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Crown + Conquer

Global brand agency delivering immersive campaigns

Brand Strategy Director

Full-Time
No salary listed
Expert
Los Angeles, CA, USA
In Person
Growth & MarketingBrand & Creative Marketing

About the job

Requirements
  • 12–15 years of experience spanning brand strategy and operational social leadership at scale.
  • Demonstrable experience authoring brand platforms, messaging architectures, and voice guidelines that shipped and remained effective over time.
  • Strong writing and copywriting ability, including the ability to define brand voice and coach a team to execute against it.
  • Experience running social programs across multiple brands or properties simultaneously, including paid, organic, and creator-led approaches as an integrated mix.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as the senior Brand Strategist on client engagements, owning the strategic point of view, directing the work, and ensuring quality and consistency before client delivery.
  • Own the health, growth, and retention of all accounts.
  • Identify opportunities to scale revenue from existing clients through new scopes, expanded partnerships, and deeper service offerings.
  • Partner with the General Manager on commercial planning, scope discipline, and forecasting.
  • Brief the Creative Director on work involving brand or creative strategy and hold the strategic half of the work.
  • Lead brand strategy for portfolio properties and client engagements, authoring value propositions, brand promises, and messaging pillars.
  • Lead the rebuild of capability decks, pitch materials, and case studies.
  • Address the copy and storytelling gap across the portfolio by writing copy directly and coaching direct reports to a high standard.
  • Use data, consumer insights, and cultural intelligence to shape strategy.
  • Develop frameworks connecting audience attitudes and behaviors to brand messaging and channel choices.
  • Bring insights-led thinking into client strategy and agency point of view.
  • Help position the agency as a thought leader in the creator and talent partnership space.
  • Maintain awareness of creator culture, brand storytelling, and audience behavior trends and articulate them to clients and leadership.
  • Establish the measurement layer, including weekly performance dashboards, monthly executive read-outs, and quarterly strategy reviews.
  • Define key performance indicators per property and own the analytics narrative in client pitches.
  • Partner with executive leadership on pitches and proposals as the strategic voice in high-priority prospect conversations.
Desired Qualifications
  • Prior agency-side experience selling brand strategy or social as a billable capability.

About the company

Crown + Conquer helps global brands create authentic cultural moments by designing immersive campaigns and experiences that connect brands with culture and consumers. It sits at the intersection of strategy, creativity, and truth to turn bold ideas into lasting relationships, not mere impressions. The approach combines strategic insight, creative development, and experiential execution to partner with clients on campaigns that resonate across channels and contexts. Unlike many agencies that emphasize perception or flashy outputs, Crown + Conquer focuses on authenticity and cultural resonance as the core drivers of engagement, using legacy as a guiding force. The goal is to reshape the meaning of the agency model by delivering work that is grounded in truth, builds durable connections, and elevates brands within culture.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Los Angeles, California

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • Jennifer Zaitz joined as head of talent and partnerships in 2023, deepening dealmaking.
  • Signed named Christopher Gray chief creative officer in June 2026, strengthening creative firepower.
  • LACMA signed on as a creative partner, signaling fresh partnership momentum in 2026.

What critics are saying

  • Revenue depends on April McDaniel and relationships with Adidas, Google, Spotify, and Netflix.
  • Signed's new structure can distract leadership and blur Crown + Conquer's agency priorities.
  • If marquee-brand work slows, Crown + Conquer loses the cultural relevance that sells its premium positioning.

What makes Crown + Conquer unique

  • April McDaniel built Crown + Conquer in 2016 around culture-first brand experiences.
  • The agency pairs experiential work with influencer, talent, and partnerships capabilities.
  • Signed, launched June 2026 with MarcyPen, bundles Crown + Conquer with media and community.

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Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Hybrid Work Options

Paid Sick Leave

Parental Leave

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