Job Description

Senior Strategist

thinkPARALLAX is a leading full-service sustainability strategy and communications agency. We partner with influential companies across industries to build unique sustainability strategies, programs, and platforms. Combining creativity and deep subject matter expertise, we give companies an advantage to amplify their impact.

In addition to being a certified B-Corp, thinkPARALLAX celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace. It's even one of our values — check it out on our website .

Speaking of values, we’re on a mission to be a different kind of agency - one where people are fulfilled and have a healthy work-life balance. We’re thrilled to have been named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Places to Work in 2025.

The Role:

This is not a marketing or design role. The Senior Strategist is a wizard of orchestrating our core services, establishing client relationships, and offering general guidance to clients around sustainability topics and communication strategies. 

This role sits on our Strategy Team and reports to our Head of Sustainability Strategy .

Your responsibilities will include:

Delivery and project management

• Lead the development of work products and meeting materials.
• Orchestrate internal teams to ensure timely, high quality delivery of work products, including:
  • Build and maintain project schedules in project management software.
  • Oversee project budgets, ensuring the project remains on scope, and preparing monthly budget updates for our internal team.
  • Coordinate resourcing needs with the Operations Team.

• Ensure all parties are progressing toward the same project goals.
• Lead meetings with internal and client teams, setting agendas, determining participants and meeting action items, plus monitoring overall client satisfaction with meeting dynamics.

• Serve as the main point of contact for clients and partners throughout projects.
• Manage multiple types of complex projects simultaneously.
• Identify and act on opportunities for internal process and practice improvement.

Client relationship development

• Nurture long-term relationships with clients by soliciting and applying feedback, seeking out new opportunities for collaboration (organic growth), and ensuring project outcomes drive toward our clients' aspirations.
• Contribute to proposals for new and existing clients.

People development

• Mentor Strategy Team members and support during onboarding periods, as needed.
• Train colleagues on communications and strategy services, trends, and project implementation tools, as needed.

Consulting posture

• Stay abreast of regulatory shifts, corporate sustainability trends, evolving frameworks and standards, current events, and the trends affecting your clients’ industries

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• Strong, applied understanding of sustainability and ESG concepts, and the ability to explain the business value of sustainability to clients at different stages of their journey.
• Experience leading ESG/sustainability reporting, including developing content strategies and aligning disclosures to major frameworks such as GRI and SASB. Ability to guide clients through workshops and key decision points.
• Ability to assess ESG risks and opportunities, and to develop longer-term sustainability goals, strategies, and implementation plans based on client context.
• Strong understanding of how brand, messaging, and audience needs influence sustainability communications, and ability to provide clear guidance on narrative and channel strategy.
• Ability to understand client needs and recommend the right combination of services or approaches to help them advance their sustainability and communications goals.
• Proven experience managing a full reporting process or similar complex deliverables from kickoff through final delivery.
• Familiarity with emerging frameworks (e.g., TNFD), industry-specific ESG issues, or specialized tools used for risk and opportunity assessment.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading sustainability strategy work, including materiality assessments, greenhouse gas assessments, climate risk assessments, or decarbonization planning.
• Experience identifying strategic gaps and opportunities for clients and crafting recommendations that gain stakeholder buy-in.
• Excellent communication skills — able to translate technical ESG topics into clear, compelling narratives for different audiences.
• Strong sustainability/ESG background, with solid knowledge in at least one major topic area (for example: climate, social impact, supply chain, or reporting standards)
• Proven ability to lead complex client projects — planning scopes, managing timelines and budgets, coordinating internal teams, and keeping everyone aligned to goals.
• Sustainability-related credentials, such as ISSP SEA or credentials for ISSB FSA I and II, GRI, SASB, TCFD, TNFD, CSRD, etc.

This is a full-time, exempt remote position, working from one of the following states: CA, CO, IL, NY, NC, OR, TX, VA, WA.

Compensation package:

We encourage our employees to lead a healthy and balanced life, and our benefits are designed to promote this aspiration. Please see our Compensation package below for details.

• Salary range spans $80 - $100K
• Health, dental, and vision insurance. tPX covers 80% of your medical premium and 100% of your dental and vision premiums.
• Nine (9) paid federal holidays.
• Ten (10) paid tPX holidays during our two annual week-long company closures, typically the first week of August and the week between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
• Fifteen (15) days of paid vacation per year, which will start accruing on your first day.
• Nine (9) days of paid sick leave annually, which will start accruing on your first day.
• A professional development benefit to be invested in pursuit of your professional development goals.
• One (1) paid volunteer day.
• A monthly wellness stipend, currently set at $75/month.
• The PARALLAXploration travel program, including 3 days of paid time off and $1,800 to explore a new place.
• A parental leave benefit after one (1) year of employment.
• The tPX 401(k) plan, including ESG funds, a tPX match up to 4% of your salary, and immediate vestment.
• The tPX profit sharing plan, an end-of-year bonus based on a percent of the year's profit in relationship to salary and tenure.

If you think you are the one, we want to hear from you! Studies tell us that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can prevent some of us from applying unless we meet every single qualification. Your experience doesn’t perfectly match the job description? Apply anyway. You just might be a great candidate for this role or others.

We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. 

thinkPARALLAX is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at hr @thinkparallax.com .

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