Compensation Overview

• Client | Present directly to clients, gaining their trust by telling a concise and compelling story to explain our strategies and approach. Provide strategic direction to Account teams for brands across the digital ecosystem, in addition to partnering with creative and brand teams to create and update case studies each quarter that illustrate the compelling stories on our best work.
• Team | Act as a point-person for creative briefing. Collaborate, influence, and inform creative and strategy teams to solve business problems and unify teams and clients. Provide inspiration, strategic oversight and ensure the work gets noticed, used, and appreciated. Foster empathy, critical thinking, and passion for solving meaningful problems. Collaborate with Project Managers to develop and manage realistic timelines and project plans.
• Innovation| Develop an industry-leading approaches to trend forecasting and setting. Be curious about people and culture, open to new ideas and perspectives on brands. Identify new tools, and emerging technologies to identifying disruptive innovations throughout a brand experience.

• Proven expertise in trend forecasting and strategic thinking.
• Passionate and curious about understanding people and their needs, to drive to find consumer insights and create effective strategies.
• Synthesizing and translating information into cohesive and concise thoughts and plans.
• Excellent storytelling skills to create engaging solutions for clients
• Be the lightning rod between Research and Planning
• Work across a variety of brands

• You’re smart, collaborative, flexible, and confident in standing up for your ideas.
• You have an entrepreneurial attitude coupled with a strong business acumen. Ability and appetite to bring people together. Innate ability to marshal people and create gravity around ideas.
• You’re infinitely interested in understanding people and a natural-born storyteller
• You’ve got 3-5 years’ experience in an insights or strategy/planning role
• Comfort with a flexible working style, keeping up with fast-paced accounts and comfortable with shifting focus as business needs develop.
• You’ve got experience/ a passion for technology brands and/or new energy solutions
• Comfort with complex categories that are not simple to understand (on the surface!)

The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $60,000 to $140,000 . Individual compensation varies based on job related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, clickherefor more details.

At VML, we are committed to fostering an all-inclusive work environment that is both rewarding and career-forward. Our Inclusion, Equity & Belonging initiatives, alongside the VML Foundation, reflect our dedication to giving back and making a positive impact in our communities and beyond. Our people are the heartbeat of our organization—creators, doers, innovators, makers, and thinkers—who drive not just marketing, but meaningful experiences that resonate in every action and interaction.VML is a M/F Disabled and VetEEO/AA Employer.

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