About Interbrand
Interbrand understands what it takes today to build the world's most iconic brands.
To support our clients in an ever more complex and fascinating world, we have renewed our commitment to both common global standards and greater empowerment, experimentation and entrepreneurialism.
Interbrand is its people. We are a global team of highly diverse thinkers, makers and collaborators. We are proud of our heritage and often regarded as the university of branding. Over the past four decades, we have pioneered iconic work and invented many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace.
In collaboration with many of the world's leading brands, we are pioneering the future of brand building. In a world where people's expectations are moving faster than businesses, we give our clients the confidence to make Iconic Moves that create desire and utility, reshape the competitive landscape and drive extraordinary results.
The Interbrand Best Global Brands study/rankings are resources to our clients and the industry, providing proprietary data and insight for our role as client partner and commentator. We have published 18 books on brands and are often the reference point for university curriculum and professional associations. Today, through our own Academy, we aim to be the most impactful learning environment in the marketing world.
Our Behaviours
Our culture is informed by a set of behaviours we co-created as a business. Our behaviours give us space to experiment, permission to speak out, and a model of leadership that anyone in the business can adopt. Our behaviours are Lead with love, Be Brave, Listen First and Make it happen. We are proud of our behaviours. They make us, us.
THE ROLE:
Your passion for branding and innate curiosity has led you to Interbrand. You have strong creative abilities that you can pair with strategic thinking to solve big challenges and help grow the largest brands and businesses in the world. At Interbrand you will create iconic work that defines customer expectations across the globe and creates growth for all.
We're looking for someone who's excited about everything to do with words: creating names, developing unique voices, turning strategy into storytelling. Someone who knows how to write well, and how to think and talk about how their writing fits into the broader world of strategy and design. Someone who wants to work on brands from any and every industry, from materials science to consumer electronics. Someone excited to have an eleven-syllable job title. Someone with opinions, and the ability to express them.
A successful candidate will have held a leadership role at a major branding or consulting firm with a focus on verbal identity, strategy and client development. You must be well versed in branding as a core competency and have expertise in voice, messaging and content strategy, content creation; naming is plus.

• Tap creative/strategic writing skills to build brands
• Collaborate to create positioning, names, voice, messaging and content strategy, and content through services and experiences
• Work effectively with cross-disciplinary teams
• Contribute significantly to advancing verbal identity practices by continuously improving our quality and methodologies, and developing intellectual property
• Lead Interbrand's verbal work on medium and large accounts with multiple projects by:
• Understanding your clients' businesses and cultures, and using that understanding to deliver work that will be effective
• Presenting that work to clients and internal teams, including senior executives, with energy and credibility
• Managing, teaching, and guiding junior staff
• Managing revenue, costs, and resourcing
• Working effectively with senior account leads
• Develop new business through pitching, advising, and scope writing

ABOUT YOU:

• Backgrounds of interest include any verbal-focused or writing-intensive field (e.g. Linguistics, Creative Writing, Foreign Language, Philosophy, etc...)
• Strong track record in branding, advertising, or related field either client or agency-side
• Experience giving direction by writing a creative brief and taking direction from creative briefs
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office emphasis on PowerPoint and/or Keynote
• Proficiency in more clever presentation tools that don't rely on PowerPoint
• Knowledge of naming, foreign languages and/or trademarks is a plus
• Ability to work collaboratively to synthesize insights and develop new ideas
• Ability to consistently deliver quality creative work under pressure

COMPENSATION:

• Director base salary range of $150K to $200K; Senior Director base salary range of $200 to $230K
• This range represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of Interbrand in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience; training; associated responsibilities; other business and organizational needs; and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.
• Benefits for this role include: Health/Vision/Dental Insurance; Family Forming Benefits; 401(k); Employee Stock Purchase Program; Annual Education Assistance; Health and Wellness Discounts; Spending and Saving Accounts; Vacation, Sick, and Personal Days; Paid Parental and Medical Leave; Life, AD&D and Disability Insurance; EAP; Mobile Phone Reimbursement

We are building a connected, collaborative and inclusive human culture. As part of that culture, Interbrand is committed to creating spaces for open communication, transparency, and equitable support for all levels of employees. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are driving forces in how we create and embrace community while allowing our employees to refine their craft and solve problems for the world's best global brands. Interbrand has both local and global DEI Task Forces, in addition to access to the Omnicom People Engagement Network (OPEN), OPEN Pride, Omniwomen, and are proud supporters of ADCOLOR.
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