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About the role
The Strategy Manager is the senior operational layer of Foundation's strategy practice. This role owns client relationships at the oversight level, develops strategists, and frees VP-level leadership to focus on business growth, team architecture, and company direction.
The Strategy Manager is accountable for strategic quality across a $2M+ book of business, acts as the primary escalation point for assigned accounts, and owns people leadership between individual strategists and VP-level oversight.
What you'll do
- Serve as the senior point of contact for each account, building relationships with budget decision-makers and senior client stakeholders.
- Own escalations when strategic direction is challenged, client expectations are at risk, or a situation requires a more senior voice.
- Host strategy presentations, sell the direction, and defend recommendations under pushback.
- Maintain a current view of account health, surfacing risks to the VP of Strategy before they become problems.
- Oversee GEO and content strategy execution across accounts, ensuring alignment with strategic direction and client-specific KPIs.
- Review content plans, QBRs, and monthly reporting, identifying drift, outdated assumptions, and missed opportunities.
- Bring a GEO-first lens to every account and elevate work through generative and answer engine optimization.
- Partner with Account Management on contracts, upselling, and cross-team coordination.
- Manage 3–5 strategists, build meaningful PDPs, run structured 1:1s, and move people along the specialist-to-strategist path.
- Coach strategists on call confidence, client communication, and defending strategic positions.
- Score and review strategist client calls using the Foundation performance rubric and deliver specific, actionable feedback.
- Develop team GEO capability and flag performance concerns to the VP of Strategy early, with supporting evidence.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in digital strategy, content strategy, or multi-channel marketing strategy, with at least 2 years in a senior or oversight capacity.
- Demonstrated experience managing or meaningfully developing at least one direct report.
- Proven GEO fluency: built and delivered content strategies designed for AI-driven answer engines and can speak to them with authority.
- Strong B2B or SaaS/tech client portfolio, with experience presenting and defending strategy at the VP or Director level.
- Strong analytical capabilities across digital platforms such as Google Analytics, Search Console, Ahrefs, and HubSpot.
- Exceptional ability to communicate complex strategic direction with precision and confidence, in writing and in real-time client conversation.
- Actively build content and GEO strategies for generative and answer engine visibility as a core discipline.
- Understand B2B and SaaS/tech funnels, stakeholder dynamics, and sales motions.
- Present, defend, and close on strategy recommendations under pressure without defaulting to hedging or deferral.
- Have real examples of growing a direct report's capability and default to ownership, not escalation.
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Foundation Inc benefits
Work from anywhereComprehensive benefitsHealth & wellness stipendPaid learning stipends<20 vacation daysPaid holidays
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