Strategy Director

Instrument

Strategy Director at Instrument leading strategy and UX for multiple brand and digital projects. Responsible for high-level client relationships and strategic team leadership across initiatives.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $150,000 - $185,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the senior strategic lead across multiple client engagements and portfolios simultaneously.
Ensure strategic rigor, clarity, and coherence across projects, from discovery through delivery.
Oversee and guide strategists and teams through ambiguity and complexity by applying sound judgment while maintaining quality standards across the work.
Bring expert-level fluency in UX and brand strategy for digital experiences.
Balance and integrate brand thinking with detailed UX; comfortable operating across both with equal rigor.
Apply experience strategy to complex, multi-touchpoint engagements involving brand, content, and digital product.
Actively contribute to 2-3 pitches at a time in collaboration with creative, design, and account disciplines.
Get up to speed quickly on new categories and client contexts with minimal ramp time.
Bring a sharp, distinctive strategic POV to pitch situations; confident presenting to senior and executive stakeholders.
Partner with discipline and studio leadership to identify and pursue new business opportunities.
Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior and executive-level client stakeholders.
Partner with Client Executive Directors and account leadership to identify and grow new opportunities.
Present strategic direction and recommendations with confidence, credibility, and influence.
Balance client advocacy with business objectives and delivery realities.
Hire, manage, and develop strategists across levels, building a strong and resilient team.
Define, codify, and implement clear, repeatable strategic standards and frameworks that elevate quality, improve efficiency, and create consistency across engagements and teams.
Contribute to internal learning, workshops, and knowledge sharing that scale best practices across the discipline.
Continuously evolve the discipline by identifying gaps, raising the bar for quality, and ensuring standards keep pace with the work and market within the assigned Studio.
Set clear expectations for performance, growth, and accountability, and hold leaders accountable for outcomes.
Foster a culture of strategic excellence, collaboration, and inclusion.
Ensure team health, resourcing balance, and sustainable delivery.
Support team structure and scoping needs for net-new projects.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You’ve led strategy at a senior level and are comfortable operating across multiple projects, teams, or accounts—balancing depth with breadth.
You bring a broad set of strategy skills across brand, digital, product, content, and marketing, with deeper expertise in at least a few of these areas.
You’re skilled at connecting insights to action—using research, synthesis, and storytelling to shape clear, compelling strategic direction.
You’re an effective facilitator and communicator, able to lead workshops, guide conversations, and influence senior stakeholders with confidence and clarity.
You have experience building and leading teams—setting expectations, developing talent, and creating a strong, collaborative culture.
You understand how to balance client needs, business goals, and delivery realities—making decisions that are both ambitious and practical.
You’re curious about emerging tools and technologies, and you apply sound judgment about how they can meaningfully improve the work.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible, Hybrid Work Environment
Great Compensation with Annual Reviews (Learn more about our Pay Philosophy)
401(k) Matching with Immediate Vesting
Robust Medical, Vision, and Accident Insurance
Generous Paid Holidays and unlimited PTO
Monthly Wellbeing Stipend
Career Management and Leadership Training

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Hard Skills & Tools

UX strategybrand strategyexperience strategycontent strategydigital product strategyresearch synthesisstorytellingstrategic frameworksperformance managementteam development

Soft Skills

strategic leadershipeffective communicationfacilitationinfluencecollaborationclient advocacydecision makingcuriosityteam buildingaccountability