WE’RE SEEKING STORYTELLERS, STRATEGISTS & SELLERS
Woden is the first agency of its kind. We believe strategic narrative is the foundation the world’s best companies are built upon. And we’re eager to find curious, deliberate, and insightful Wodenworkers to tell those stories.
Our mission is to “Transform Purposeful Companies Into Essential Brands.” Delivering that impact for clients is what drives me every day.
our core values
Mission Obsessed
Everything we do is to achieve Woden’s mission. Each Wodenworker understands the mission and is accountable for ensuring we accomplish it.
craves SUCCESS
A great team consists of individuals who push each other to be better. Wodenworkers are driven to achieve their goals, celebrate them, and strive for what’s next.
Radically candid
Our team cares personally for one another. Wodenworkers challenge each other directly, are open to feedback, and commit fully to our shared mission.
TEAM FIRST
Transformation is a team sport. We rely on each other to succeed, are transparent about our success and challenges, and are jointly accountable for them.
Creatively curious
Woden is continuously learning and evolving. Wodenworkers constantly seek new ideas, experiences and approaches to grow the company and ourselves.
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO
WORK AT WODEN?
Woden has been crafting brand stories for more than a decade. Our team relies on the defined strategy we’ve created to win new accounts and earn five-star reviews. People who thrive here are strategic thinkers: they’re always looking for how to improve clients’ business and our own.
Why you should join our team:
- Do Work That Matters: Our mission is all about transformation. You’ll make a real impact on growing, innovative companies.
- Collaborative Environment: We’re in-office every day. Woden’s all about working together to reach our collective potential.
- Pay and Benefits: We also offer unlimited PTO, health insurance, 401k (4% match), weekly lunches, and other benefits.
- Personal Growth: Our competitive advantage is onboarding. We’ll develop you into a master storyteller—and provide a path to growth.
- Bailey: She’s the office dog. She’s here every day. And she loves you already.
It’s motivating to come into work everyday alongside a team of people who all believe in the power of storytelling and have an insatiable desire to make an impact.
JOIN OUR TEAM
Want to become a Wodenworker? If you’re a fit for one of the open roles listed here, apply on LinkedIn. Don’t see the right opportunity for you but believe in what we’re building?
Email jobs@storyisthestrategy.com and tell us your story.
Woden is recruiting a leader for our StoryAccelerator product. StoryAccelerator is a monthly program that coaches and supports our clients to achieve the business transformation promised within their strategic narrative.
You’re a great fit for this job if you’re creative—and purposeful. At our core we’re storytellers, and clients ask us to apply story to the strategic challenges they’re facing in their business.
This role’s purpose is to help our clients meet their challenges head-on: You’ll coach them on how to effectively implement their strategic narrative across their entire customer journey and create impactful partnerships to support and accelerate their business objectives.
The person in this emerging role will partner collaboratively with our clients to develop KPIs and consult them on how to apply a story-driven strategy across their brand.
StoryAccelerator is all client-facing; you’ll excel in this role if you have a background account management, community engagement, or customer success management.
What You’ll Do
- Own the relationship with clients in StoryAccelerator
- Run training sessions with clients on Woden’s philosophy and approach to strategic narrative
- Facilitate monthly coaching and support calls with clients to provide solutions to: their go-to-market, strategic, and internal storytelling initiatives
- Plan and deliver remote collaborative work sessions with clients and external stakeholders
- Consult with clients to achieve solutions that connect the impact of their story with their KPIs
- Identify, achieve, and track client goals and wins on monthly basis
- Create lifetime value and new opportunities by growing a partnership community
- Run
There are currently 10 clients in StoryAccelerator. We’re looking for you to come in, lead this product, and then build out a team around you.
About You
- You have 5+ years of experience in B2B account management, community engagement, or customer success management
- You’re a natural storyteller
- You’ve demonstrated success managing multiple client accounts in a fast-paced environment
- You’re excellent at building trust and rapport with clients
- You can engage in value-driven conversations at multiple levels of an organization, including C-suite executives and founders
- You’re attuned to client needs and pay attention to detail
- You have an ability to understand business challenges and develop story-driven solutions
- You’re dynamic and agile—change doesn’t throw you off your game
- You have a builder mentality, and want to put your stamp on creating something huge
- Local to the Philadelphia, PA area and able to work onsite everyday
Compensation
Base salary of $78,000 plus incentive bonuses ($12,000+ annually)
Woden is recruiting a Brand Storyteller to join our Client Success Team.
