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.

The opportunity
You're a strategist who turns complexity into clarity and insight into action. You see the signal in the noise, ask better questions, and aren't afraid to challenge the brief.

At Interbrand, you'll work across teams on brand, business, and experience projects for some of the world's most ambitious organizations. You’ll be exposed to clients in market, presenting powerful ideas to strengthen relationships and mentor junior members of the team to ensure we nurture the future talent.

You'll bring ideas, challenge assumptions, and execute your work to the highest standard, contributing thinking to make iconic work and elevate brands.

What you'll be doing

• Apply Interbrand's Thinking & Making approach and Three Lenses (Human Truth, Brand Economics, Experience) to solve client challenges and build strategies that connect across disciplines

• Bring in Arenas thinking and Three Lenses frameworks to diagnose what matters most and shape strategies that unlock growth

• Contribute to strategy projects, doing the deep work, synthesizing research, data, and insights into clear narratives and recommendations
• Diagnose and reframe client challenges, spot opportunities others miss, and bring a point of view that shifts the conversation
• Craft sharp, persuasive presentations and deliver them with confidence to client stakeholders
• Travel to client site building rapport, trust and signaling true partnership 
• Collaborate seamlessly with creative, client service, and analytics teams to deliver integrated solutions
• Host internal work sessions to boost ideation across departments and practice facilitation skills
• Mentor junior strategists working hands on to show them our frameworks, provide thoughtful feedback, and help raise the quality of thinking across the team
• Track category innovation and cultural shifts
• Collate, filter and present market cultural knowledge, trends and innovations as a monthly email bulletin or newsletter to clients
• Balance multiple projects, meet deadlines, manage budgets, and ensure client satisfaction
• Be part of our rich and active internal sharing forums for inspiration and innovation
  
  

What we're looking for

Experience
You've worked on complex challenges and know how to navigate ambiguity either in agencies or within consultancies.

Strategic thinking
You synthesize information, research, data, trends and turn it into frameworks and narratives that guide decision-making. You're comfortable leading research, facilitating workshops, and building strategies from scratch.

Communication
You write clearly and persuasively. You present confidently. You adapt your style to different audiences.

Collaboration
You thrive working with people from different disciplines and cultures. You know when to lead, when to listen, and how to bring out the best in others.

Independence and ownership
You take initiative, manage your time, and deliver high-quality work even when juggling multiple priorities.

Curiosity
You stay sharp by reading, learning, and paying attention to the world around you.

Comp: $100,00-$125,000

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.

The opportunity

You're a thinker and maker who leads the creative team on major engagements. You set a strong creative point of view and coach the team to deliver their best work, elevating not just what we deliver but how we work. You're connecting creative excellence with commercial outcomes and contributing to how Interbrand is known in the market.

You're a holistic creative who architects comprehensive brand systems that work intelligently and beautifully across all consumer touchpoints—physical, digital, social, and emerging platforms. You're proficient in emerging creative tools and AI applications, and you have the judgment to know when to use them to amplify creative work and when craft must be unmediated. You shape how your team approaches tool selection, emerging technologies, and cross-channel design thinking.

What you’ll be doing

• Interrogate briefs with strategy and client management, reframing challenges to unlock distinctive creative opportunities
• Lead the creative platform on your projects, architecting scalable systems that work coherently across all touchpoints, including web, mobile, social, physical retail, packaging, events and emerging channels.
• Identify and frame potential iconic moves, testing feasibility with delivery and challenging the team to think bigger. Consider how the ideas can travel across contexts to better resonate with the audience.
• Build senior relationships with clients and partners, leading co-creation sessions that shape decisions
• Develop your team, coaching individuals towards their potential and creating space for originality to emerge. Encourage them to think across channels and think about the whole consumer journey.
• Structure how creative work flows, setting rituals and reviews that keep momentum and quality high
• Own creative delivery, managing scope, budget, and timeline while anticipating and mitigating risks
• Provide critique that's clear and decisive, holding the quality bar and ensuring production-ready work
• Present your work with conviction, connecting human insight, commercial value, and experience together
• Stay ahead of tools, methods, and emerging practices, bringing these into how our team works. Help evaluate new design software, AI tools and other emerging technologies that will help strengthen the creative capability within the company.
• Contribute to proposals, building cases for investment, and elevating Interbrand's reputation through awards and recognition
• Partner with Brand Economics, understanding impact and using that to inform creative priorities

What we’re looking for:

Experience
Proven track record leading creative work on significant client engagements. Portfolio showing systems excellence and how ideas work across multiple channels and touchpoints.

