Job Description :

Job Title: Head of Communications & Brand Strategy Agency (VP or SVP level)

Location: New York (Hybrid/ In-office 4 days per week)

About Storyful:

Storyful, a News Corp company, is a global leader in social media news and intelligence reporting. We harness data from across the digital and social media landscape to provide trusted, cross-platform content and context in a complex online information environment.

Storyful Intelligence

We help partners understand the attitudes, behaviors, and emotions shaping the world. Our mission is to provide strategic insights and counsel to business leaders in marketing and communications by delving into the nuances of social and digital media intelligence.

Job Summary:

Storyful serves leading Platforms, Corporations and Media organizations with market-leading social intelligence and strategic advice, leveraging proprietary technology for narrative, influencer and sentiment reporting.

As the leader of our Intelligence team, you will transform our boutique offering into a market-leading force in intelligence-driven marketing and communications strategy. This is a rare opportunity for a dynamic and proven agency leader to shape the strategy, business development, and client service in key verticals, including Financial Services and Pharma.

You’ll enjoy a challenging, energetic, and rewarding work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth, collaborating with customers and internal teams to create exceptional experiences and business value.

Responsibilities:

Strategy:

• Develops and executes Intelligence team’s strategy, with a focus on developing annual commercial plans to achieve revenue targets, and shaping the Intelligence team’s marketing plans

• Works with the product and technology teams to identify and integrate emerging technologies into the Intelligence suite of reporting products

• Promotes the Intelligence organization strategy by articulating goals and mission to internal and external audiences and aligning strategy with customer needs

PR & Marketing Client Strategy

• Acts as a thought leader in marketing and communications, leveraging insights from reports and team members

• Drive all aspects of client service including insights, strategy, and program development for client campaigns

• Enhances analysis and insight offerings by developing actionable insights for clients, driving ROI and tangible outcomes for clients

• Builds and develops the team to deliver exceptional results for clients

Customer/Commercial Focus:

• Fosters a customer-centric culture, optimizing service delivery to ensure client success for our clients.

• Engages deeply with clients’ businesses to enhance Storyful Intelligence's capabilities and deliver sustainable ROI

• Directs the business development team to foster new customer relationships through insightful conversations and in-person engagements, accelerating new client acquisition and growth

• Maintains close relationships with senior clients, providing ongoing counsel in navigating the dynamic business environment

• Networks strategically to evangelize the Storyful Intelligence proposition and gain insight into market trends and customer pain points

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in a marketing/communications agency, with responsibility for revenue generation and client counsel

• Exceptional communication skills, including writing, editing, storytelling, and visual communications

• Energized and motivated by driving new business growth for the organization

• A consummate networker with a robust network of contacts among senior marketing and communications professionals

• Deep understanding of the marketing and communications industry and extensive experience in crafting data-driven strategies

• A highly organized, credible leader with strong stakeholder management and consulting skills

• A capable and respected coach and leader, able to build happy, motivated and engaged teams

• Proven ability to influence and create buy-in throughout the organization

Join us in transforming Storyful's Intelligence team into a market-leading force. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for innovation and growth, we invite you to be a part of our dynamic and rewarding work environment.

Storyful is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and inclusion.

Pay Range: $210,000 -$240,000

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Job Category: Storyful - Operations

Pay Range: ($190,000) - ($240,000)

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

Storyful is the world’s social media intelligence agency.

Founded by Irish journalists as the first social media newswire, Storyful was created out of the need to break the news faster and utilize social content to add context to reporting. Acquired by News Corp in 2013, Storyful has evolved into a premium service for media, brands and communications. We are the leaders in social media contextualization and verification.

We believe social media is the key to a deeper understanding of global events and cultural phenomena. Our goal is to help our partners understand the attitudes, behaviors and emotions behind the conversations and movements shaping the world.

Powered by a unique ability to gather and streamline data from all corners of an increasingly complex media landscape, our team of journalists and researchers deliver clarity in a world of confusion. Our mission is to dig deeper into the nuance inherent in social media to establish context, verify the truth and, ultimately, to help our partners make sense of the world.