Director, Integrated Strategy - Temporary Worker
About The Position
This is a temporary role for a Director, Integrated Strategy within Dentsu Creative. The agency is a global creative network focused on unlocking exponential growth for clients through Transformative Creativity. Dentsu Creative is integrated with Dentsu's Media and CXM businesses worldwide, offering integrated Growth Solutions. The role involves developing and executing integrated strategy projects for a consumer healthcare enterprise, translating strategic direction into inspirational insights and briefs for creative and media execution. The position requires fluency in both brand strategy and connected strategy, understanding how strategy lives across earned, owned, and paid channels, including social and influencer partnerships. The Director will turn strategic direction into clear big ideas and briefs grounded in audience insight and media possibility, working with creative and media teams to ensure coherence and inspire bigger thinking.
Requirements
- 6-10 years strategy experience with demonstrated fluency in BOTH creative strategy AND media strategy
- Proven ability to develop and communicate breakthrough strategic thinking, not just execute briefs
- Track record working on consumer or B2C brands in complex strategic environments
- Experience working across creative and media functions
- Comfort engaging with senior stakeholders in strategic conversations
- Understanding of how ideas propagate and land in culture—not just single-moment performance
- Ability to hold multiple perspectives, audiences, and signals in mind simultaneously
- Comfort moving between strategic thinking and tactical execution, between 30,000 feet and the work itself
- Understanding of signal stacking—how audience signals cluster to create moments of greatest impact
- Genuine curiosity about how creative and media thinking complement and inform each other
- Evidence that you think about systems, not just campaigns
- Evidence that you learn from people and disciplines different from your own
- Strong communicator who can brief stakeholders with clarity
- Ability to contribute ideas within a broader strategic framework
- Genuine interest in how creative and media thinking complement each other
- Collaborative spirit; you get smarter working with others
- Ability to mentor and develop other strategists
- Must be US Based
Nice To Haves
- Experience with social media platforms and/or influencer partnerships a plus
Responsibilities
- Translate strategic direction into powerful Catalyzing Ideas and briefs grounded in creative insight and contextual possibility
- Build the strategic rationale—not just what we're doing, but why it matters and how it moves the business
- Develop brand worlds that breathe life into ideas—articulating character, conviction, and edges with specificity
- Help creative teams uncover the strategic insight that should drive their work. Help media teams see how that idea scales. Understand how ideas need to live in social and influencer contexts.
- Identify WHERE ideas reach the right audiences and HOW they show up in context—across paid media, owned channels, social platforms, and influencer partnerships
- Research and surface audience signals that inform where and when strategy becomes relevant and urgent
- Understand signal stacking—how multiple signals cluster to create moments of greatest impact
- Help teams understand how their work feeds the whole and why that connection matters
- Work with creative, media, social, and influencer partners to ensure strategy translates consistently across all touchpoints
- Help creative teams understand media strategy and what's possible at scale. Help media teams understand creative strategy and what ideas demand. Bridge social and influencer thinking into the broader strategic conversation.
- Bridge creative and media conversations so both disciplines understand they're working from the same foundation
- Think in both languages simultaneously—you are fluent in creative strategy AND media strategy, weaving them together
- Brief brand partners and internal stakeholders on strategy with clarity and confidence
- Be a reliable strategic voice partners turn to when asking "how should this idea work?" or "how does this fit what we're doing?"
- Engage with senior team to gather input and ensure alignment with enterprise priorities
- Support team leadership by modeling integrated thinking
- Mentor junior strategists, helping them understand systems thinking, not just tactical execution
- Ask good questions that help teams think beyond their discipline
- Contribute to creating psychological safety where people challenge siloed thinking
- Help monitor how strategy translates in market and gather feedback for refinement
- Support measurement that tracks whether the system is working, using data as feedback not just reporting
- Contribute insights on how ideas are propagating and whether signals are clustering as predicted
Benefits
- Paid holidays in accordance with dentsu policy
- Safe and sick time
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
