About Interbrand
Interbrand understands what it takes today to build the world’s most iconic brands.
To support our clients in an ever more complex and fascinating world, we have renewed our commitment to both common global standards and greater empowerment, experimentation and entrepreneurialism.
Interbrand is its people. We are a global team of highly diverse thinkers, makers and collaborators. We are proud of our heritage and often regarded as the university of branding. Over the past four decades, we have pioneered iconic work and invented many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace.
In collaboration with many of the world’s leading brands, we are pioneering the future of brand building. In a world where people’s expectations are moving faster than businesses, we give our clients the confidence to make Iconic Moves that create desire and utility, reshape the competitive landscape and drive extraordinary results.
The Interbrand Best Global Brands study/rankings are resources to our clients and the industry, providing proprietary data and insight for our role as client partner and commentator. We have published 18 books on brands and are often the reference point for university curriculum and professional associations. Today, through our own Academy, we aim to be the most impactful learning environment in the marketing world.
Our Behaviours
Our culture is informed by a set of behaviours we co-created as a business. Our behaviours give us space to experiment, permission to speak out, and a model of leadership that anyone in the business can adopt. Our behaviours are Lead with love, Be Brave, Listen First and Make it happen. We are proud of our behaviours. They make us, us.
The opportunity
You're a reliable driver of creative work, leading defined streams within medium-to-large projects. You shape creative territories from strategy and will be hands on to train junior talent to develop their craft, walking them through our tools, frameworks and ways of working. You're deepening your own originality and learning to connect great design with real commercial impact for clients.
What you’ll be doing
- Develop intelligent creative platforms from strategy that are distinctive and strong enough to travel beyond presentations
- Shape concept strategy and translate big ideas into systems and experiences that work across different touchpoints
- Create frameworks that scale coherently across channels and can be applied by the team
- Be in the room with clients, present the story to ignite excitement and buy in of creative solutions that will help them solve their brand or business challenges
- Inspire clients through local market knowledge of trends, articles, art, AI innovation by sending a monthly email bulletin / newsletter
- Go to market relevant creative events to feed inspiration and curiosity and understand the audiences to unlock iconic moves for our clients
- Lead junior designers, modeling pace and craft standards, providing feedback that helps them grow through a mix of side by side work, feedback, and worksession hackathons
- Delegate and oversee workflow across your team, coordinate with production and delivery teams on feasibility and cost
- Manage deadlines, deliverables, and budgets, ensuring everything is accurate and on track
- Present work clearly to clients, framing decisions through our Three Lenses and showing how they connect to business outcomes
- Set and uphold standards from concept through to production-ready output
- Experiment with tools and methods that help us work smarter and share learning with the team
- Contribute to building our Academy content, sharing references and methods that strengthen our craft
- Speak at local University or College career forums or creative inspiration sessions, representing Interbrand and making connections with young talent
What we’re looking for
Experience
Portfolio demonstrating systems thinking and how design works across multiple channels. Proven track record of owning major workstreams from concept to delivery with measurable impact on client brand and business.
Craft
You synthesize insights into sharp, distinctive concepts. You create few strong routes rather than many options. You push originality with purpose, knowing when to be bold and when to show restraint.
Collaboration
You work seamlessly with strategists and writers, co-creating in workshops and shaping how different perspectives come together in the final work.
Leadership
You guide junior talent to develop their craft and confidence. You set standards and help people understand the thinking behind decisions. You create an environment where people do their best work.
Communication
You tell stories about your work with clarity and conviction. You invite input from different people and synthesize it into stronger directions. You present to clients with confidence.
Ownership
You plan your workstreams and own outcomes. You meet deadlines and raise risks early with solutions. You think about how your work connects to broader business goals.
Comp: $90,000-$120,000
Why Interbrand
For over 50 years, we’ve been shaping the world’s most iconic brands. We solve brand challenges through our Thinking & Making approach, combining Human Truth, Brand Economics, and Experience to help our clients make the moves that unlock growth and define what’s next.
We nurture a global community of thinkers and makers with the curiosity and confidence to create iconic work. Here, you’ll find transparent career pathways, on-demand learning, honest feedback, real collaboration across borders, and a culture that champions difference and wellbeing.
We don’t do ordinary. And we don’t expect you to either.
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What We Do
Interbrand has been a world leading brand consultancy, for over 45 years – having pioneered iconic work and forged many of the brand building tools that are commonplace across the industry today. We know that in an age of unprecedented abundance of choice and speed of innovation, customers’ expectations are moving faster than business. While incremental change is still essential, it is no longer sufficient. It takes bold moves to leap ahead of customers and competitors. We call these moves Iconic Moves. In collaboration with the world’s leading brands, our global team of thinkers and makers are pioneering the future of brand building. By turning customers into active participants, we help our clients strengthen their brands on an ongoing basis – our approach gives them confidence to make Iconic Moves that spark desire and create utility, driving extraordinary results. Interbrand is a part of Omnicom Group (NYSE:OMC).
