BRAND STRATEGIST - ANSO ATELIER

Anso Atelier exists to make brands cool and relevant.

We're hiring a Brand Strategist to lead the thinking behind every brand we touch. You'll drive our branding projects, work daily with our design team, and make sure everything we ship, from a full rebrand to a single post, is strategic and on-brand.

For that, you need to be OBSESSED with brands and culture. Someone who reads People Brands and Things religiously, is signed up to every newsletter, follows every major brand move, and understands why a launch works. Fashion, beauty, hospitality, tech, AI, design. You're the person who knows about the next Skims launch, understands why a Korean skincare brand is winning in North America, and can break down why one brand becomes culturally relevant while another fades.

You don't just know what's trending, you know why it matters.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

Bring strategy into the design work. You work with the design team to organize their week: priorities, schedules, and clear strategic briefs. Nothing gets designed before it gets thought through. You strategize and collaborate on the post first with the teams, brief the designer, review the work together, and help push it until it's right. Your biggest strength is helping the people around you create better work.

Build brands with strategy at the center. You lead the strategy on our branding projects, from positioning and research to strategy decks, creative direction, and final delivery, working hand in hand with our designers to bring each brand to life. Beyond branding, you're part of the strategy behind every new client: whether the mandate is social, email, or content, you contribute research, positioning, and ideas alongside our Head of Social and Art Director, then make sure month over month that the strategy is actually showing up in the work, keeping every calendar, campaign, and piece of content aligned. The work has to do both: look the part and convert.

Be a partner clients trust. You're in client meetings and strategic conversations, presenting your own work, including in pitches for new business. You become deeply immersed in each client's world, their audience, their industry, their goals, and you spot opportunities beyond the initial mandate. You're not just presenting ideas, you're helping clients see what their brand could become.

Keep every brand sharp. This is a hands-on role. You collaborate on feeds, strategize posts with the design and social teams, write copy when a post needs it, work on shoot decks and sweat the details that make a brand look its best, down to the highlight covers. When something isn't working, you don't wait to be asked. You jump in with ideas, solutions, and initiatives of your own, and you fix it. Nothing is beneath you if it makes the brand better. You care so much it shows, and everything we ship for our clients is always A1 because you made sure of it.

Feed the agency's brain. You're our radar. You bring trends, launches, references, and cultural observations into our weekly rhythm and every brainstorm, always over-prepared. You challenge us when we start feeling predictable.

YOU'LL THRIVE HERE IF

You have exceptional taste and can explain why something works, not just that it works. Strong opinions, low ego, you know the best ideas come from collaboration. You know when to lead, when to support, and when to jump in yourself. You've worked closely with creatives before and you're as comfortable briefing a designer as presenting to a CMO.

REQUIREMENTS

3-5+ years in brand strategy, creative direction, or a similar role. Experience working with creative teams, giving feedback and receiving feedback. Ideally a design background and a strong eye. Bilingual, French and English.

THE DETAILS

Full time, in person at our Montreal office. Final-stage candidates complete a short strategic exercise, because we want to see how you think. To apply, send a message with the brand work you're proudest of and why to careers@ansoatelier.com, along with your portfolio and CV.