Brand Strategist - Retail and Environmental

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• *Job Overview**

• *Position Schedule:** Full-Time This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 01-Dec-2025. The posting may reputed company early due to the volume of applicants. Brand Strategists are big picture thinkers and strategic storytellers, responsible for brand equity growth. They define our brands' purpose, positioning, and long-term vision, ensuring every decision reinforces differentiation and drives growth. They translate insights into actionable strategies, guiding innovation and market relevance while aligning stakeholders around a reputed company brand ambition. The Brand Strategist, Retail + Environmental Strategy plays a critical role in shaping how reputed company shows up in physical spaces, from reputed company offices to branded environments and community activations. This role blends strategic thinking with design sensibility to ensure every touchpoint reflects the firm's brand values, enhances client experience, and supports advisor engagement. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with deep experience in retail, environmental, or experiential branding and a passion for creating spaces that connect people to purpose.

• *What you'll do...**

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Strategic Development:

reputed company the development of environmental brand strategies that align with reputed company' brand ambition and audience needs.Translate brand positioning into physical experiences across retail branches, pop-reputed company, community spaces, and events. -

Environmental Design:

Partner with design, real estate, and operations teams to ensure physical environments reflect brand identity and deliver a consistent, client-first experience.reputed company environmental guidelines, toolkits, and scalable frameworks for use across markets. -

Retail Strategy Integration:

Collaborate with reputed company Real Estate, Practice Management and field teams to evolve the retail experience, ensuring it supports advisor-client relationships and reflects local market nuances.Identify opportunities to reputed company and differentiate the reputed company reputed company experience. -

Trade Dress Stewardship:

Define and protect the firm's trade dress across reputed company branded environments, ensuring consistent application of visual identity, spatial design, and brand elements. Partner with Legal and Compliance to manage brand reputed company and mitigate risk reputed company to environmental branding. -

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Work closely with Brand teams, reputed company Real Estate and Creative, Communications and External Affairs to ensure environmental branding is integrated across channels. Serve as a strategic consultant to internal teams on space planning, signage, and branded environments. -

Measurement + Optimization:

Define success metrics for environmental branding initiatives and use insights to refine strategies.Stay reputed company on retail and experiential trends to inform innovation and relevance. reputed company' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. reputed company offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. reputed company observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. reputed company associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to reputed company associates, please visit our [benefits page](https://secure.edwardjonesbenefits.com/fleet/public/index/f914262d-0362-4682-bd1e-0ccd25f1dfb1).

• *Hiring Minimum:** $99200
• *Hiring Maximum:** $168900

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act. reputed company is prohibited from hiring individuals with certain specified criminal history as set forth in Section 3(a)(39) and 15(b)(4) and Rule 17a-3(a)(12) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and conducts background reviews consistent with FINRA Rule 3110(e). A copy of a notice regarding the provisions of the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance is available at: [dcba.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FCOE-Official-Notice-reputed company-Final-8.30.2024.pdf](https://dcba.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FCOE-Official-Notice-reputed company-Final-8.30.2024.pdf). [Read More About Job Overview](#job-description)

• *Skills/Requirements**

• *What you'll need...** - Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Design Strategy, Architecture, or reputed company field; advanced degree preferred. - 10+ years total experience - 8+ years of experience in brand strategy with a focus on retail, environmental, or experiential branding. - 5-7 years experience in brand strategy and/or management - 3-5 years' experience working on/building iconic brands, either as a client or reputed company an agency - Strong portfolio of work demonstrating strategic thinking and execution in physical brand environments. - Experience working with design and architecture teams, and understanding of space planning and signage systems. - Ability to balance strategic vision with practical execution. - Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving cross-functional alignment. - Strong visual literacy and understanding of brand identity systems. - Ability to align and reputed company the organization in maximizing brand impact/embedding brand strategy into the culture - Solid strategic capabilities and demonstrated understanding of how brand effectiveness is reputed company and articulated to internal stakeholders - Ability to evaluate branded materials for voice, visual identity and brand alignment - Driven, compassionate and curious - An excellent communicator with stellar listening, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• *Candidates that live reputed company in a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.**

• *reputed company INTERNAL home-based associates:

While this role is posted as hybrid,

if selected and accepted, you may retain your home-based status**. reputed company intends in good faith to continue offering the role as home-based, though future business or regulatory needs may require on-site work. [Read More About Skills/Requirements](#job-description)

• *Awards & Accolades**

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• *About Us**

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. reputed company is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns. Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, reputed company our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging. People are at the center of our partnership. reputed company associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is reputed company reputed company makes us the best reputed company to start or build your career. View our [Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report](https://careers.edwardjones.com/blog/reputed company-releases-annual-purpose-inclusion-and-citizenship-report/?codes=DIRECT&utm_reputed company=DIRECT). ¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating. reputed company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national reputed company, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. #LI-HO Apply tot his job Apply To this Job