Demonstrated expertise in holistic brand design with evidence of leading projects where a single identity system performs effectively across radically different contexts and platforms. Proficiency with emerging creative tools; understanding of how AI can enhance creative work.

Craft
You bring clarity about what's distinctive and why it matters. You generate routes that unlock both commercial value and memorable experiences. You know the difference between good and great. You understand how to design systems that are coherent yet flexible and how a brand can feel unified across touchpoints while adapting intelligently to context, audience, and channel requirements.

Collaboration
You work seamlessly across disciplines, bringing strategy and delivery into creative conversations. You navigate tensions between vision and feasibility thoughtfully, not by compromising either.

Leadership
You develop people and bring out their best work. You coach individuals, create space for contribution, and help the team understand the thinking behind decisions. You shape how your team thinks about and works with emerging tools, balancing technological curiosity with craft standards.

Communication
You tell compelling stories about your work that move people to action. You adapt your approach for different audiences and know how to frame choices so people understand what matters.

Ownership
You operate autonomously and own outcomes. You anticipate risks, structure teams and timelines for success, and deliver at scale.

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 and real collaboration across borders.

We don’t do ordinary. And we don’t expect you to either.

NOTE: This is a hybrid role and requires you to be in our NYC office 3 days per week

Compensation

• Salary range of $120K to $150K
• This range represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of Interbrand in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience; training; associated responsibilities; other business and organizational needs; and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.
• Benefits for this role include: Health/Vision/Dental Insurance; Family Forming Benefits; 401(k); Employee Stock Purchase Program; Annual Education Assistance; Health and Wellness Discounts; Spending and Saving Accounts; Vacation, Sick, and Personal Days; Paid Parental and Medical Leave; Life, AD&D and Disability Insurance; EAP

The opportunity
You're a strategic leader who shapes how we solve problems, build relationships, and grow our business. You see opportunity where others see complexity, and you have the commercial confidence and creative judgment to turn ambitious visions into reality.

At Interbrand, you'll lead our most significant strategy engagements, build deep relationships with C-suite clients, and guide multidisciplinary teams to create work that defines the future of iconic brands. You'll also play a key role in shaping our office, developing our talent, winning new business, and building Interbrand's reputation in the market.

This is a role where your strategic thinking, client relationships, and leadership directly impact our growth and success.

What you'll be doing

• Lead complex, high-stakes strategy engagements for global and regional clients across brand, business, and experience challenges
• Build and maintain deep relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor who understands their business, anticipates their needs, and helps them navigate critical decisions
• Use our Thinking & Making approach and Three Lenses (Human Truth, Brand Economics, Experience) to diagnose what matters, shape bold strategic direction, and ensure ideas are viable, desirable, and ready for the real world
• Present and sell strategic thinking to C-suite audiences with authority, confidence, and conviction
• Lead and develop strategy teams, providing direction, coaching, feedback, and creating an environment where people do their best work
• Identify and pursue commercial opportunities for Interbrand and our clients, thinking like a business partner to maximize mutual value and extend relationships
• Collaborate with designers, writers, client partners, brand economists, principals, and other disciplines globally to deliver integrated solutions
• Collaborate with the Growth team by driving pitches, shaping proposals, building relationships, and helping define our competitive positioning
• Build Interbrand's external profile through thought leadership, speaking, writing, and representing our point of view in the market
• Play an active role in growth strategy, contributing to how we grow, what we prioritize, and how we operate
• Champion Interbrand's culture and values, helping create an environment where people feel supported, challenged, and inspired to do their best work
• Stay ahead of branding, business, and cultural shifts, bringing provocative points of view and helping shape where our craft is going next

What we're looking for

Experience
Proven reputation within brand strategy, business strategy, or management consulting. You've led significant engagements, built lasting client relationships, developed teams, and delivered work that created measurable business impact.

Strategic thinking
You diagnose complex challenges, reframe business problems, and build strategies that combine Human Truth, Brand Economics, and Experience. You know how to balance creativity with commercial reality, and you champion ideas from concept through to implementation. You bring robust points of view on categories, markets, and where brands need to go next.

