Senior Strategist - Innovation & Brand

Senior Strategist - Innovation & Brand

Team: Mission Team

📍 Dublin | Full-Time

🚀 Work with iconic brands. Solve strategic challenges. Creatively shape the future

jump! is an innovation agency. We partner leading brands owners to make irresistible brands. From our offices in Dublin and London, we collaborate across three jump! ‘Innovation Worlds’, Mission, Dynamics and Invention, each with its own team and expertise centre.

What we’re looking for

Smarts and ambition.

Drive to improve your craft and deliver progressive work.

Openness to ideas, new ways, new people.

Passion for brands; marketing; strategy.

At jump!, we help clients progress through sharp brand strategy, human insights and breakthrough innovation. We are an agency trusted by Jameson, Flutter, Red Bull Racing, Heineken, Honda and Nestlé to solve their biggest brand, positioning and innovation challenges.

We’re looking for a Senior Strategist to join our Mission Team, the beating heart of our strategic work, to deliver sharp thinking, bold creativity and commercial clarity.

This role is perfect for someone who is:

• Energised by big challenges, high standards, and real impact
• Loves to deliver great work
• Strategically sharp and commercially aware
• Fast-learning, curious and creatively ambitious
• Fluent in brand, marketing or innovation
• Relationally strong, a natural collaborator with senior clients

Working with, and reporting to an Innovation Director, you’ll need around 5-8 years of experience in brand management, strategy, brand innovation, brand consulting [RM5] or marketing planning but it’s your impact, ideas and presence that matter most.

What you’ll do

You’ll lead strategic work that drives change for clients, across geographies and sectors, in fast-paced and ambitious teams. That includes:

• Leading strategy across brand positioning, innovation and architecture
• Facilitating client workshops that spark ideas and align teams
• Turning insight and cultural signals into creative, commercial direction
• Building trusted relationships with senior clients and collaborators
• Contributing to pitches and new business efforts
• Coaching junior strategists and contributing to the Senior Leadership Team

Why join jump!?

We’re a team of strategic thinkers and creative problem-solvers. We move fast, think big, and care deeply about the impact of our work.

We offer:

• Real development: coaching, personal training budgets, and 6-week jump!Starter onboarding
• Global impact: strategy work across 25+ markets
• Collaborative culture: elite performance and genuine care
• Diverse client work: from food to drinks, tech to tourism

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience shaping brand, innovation or growth strategies
• Desire and willingness to learn and grow
• Confidence leading high-stakes conversations with senior clients
• Curiosity about people, markets, trends, culture, strategy, and what moves brands
• Ability to move fast and stay sharp even in ambiguity
• High standards for both thinking and delivery
• Strong verbal, visual and written communication
• A natural team player who lifts others and brings energy to the team

The package

• Competitive salary
• ‘jump! life' benefits across: Your Money; Your Time; Your Growth; Your Health; Your Future

Examples

• 25 days holidays (ex. Public Holidays)
• Two ‘Work-From-Abroad’ weeks
• Christmas closure (c3 days)
• Hybrid working (3 days in office)
• Budget for ongoing professional and personal development
• Coaching, peer support and access to senior leadership
• Broadband (part) & Mobile covered
• Health & Wellness Allowance
• Six-week sabbatical after 4 years
• Full list available during the interview process
  

Apply with, and in, confidence

If you like what you hear so far and if you meet the qualifications for the role, we would love to hear from you. An on-point intro letter and resumé would be great to kick off. We’ll acknowledge receipt and let you know any next steps.

jobs@jumpinnovates.com

Thank you!
jump! team.