Strategy Director

Role Overview

• Shape the strategic vision and craft across multiple client engagements and portfolios.
• Serve as senior strategic lead on select complex or high-impact accounts.
• Ensure strategic rigor, clarity, and coherence across projects, from discovery through delivery.
• Guide teams in navigating ambiguity and complexity with sound judgment.
• Define and evolve the standards for what strong strategy looks like, ensuring consistency and quality across teams and engagements.
• Shape how strategy is practiced across teams by establishing frameworks, approaches, and ways of working that scale impact.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior and executive-level client stakeholders.
• Partner with Client Executive Directors and account leadership to identify and grow new opportunities.
• Present strategic direction and recommendations with confidence, credibility, and influence.
• Balance client advocacy with business objectives and delivery realities.
• Shape long-term client strategy and partnership direction, aligning strategic work to broader business goals and growth opportunities.
• Hire, manage, and develop strategists across levels, building a strong and resilient team.
• Set clear expectations for performance, growth, and accountability, and hold leaders accountable for outcomes.
• Foster a culture of strategic excellence, collaboration, and inclusion.
• Ensure team health, resourcing balance, and sustainable delivery.
• Define, codify, and implement clear, repeatable strategic standards and frameworks that elevate quality, improve efficiency, and create consistency across engagements.
• Develop and pilot new ways of working that strengthen collaboration, rigor, and strategic clarity across teams.
• Contribute to internal learning, workshops, and knowledge sharing that scale best practices across the discipline.
• Support new business efforts, pitches, and strategic framing.
• Continuously evolve the discipline by identifying gaps, raising the bar for quality, and ensuring standards keep pace with the work and market within the assigned Studio.
• Practices Creative Intelligence by staying curious about emerging tools and technologies and applying sound judgment about when and how they should inform the work. Continuously learns and experiments while keeping human needs, craft, and responsibility at the center.
• Shapes how emerging technology is adopted across engagements, connecting innovation to client outcomes and sustainable delivery.
• Advanced fluency in research, synthesis, facilitation, and executive storytelling tools.
• Confident use of planning, resourcing, and collaboration systems to manage complex portfolios.
• Leadership in adopting tools and methods that scale strategic excellence.

Requirements

• 10+ years of strategy experience including projects for large and small brands
• 3+ years of experience leading a small strategy team
• Broad set of strategy skills and experiences across digital, brand, content, UX/UI, marketing and business consulting, with deeper skills in 2 or more of these areas
• Experience leveraging qualitative and quantitative research frameworks and techniques to gain informed insights to drive creative vision and concepts
• Experience designing and leading workshops with senior to C-suite level clients leveraging strategic design-thinking frameworks
• Experience working with and collaborating closely with large multi-disciplinary teams

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Remote work options