edrickchu
Associate Director Of Strategy & Insights
Edrick Chu (They/Them) is a creative strategist, cultural researcher, and brand marketer based in New York City. Operating across media, agency, and brand environments, they specialize in work at the convergence of emerging technology, youth culture, and new media.
Experience: 10 years
Yearly salary: $180,000
Hourly rate: $200
Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States
Residency: 🇺🇸 United States
Experience
Associate Director of Research & Insights
dotdotdash 2023 - 2024
Facilitated stakeholder workshops to develop agency research and insights capabilities, methodologies, production costs, and services into client-facing presentation material.
Head of Marketing & Brand
Troop 2021 - 2022
Built crossfunctional workflows and reporting lines to nurture a team of 5 full-time operators and part-time contractors that executed MarkOps on a limited budget (<$20K/mo). Served as a key stakeholder in all product development, company strategy, user acquisition, and partnership outreach initiatives to strategically center Troop’s audience.
Marketing Manager
Depop 2019 - 2021
Saw the end-to-end of campaign execution, from brief development to after-action-reports (incl. Miami OOH, ThriftCon Partnership, Cyber Week 2019 & 2020, Election Campaign, Black History Month, Pride Month, Mental Health Awareness Week, and International Women’s Day, Spring Clean Sale). Led briefs & strategy decks for special projects, including Black Lives Matter communications, Spring Clean Sale, La Nueva Link partnerships, US musician partnerships, and Depop Presents YouTube franchise.
Partner
Half Moon Radio 2019 - 2020
Led first-ever implementation of brand insights initiatives at Genius (Gen Z x Multicultural Music IQ, Hall & Partners proprietary audience research report).
Marketing Strategist
Genius 2018 - 2019
Pitched over 70+ RFPs, RFIs, and pro-actives since March 2018, valuing at $40M+, generating $9M+ in booked revenue, and securing first-time partnerships with Beats, Puma, McDonald’s, YouTube, Chase, Acura, HBO, Fresh Empire.
Skills
brand-marketing
content-marketing
digital-marketing
marketing-strategist
seo
social-media
ux-researcher
marketing
english