Strategic Planning Intern (Spring 2026) 

Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning (New York City) 

We are looking for a strategic leader with a passion for consumer brands. 

At Weber Shandwick, you will leverage data, insights, and your extensive experience to craft innovative cultural-driven strategies that engage audiences and elevate our clients’ brands with an earned-first mindset and mandate. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are excited to challenge the status quo, this is the perfect opportunity for you! 

 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Lead Strategic Output: Oversee the quality of strategic deliverables for key client relationships, ensuring every brief, narrative  and point of view resonates with consumer audiences and aligns with our strategic goals. Work on core accounts to drive growth and ensure consistency of strategy across our portfolio of brand accounts. 

Champion Insight Discovery: Innovate and enhance methods for uncovering insights and measuring success, ensuring our strategies are data-driven and culturally savvy while showcasing boundary-pushing ideas. 

Work Through Complex Issues: Manage large clients, programs, and campaigns, fluidly navigating client-side organizational realities and delivering impact against client objectives and business metrics. 

Deliver Outstanding Client Experiences: Immerse yourself in the client’s business and industry dynamics. Build proactive relationships with senior clients as a trusted advisor, bringing impactful and provocative thinking to engagements. 

Inspire and Mentor Diverse Teams: Create space and opportunities for our high-performing team of planners and subject matter experts who share your passion for consumer brands. Proactively pipeline talent and cultivate an inclusive culture that values diverse voices. 

Enhance Agency Reputation: Help build thought leadership and share/track best practices, case studies, and ideas that spark creativity and drive results. 

Drive Business Development: Identify opportunities for growth and evolution, actively participating in new business avenues that align with our strategic vision and client needs. 

 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• 12+ years of experience in strategic planning, with a strong emphasis on consumer brands, preferably within an agency setting. 

• Proven expertise in PR, advertising, and digital channels (social media, content, video, media, influencer marketing) that drive consumer engagement. 

• Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to weave insights into compelling narratives that resonate with diverse audiences. 

• Demonstrated experience in mentoring high-performing teams, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment. 

• Self-motivated and endlessly curious, with an entrepreneurial spirit that embraces challenges and drives innovation…all while ensuring we have a good time doing what we’re doing! 

Join us at Weber Shandwick, where your ideas can flourish, your voice matters, and together, we can create impactful strategies that resonate with consumers and transform brands. If you’re ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you! 

 

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

NYC Salary range: $170,000 – $225,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Title: Manager, AI Strategy
Level: Manager
Group: Weber I/O
Reports to: SVP, I/O

Ignite growth where code meets culture.

Weber I/O is an industry-first unit fusing analytics, data science, performance media, experiential tech and AI advisory to power client advantage, and we need an AI Strategist in Canada to drive transformation for clients and across the agency.

Game to join our crew, to amplify and advance the momentum, and be on the ground floor for this exciting transformation? Keep reading.

What you’ll do

• Chart and evolve Canada’s innovation and training roadmap. Plan and deliver rich, multi-dimensional AI education and inspiration programming for North America staff. Think less traditional L&D/classroom vibe, more engaging/backstage pass feel.
• Design practical curriculum and content. Collaborate with subject-matter experts to co-create program components that help individuals/teams move quickly from curiosity to confidence. Includes producing live training sessions, deconstructing best practice work, instigating Teams discussions, coordinating virtual office hours and beyond. (New form factors welcome!)
• Roll-out sessions and rally engagement. Draft internal comms, liaise with I/O colleagues and communications team to announce programming, drive attendance/participation. Monitor engagement, sentiment and impact so we can scale what sticks, sunset what doesn’t.
• Keep Halo at the core. Ensure our new and improved secure AI workspace, Halo, is known as the safest—and easiest — place for colleagues to employ AI to elevate their work. Curate top use-cases, gather user feedback, share insights to inform fast-moving and longer-term roadmap and employee learning programs
• Flex and pivot at the speed of tech. Monitor new platforms, tools and workflows to contribute to discussions about the applications and implications of AI on our work.
• Support I/O strategic initiatives (≈20%). Jump into other I/O priorities including new service pilots, market visibility programs and innovation sprints when extra lift is needed.

You’ll thrive here if you

• Are immersed in emerging tech—its possibilities and implications—and can explain it in plain English.
• Believe that utilizing secure, responsible AI is a competitive edge—and have ideas for proving it daily.
• Treat change as your natural habitat, pivoting with curiosity and discipline as new platforms, ways of working and priorities emerge

Must-have chops

• Experience in AI-powered innovation —ideally in communications, marketing or a tech-forward environment.
• Hands-on familiarity with Gen AI platforms and a clear POV on responsible use.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills—able to distill complex AI concepts into clear client insights, craft compelling narratives, and produce polished, client-ready deliverables.
• Credibility to partner with senior leaders and entry-level AI natives alike, and excitement to collaborate with and inspire doers at every level.
• Fluency in measurement and storytelling with data, turning insights into action.
• Bonus: experience introducing proprietary tech platforms at scale.

Our team is future-leaning but grounded, legit curious and pragmatic. We celebrate makers and breakers. We ask hard questions, listen to everyone’s POV, make calls and move fast. And we love digging into nascent platforms and figuring out how best to put them to work. If that feels like your energy, let’s talk.

 

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• RRSP (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – $50 monthly cell phone reimbursement
• MyDays – Flexible time off
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave Policy

This is a hybrid role tied to our Toronto office.

 

Salary range: CAD 65,000.00 – CAD 80,000.00

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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