as support the account team on the day-to-day management of the mobile marketing client.
● Create and maintain strong client relationships across the brand and with partner agencies.
● Work alongside Influencer Strategy, Social Strategy, and Account leads to develop best-in-class innovative thinking for every client assignment.
● Digest and understand complex/sophisticated client briefs, flagging follow-up questions or proactive idea territory beyond direct ask.
● Create and conduct influencer briefs for creatives and influencers.
● Develop and articulate innovative influencer strategies (via outlines & slides) that achieve clients’ goals and incorporate best practices of organic and paid social campaigns.
● Explore new territory and ideas, including creative concepts, platforms, services, and approaches.
● Provide guidance, contributions, and feedback on deliverables, including influencer recommendations, creative briefs and content strategy.
● Identify opportunities to optimize and pivot based on performance, trends, or client needs, including development of new materials or workflows.
● Proactively identify and articulate incremental opportunities that further clients’ goals and expand our work based on performance and cultural trends.

● Work with analytics to develop hypotheses for content performance and ensure set-up and early measurement.
● During analytic presentations, lean into the story & narrative of content performance, probing program performance and insights to develop an insightful and actionable wrap.
● Develop an understanding and strategic perspective of new reporting tools, solutions, and offerings, helping teams apply them strategically to proposals/programs as needed and surface trends and learnings across accounts.
● Surface qualitative performance trends, optimization opportunities and test & learn territories with actionable recommendations for quick application within the work.

Competencies
● Creativity. Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
● Interpersonal Savvy. Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organizations; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
● Learning on the Fly. Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to
improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
● Listening. Practices attentive and active listening; has the patience to hear people out; can accurately restate the opinions of others even when they disagree.
● Problem Solving. Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources of answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.

Professional Skills & Knowledge
● Knowledge or passion of the social/digital space and influencer marketing, including but not limited to influencer/talent search and acquisition, content development, and management of social platform ins and outs.
● Both left and right-brain thinker: equally comfortable with data and creative thinking.
● Superior written and verbal communication skills and the proven ability to consistently make sound judgments
● Strong organization skills with attention to detail and excellent follow-through.
● Ability to work efficiently across a variety of tasks and manage time appropriately for projects.

● Strong collaborator who can bring out the best in agency talent to produce great work for clients.
● Passion for pop culture/insights and trends

Experience
0-3 years of related experience

Salary Range

Our estimated range for this role is $60k - $70k

Compensation packages are based on the skill level and experience each candidate brings to their role. There may also be a more senior or junior position available that could be a better fit with your expertise. Each level has its own compensation range.

We pride ourselves on competitive salaries, and ensuring pay equity exists across our organization. We benchmark each position against existing employee competencies and 4As compensation data which includes geographic and agency size benchmarks. We also meet with department leaders 3x/year to ensure we are supporting employees in living into their full potential.  Our promotions are not limited to a specific time per year. Promotions are tied to performance.  

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McKinney is a place where everyone can grow. Studies have shown that marginalized communities  such as women, LGBTQ+ and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. However you identify, and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.

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