Making Brands Famous Since ’97, UNIT9 is a global production partner with the sole mission to create astounding experiences at the intersection of world-class creativity, cutting-edge technology and impeccable craftsmanship.

Built from a multidisciplinary team of visionaries, we are experts in experience – skilled across: Virtual and Hybrid experiences, Augmented Reality, Film & Animation, Product Design, Experiential, Emerging technologies, Digital, Gaming and Experience Design. We are looking for a Strategy Director freelancer to join our awesome team!

Main Tasks:

Help hone and sharpen our POV across digital and experiential. Contribute to thought leadership and lead research initiatives across consumer, culture, competitive and category.
Support the development of a strategy practice that organically strengthens and extends UNIT9’s creative and innovation capabilities.
Serve as client-facing strategy lead on projects, leading the work and helping to identify and source support specialists as needed.
Advocate for both audience and brand, creating mutually beneficial value exchanges that come to life through engaging campaigns, creative technology and/or interactive experiences.
Author and lead client-facing workshops.
Work with New Business and client team to identify strategy needs within a new project, and collaborate with appropriate team members on proposals and responses.
Work with Production team to ensure strategy deliverables are costed, managed and executed flawlessly.
Partner and support the creative team as needed in the development of new concepts and creative.
Act as the strategic lead on assigned projects and partnerships.
Support and at times lead the development of strategic frameworks, tools and processes.

Requirements

Deep understanding of the digital marketing and activation landscape
Superior presentation and written communication skills
Strong research and analytical capabilities
Comfortable turning nebulous asks into well articulated opportunities
Experience with UX a (very) nice to have
Curious and collaborative

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About The Company

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Making brands famous since ’97, UNIT9 is a global innovation partner with the sole mission of creating astounding experiences at the intersection of world-class creativity, cutting-edge technology and impeccable craftsmanship.

Built from a multidisciplinary team of visionaries, we are experts in experience and skilled across: Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Hybrid experiences, Augmented Reality, Film & Animation, Product Design, Experiential, Emerging Technologies, Digital, Gaming and Experience Design.

It’s why AdAge crowned us Production Company of the Year in 2019 and Campaign announced us Tech Company of the Year two years running in 2020 and 2021.

From drawing on mountains with Twitter-controlled robots to deepfaking Lionel Messi and creating a 5G-enabled AR red carpet dress, UNIT9 are forever learning, testing, building and making, and have been at the bleeding-edge of innovation for the past 25+ years.

200 people, 5 offices, 9 time-zones: One company, One Goal: Make Incredible Work.