Head of Strategy

The role

The Head of Strategy will evolve the strategic practice at MATTE by bridging culture, insight, and creativity. This person will lead strategy across brand, campaign, content, and experience pillars while partnering with executive leadership to scale the agency's strategic offering.

What you will do

• Define and evolve MATTE's strategic practice, methodologies, and POV.
• Partner with Executive Leadership to grow strategy as a core capability.
• Champion thought leadership internally and externally.
• Serve as a senior strategic lead on key client accounts.
• Lead strategic development across brand initiatives, social, content, and experiential programs.
• Uncover deep insights to inform creative development.
• Hire, manage, and mentor a multidisciplinary team of strategists.
• Develop proprietary research tools, methodologies, and cultural frameworks.
• Act as a partner to Creative, Production, Accounts, and New Business teams.
• Contribute to new business efforts, proposals, and pitch strategy.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in brand, creative, and cultural strategy within a top-tier creative or advertising agency environment.
• Expertise across campaign, brand, social, content, culture, experiential, research and insights.
• Proven experience leading integrated strategy across multiple accounts and industries.
• Demonstrated success in building and scaling strategic teams and functions.
• Deep understanding of cultural and consumer behavior trends.
• Strong communicator and storyteller.
• Collaborative leader.
• Proficiency in qualitative and quantitative research techniques, trend analysis, and insight generation.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
• 401(k) with a 4% company contribution max match, eligible after 6 months of employment
• Fully covered yearly Citi Bike membership
• Talkspace membership
• Competitive PTO package
• End of Year Recharge paid time off
• Sabbatical Program option after three years of employment
• Parental Leave for all new parents

About the company

MATTE is a 360° full-service creative studio at the convergence of hype, storytelling and design. Their studio capabilities range from strategic ideation and insights to full-scale production and execution.