Director, Strategy

About the role

As Director, Strategy at Joseph Bridge, you will serve as a senior strategic advisor to clients facing consequential marketing decisions, organizational complexity, and periods of transformation. You will oversee multiple engagements, work directly with executive leadership, guide consulting teams, and ensure our recommendations reflect rigorous analysis, independent judgment, and strategic clarity. Beyond individual engagements, you will contribute to the intellectual development of Joseph Bridge—strengthening our methodologies, perspectives, research, and standards for strategic consulting. This is a senior strategy and advisory position. Joseph Bridge remains independent from marketing execution, allowing our consultants to recommend what is right for the client without incentives tied to implementation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior strategic advisor to executives, marketing leaders, and other key decision-makers.
• Oversee multiple complex consulting engagements and maintain responsibility for the quality of strategic work.
• Define the strategic questions, hypotheses, and analytical frameworks guiding major engagements.
• Lead executive discovery sessions, interviews, workshops, and strategic presentations.
• Diagnose underlying strategic gaps affecting marketing performance and organizational direction.
• Develop and challenge recommendations before they are presented to client leadership.
• Guide Engagement Managers and consulting teams throughout the engagement process.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Help clients evaluate competing priorities and make difficult marketing decisions with greater clarity.
• Contribute to Joseph Bridge research, methodologies, perspectives, and intellectual capital.
• Mentor and develop consultants across the firm.
• Identify opportunities where Joseph Bridge can provide meaningful strategic counsel while protecting the firm's independence and standards.
• Represent the firm's point of view in select client, industry, and thought-leadership settings.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in marketing strategy, management consulting, corporate strategy, brand strategy, or senior marketing leadership.
• Significant experience advising senior executives and organizational leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, high-stakes strategic engagements.
• Exceptional strategic judgment and structured problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong understanding of marketing strategy, positioning, customer behavior, organizational dynamics, and performance.
• Exceptional executive communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing consulting or strategy teams.
• Ability to form clear conclusions despite incomplete or conflicting information.
• Strong intellectual curiosity and willingness to challenge conventional thinking.
• High standards of professional judgment, discretion, and integrity.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience; advanced degree welcomed but not required.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• Flexible and hybrid work arrangements.
• Professional development and continued learning opportunities.
• Direct involvement in consequential strategic engagements.
• Opportunity to shape the methodologies and intellectual direction of a growing consulting firm.
• Significant leadership responsibility and potential for advancement within the firm.
• A consulting environment centered on independence, rigorous thinking, integrity, and strategic clarity.