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Director of Brand Strategy

Brand ManagerBrand ManagerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 51-200Since 2008H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

10 days ago

Salary

$112K - $140K / year

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglishWordPress

Job Description

Director of Brand Strategy

Teachstone

• Establish Market Authority: Define and scale the corporate brand strategy, ensuring our market positioning as the essential institutional infrastructure for interaction quality. • Verbal Identity & Brand Voice: Own, define, and govern Teachstone’s verbal identity, creating an authoritative, differentiated point of view that commands respect from policymakers, researchers, and enterprise buyers. • Ecosystem Architecture: Ensure brand consistency and absolute narrative clarity across diverse, high-stakes target audiences, programs, and B2B communication channels. • Creative Vision Ownership: Set a world-class visual identity and messaging standards, ensuring our design choices directly align with our business strategy. • Strategic Brand Refresh: Design, operationalize, and lead a comprehensive corporate brand refresh, modernizing our visual footprint while balancing historical credibility with forward-looking market authority. • Brand Governance Systems: Establish and scale brand guidelines and governance processes that empower cross-functional teams to self-activate the brand without diluting quality or consistency. • Thought Leadership Infrastructure: Build and drive our executive thought leadership strategy, transforming flagship data and research into powerful platforms that actively shape broader industry conversations. • Evidence Translation: Partner with the Research and Impact teams to translate complex, academic research and client outcomes into compelling, accessible market narratives that solve executive challenges (e.g., workforce retention, school readiness). • SEO & Content Distribution: Oversee data-driven storytelling, thought leadership pieces, and SEO content strategies to organically amplify our point of view and capture early market demand. • Strategic Website Ownership: Serve as the executive owner of Teachstone’s primary website, transforming it into the premier digital destination for brand storytelling, product positioning, and high-impact audience engagement. • UX & Conversion Balance: Lead website optimization initiatives, ruthlessly balancing authoritative brand storytelling and visual integrity with clear technical performance and lead generation frameworks. • Audience & Market Intelligence: Leverage comprehensive customer research, competitive analysis, and voice-of-the-customer loops to identify new market opportunities and adjust positioning. • Brand Measurement Frameworks: Define and track metrics to prove brand equity impact, tracking lagging indicators like brand lift, share of voice (SOV), and brand influence on pipeline/revenue. • Team Leadership: Build and manage a high-performing team across brand strategy, creative, and content, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and accountability. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, growth marketing, sales, and PR to ensure a cohesive brand experience and translate strategy into actionable creative briefs.

Job Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience across brand strategy, brand marketing, or creative content leadership. Proven experience at a company in EdTech, early childhood education, B2B SaaS, professional services, or deep mission-driven organizations is highly preferred.
  • A track record of moving a company from feature-selling to category-creation.
  • Strong strategic storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas, research, and product offerings into compelling narratives.
  • Experience overseeing creative development, including messaging, visual identity, and content strategy.
  • Experience managing and optimizing websites as a core brand and customer experience channel.
  • Strong understanding of brand measurement, market research, audience insights, and performance analytics.
  • Exceptional collaboration and influencing skills, with experience partnering across product, sales, growth marketing, customer success, and executive leadership teams.
  • Ability to balance long-term brand building with near-term business objectives and outcomes.
  • Experience with technical tools embedded in this function such as Wordpress, Adobe Suite, design tools, tracking tools, etc.
  • Experience with SEO, content distribution, and digital experience optimization.
  • Experience building, coaching, and developing high-performing teams.
  • High emotional intelligence (EQ) with a demonstrated ability to present, influence, defend creative choices, and partner directly with C-suite executives and founders.
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field preferred.

Benefits

  • Fair, Competitive Pay: We ensure equal pay for equal work, using consistent salary bands based on market benchmarks, reviewed annually. Prior salaries, negotiation skills, or fear of conflict don’t influence your pay.
  • Comprehensive benefits: Medical/dental, 401(k), PTO, insurance, development opportunities. Details provided at offer. Eligibility depends on your role and employment status.

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