The Brand Storyteller works alongside a team of Wodenworkers to deliver the first three phases of our engagement. You’ll complete research on our client’s business, their market, and their competitors, as well as conduct interviews, help develop the client’s StoryKernel (strategic narrative), craft their brand pillars, and create the strategy and copy they need to put it into practice.
You’ll work on a team of three under the direction of an Engagement Team Lead, supported by a Senior Brand Storyteller, and report directly to the Director of Storytelling.
We’re a small and growing team, and yours will be an impactful voice that drives change, growth, and new ideas at Woden.
What You’ll Do
- Conduct market, industry, and competitive research with ability to form critical analysis of key takeaways on trends, messaging, and differentiation
- Schedule and conduct interviews with clients, from CEOs to our client’s customers and strategic partners
- Write story-driven sales pitches, product messaging, and business content that aligns with client’s story and style
- Peer-edit copy and design
- Attend client calls and virtual deliveries, contributing to client-facing presentations and discussions
- Participate and contribute in brainstorms and project meetings
- Collaborate with senior brand storytellers, team leads, directors, business development, and designers to meet client objectives
- Join and contribute to cross-functional internal teams to drive Woden’s growth, product, or culture initiatives
- Exemplify Woden’s core values on a daily basis
About You
- 1-3 years of professional post-collegiate experience
- You’re a strong writer
- You can work within systems and are organized
- Experience presenting your work and defending your ideas
- You communicate clearly and proactively
- You’re team-driven and thrive off collaboration
- Your self-motivated and want to learn, grow, and succeed in whatever you do
- The idea of having a voice in the room on Day One and your desire to build something motivates the hell out of you
- You like coming into an office every day, collaborating in person, and feeding off the general good vibes of your team
Compensation
$50,400 plus incentive bonuses based on client 5-star reviews on your work. A promotion path is expected in 9-12 months.
Woden is recruiting for an Account Executive. The AE helps lead our business development team to generate new clients for Woden. With the support of a marketing lead and under the leadership of Woden’s managing partner, you’ll engage with prospective clients at the executive or founder-level, learn about business’ pain points, and consult with them on how strategic narrative transform them into an essential brand and help them build an efficient customer journey.
A good AE at Woden has some experience in outbound but is looking to transition into a more full-cycle sales role. Our client development process is highly consultative—we’ll look to you to account plan, develop relationships, and source some pipeline of your own. There’s additional opportunity to help manage existing clients.
We’re a small and growing team, and yours will be an impactful voice that drives change, growth, and new ideas at Woden.
What You’ll Do
- Nurture warm leads with relationship-driven and consultative approach over a six-to-eight week sales cycle
- Prospect outreach, including a mix of cold calling, email, Linkedin, and warm outreach methods
- Build account plans—including identifying and cultivating buyer committees and cost of inaction analyses—and execute them using Hubspot
- Create and send short business analysis videos to warm leads
- Conduct and prepare for introductory/discovery calls and analysis/demo meetings
- Interface with and discuss Woden and the value of strategic narrative with founders and C-level executives
- Collaborate cross-functionally with members of the creative team to generate new opportunities, approaches, and awareness among prospective clients in all stages of sales funnel
About You
- You have 3+ years of B2B sales experience; you’ve been a BDR and AE
- You and experience selling technology, software or complex products/services with C-Suite buyers
- You have experience contributing to a consultative sales process
- You’re a strong writer
- You can work within systems and are organized
- You communicate clearly and proactively
- You’re team-driven and thrive off collaboration
- Your self-motivated and want to learn, grow, and succeed in whatever you do
- The idea of having a voice in the room on Day One and your desire to build something motivates the hell out of you
- You like coming into an office every day, collaborating in person, and feeding off the general good vibes of your team
- You’re pumped there’s an office dog here to cuddle whenever, wherever
Compensation
Base annual salary is $73,200
On-target earnings for this role is $166,800—and we expect you to keep growing from there