Communication
You're an exceptional communicator who writes with clarity and conviction, presents with authority, and facilitates sessions that unlock breakthrough thinking. You adapt your approach for different audiences and know how to build buy-in at every level, from working teams to boardrooms.

Collaboration
You build trust across teams, disciplines, geographies, and cultures. You bring people together around a shared vision, invite diverse perspectives, and elevate the thinking and quality of everyone around you.

Independence and ownership
You take full accountability for your projects, your relationships, your team, and your contributions to the business. You manage complexity with commercial intelligence, balancing client satisfaction, team wellbeing, and profitability. You do what you say you'll do and inspire confidence in others.

Curiosity
You have a genuine passion for brands, culture, business, and what's next. You stay ahead of shifts in our industry and adjacent fields, and you bring that thinking into your work and share it generously with others.

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.

Salary: $160k-$210k

This role requires 3 days in office per week 

We want to inspire you, and for you to inspire us as part of your journey at Interbrand. 

Your passion for branding and curiosity has led you to Interbrand. You have strong strategic abilities that you can pair with creativity to solve big challenges and help grow the largest brands and businesses in the world. At Interbrand, you will create iconic work that defines customer expectations across the globe and creates growth for all. 

Are you our next Verbal Identity Fellow? 
We are looking for future industry superstars to join our growing studio. The Verbal Identity Fellow will think like a “verbal sponge.” A positive, vocal, hard-working recent graduate to join our studio, with energy to bounce from project to project as you support verbalists and are exposed to all aspects of the design process. 

Our Fellow roles are full-time, fully integrated positions. They are onboarded and assigned a manager, and are resourced to client work. It is set up as a 3 month contract to start, paid hourly, with the possibility of extending and/or converting to a salaried employee position. 

The role 

We're looking for a creative & and strategic individual who has the versatility to connect the dots between details and big-picture thinking.  

Ideally, you’re someone who can quickly make sense of complex information, distilling it down to the essential components that are needed to develop ownable names, create naming strategies, and turn strategy into storytelling.  

We’d love someone who is excited about everything to do with words. Someone who knows how to write well, and how to think and talk about how their writing fits into the broader world of strategy and design. Someone who loves to conduct research & analyze word choices and who wants to work on brands from any and every industry, from telecommunications to eyewear. 

Your Day To Day 

The Role 

• Understand clients’ businesses and use that understanding to create effective work 
• Support project leads in performing research, generating creative content (names, taglines, etc.), and building presentations 
• Contribute to projects in all verbal practices: naming, voice, messaging, and content strategy, and content creation 
• Work with strategists, designers, client managers, and more to prepare client presentations  

What We're Looking For 

• 0 -1 year of professional experience; branding or marketing agency experience is a plus (Internships count!) 
• Study/experience/degree in a related field; we have a broad definition of "related," including any verbal-focused or writing-intensive field like linguistics, creative writing, advertising, English literature, philosophy etc. 
• Strong verbal, organizational, and time management skills 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; PowerPoint is a plus
• Knowledge of foreign languages a plus
• Ability to work collaboratively to find insights and develop new ideas
• Ability to consistently deliver quality creative
• Critical thinking, especially the ability to critique and discuss your own work and the work of others
• Enthusiastic and eager to learn
• Strong work ethic  

 NOTE: This is a hybrid role and requires you to be in our NYC office 3 days per week 

Compensation 

• Hourly rate of $30/hour 
• This range represents the low and high end of the hourly salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of Interbrand in the United States. Rates will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience; training; associated responsibilities; other business and organizational needs. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire. 

NOTE: We may not have an active need at this time but would like to hear from you for possible future opportunities. We will reach out if and when there is an appropriate project.

We are always looking for smart, creative brand Designers and Creatives across all levels to help generate, execute and produce great ideas and design executions. Candidates must be capable of working dynamically within multidisciplinary teams, have a strong interest in branding and corporate identity, and be familiar with creating brand identity work. Applicants should have exceptional creative talent, be proactive and dedicated with a great sense of humor.

Compensation

• Hourly rate of $30 to $200/hour
• This range represents the low and high end of the hourly salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of Interbrand in the United States. Rates will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience; training; associated responsibilities; other business and organizational needs. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.