{"id":1196375,"url":"https://alion.io/job/stanley-black-decker-associate-creative-strategist","title":"Associate Creative Strategist","company":{"id":9264,"name":"Stanley Black & Decker","domain":"stanleyblackanddecker.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/stanleyblackanddecker","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":82,"open_postings":65,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.738,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":23,"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"}},"role":"Marketing","role_family":"Marketing","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":51700,"max":83300,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":83300},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":1,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T18:47:20Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T18:33:12Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Associate Creative Strategist\nTowson, MD/ Remote USA\nCome build your career.\nIt takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 43,500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.\nThe Job:\nAs an Associate Creative Strategist, you’ll be part of our in-house advertising agency-aka the “SHOP,” helping shape compelling, insight-driven brand and campaign strategies across a portfolio of large-scale brands. This role is ideal for someone who is curious, collaborative, and eager to grow their strategic thinking in a fast-paced creative environment.\nThe Associate Creative Strategist will partner closely with the Director of Creative Strategy as well as Brand, Creative, and Insights teams to develop strong strategic foundations for brand campaigns and new product launches. This person will help translate audience understanding, cultural context, and business objectives into inspiring creative briefs, messaging strategies, and communications plans that drive effective and engaging work across the full marketing funnel. You’ll get to:\nSupport strategy development across large-scale brands, helping create approaches that can scale from the global to regional level.\nWrite creative briefs that inspire both clients and creative teams, resulting in work that is insightful, strategically sound, thoughtfully designed, and sparks action.\nBuild and maintain a strong understanding of the target audiences across our brands, working closely with the research team to stay connected to key learnings from both audience research and creative testing and communicate the most actionable insights to creative partners.\nConduct independent research across competitive landscapes, category trends, culture, and consumer behavior to add depth, relevance, and supporting evidence to creative briefs and strategic recommendations.\nReview creative concepts and provide a clear point of view on how effectively they deliver against the creative strategy, including identifying opportunities for refinement or improvement.\nContribute to 360° messaging strategies and communications plans, with an understanding of the full marketing funnel and how audiences engage across channels and touchpoints.\nPresent strategic thinking in a way that is clear, disarming, convincing, and inspiring to cross-functional teams and stakeholders.\nManage multiple projects and brands simultaneously, with guidance and support from the Director of Creative Strategy.\nThe Person:\nYou love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience required\nMaster's degree in Advertising, Marketing, Communications, or a related field; or 1-2 years of experience working as a Creative Strategist or in a similar strategic role within an advertising agency or in-house marketing team.\nAbility to synthesize research and insights into clear strategic direction and compelling briefs.\nStrong storytelling, writing, and presentation skills.\nRelevant work samples preferred, ideally in the form of a portfolio or personal website that clearly demonstrates strategic thinking through the core framework of challenge opportunity.\nPassion for branding, creativity, culture, and consumer behavior.\nConfidence working cross-functionally with Brand, Creative, and Insights teams.\nStrong research instincts and curiosity about trends, competition, and emerging cultural signals.\nA strategic mindset paired with a creative sensibility.\nComfort presenting ideas and defending strategic recommendations with clarity and confidence. \nThis role is not eligible for visa sponsorship (H1B, OPT/CPT, TN etc)\nThe Details:\nYou’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan, including:\nMedical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.\nDiscounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.\nAnd More:\nWe want our company to be a place you’ll want to be - and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:\nGrow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.\nLearn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.\nBelong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.\nGive Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.\nWhat’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!\n\nThe Salary range for this position is $51,700.00 - $83,300.00\nThis is the lowest to highest annual full-time salary range we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. The salary offered within the range may vary depending on multiple factors including job level, geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience and in compliance with local wage requirements. Please note that salary is only one component of total rewards at Stanley Black & Decker.\n\nThe salary range listed in this job posting reflects the range for the primary location specified. The salary range may vary for other locations.\n\nThe successful candidate may be eligible for annual merit increases.\n\nMedical, dental, life, vision, disability,401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.\n\nDiscounts on Stanley Black & Decker tool sand other partner programs.\n\nWe Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.\nJoining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 43,500 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.\nWho We Are\nWe’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.\nWhat You’ll Also Get\nCareer Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.\nBenefits & Perks\nYou’ll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, retirement benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement. And, of course, discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.\nLearning & Development:\nOur lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).\nDiverse & Inclusive Culture:\nWe pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.\nPurpose-Driven Company:\nYou’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.\nEEO Statement:\nAll qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran’s status or any other protected characteristic.\nIf you require reasonable accommodation to complete an application or access our website, please contact us at (860) 827-3923 or at . Due to volume, we cannot respond to unrelated inquiries about the status of a completed application or resetting an account password.\nKnow Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal (eeoc.gov)\nThis employer participates in the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) program. Applicants may be asked to voluntarily provide information to determine eligibility. 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