Senior Director Strategy Brand & Creative

Monks • Los Angeles, CA

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Strategy Director, you’ll lead our Brand Strategy discipline within this team. We are looking for someone who is passionate about seeking new opportunities to create impactful work. TL;DR - You’ve already done this for global brands on some of the world’s biggest stages. You’ve been in the room when major decisions are made and you know how to earn your seat there. You care more about the work being great than being right. You know the difference between a brand truth and a brand claim, and can teach others. And you want to do breakthrough work on one of the most recognizable brands on earth.

Requirements

• 12+ years in brand planning or creative strategy at a top agency, with at least 3 years in a senior leadership role.
• You've worked on major global brands and campaigns that ran everywhere, on briefs that had real stakes.
• Direct experience on high-profile, high-stakes campaigns: Super Bowl, Olympics, or equivalent moments where the whole world is watching.
• You know how to build a global brand platform — not just a campaign, but the idea underneath it.
• The ability to take complex data and research and turn it into a simple, compelling idea that a creative team is excited to run with.
• A track record of building and leading high-performing strategy teams.
• You're an empathetic leader who knows how to get the best out of people.
• You can command a room, sell a brave idea to a skeptical stakeholder, and always articulate the "why" behind the work.
• Genuine curiosity about AI as a creative and strategic tool, not just a capability to check off.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of foundational brand strategy, architecture, and positioning for this industry-defining tech giant across its full product portfolio. Make sure the brand stays consistent, clear and relevant whether it's showing up in São Paulo, Seoul, or San Francisco.
• Drive the strategic vision for highly-visible campaigns (e.g. Super Bowl spots, Olympics moments, global product launches, major repositionings). You've been in these rooms before and you know how to lead when the stakes are high.
• Be the right hand to our Group Creative Directors. Write briefs that are provocative and inspiring and stay deeply engaged through the creative process to protect and elevate the core idea from brief to final cut.
• Keep a genuine pulse on where culture is moving: what people care about, what's shifting, what's coming. Bring that fluency into the work before clients ask for it.
• Manage and mentor a team of brand strategists — directors, seniors, and beyond. Create an environment where rigorous thinking and creative ambition aren't in tension. They're the same thing.
• Build real, trusted relationships with senior marketing leaders at this multi-platform digital consumer and enterprise empire. Spot new opportunities and help lead pitches when they arise.
• Work closely with media, data, and AI teams to make sure the brand platform doesn't live in a deck — it translates into a full-funnel consumer experience, built with the speed and agility a pioneering, fast-paced Silicon Valley innovator expects.

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed