Communications Strategy Director

Adelphi Group•Chicago, IL

5d•$125,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

BBDO is seeking a Communications Strategy Director to lead communications strategy across major accounts. This role sits between brand planning and media planning, focusing on understanding how ideas gain momentum and move through culture, communities, and channels. The Communications Strategy Director will be responsible for shaping campaign architecture, tactical brief writing, and ensuring creative ideas have maximum impact by earning attention and fostering two-way conversations. This is a strategic role focused on making big ideas impossible to ignore and ensuring they become bigger than advertising.

Requirements

Understands what motivates people, what stands in their way, and what will move them to act before thinking about channels, formats, or tactics.
Ability to zoom in and zoom out, debating business challenges with brand strategy leads and diving into specifics like creator selection, earned media extensions, TikTok mechanics, or OOH best practices.
Deep care for the work and a commitment to staying involved to make it better.
Ability to make brave ideas feel safe by providing strategic proof and helping clients understand why an idea works.
Mentors, teaches, collaborates, shares credit, and leaves rooms smarter than they found them.
Experience in communications strategy, brand planning, or a related field.
Proven ability to lead strategy on major accounts.
Experience in developing campaign architecture and tactical briefs.
Familiarity with various channels, formats, and tactics.
Experience in new business pitches and developing strategic narratives.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the advertising or agency industry.
Understanding of how ideas gain momentum and move through culture, communities, and channels.
Ability to create two-way conversations with an audience.
Experience in shaping campaign architecture and tactical brief writing.
Experience in making creative ideas bigger and ensuring they earn attention.

Responsibilities

Lead communications strategy across key accounts.
Define big jobs to be done, identify opportunities, map journeys, build communications frameworks, and create go-to-market programs that maximize the impact of creative ideas.
Partner with creatives from the earliest stages of development to ensure strategic influence on the work.
Mentor junior strategists.
Develop thought leadership for the Comms Strategy discipline.
Refine agency processes for Comms Strategy.
Uncover new opportunities for Comms Strategy across the agency.
Shape the future direction of the Comms Strategy discipline.
Play a key role in new business efforts, bringing fresh thinking to pitches.
Help shape the communications opportunity in pitches.
Turn complex challenges into clear, inspiring narratives for new business.