Strategy Director

Adelphi Group•Los Angeles, CA

1d•$190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Strategy Director at dotdotdash, you lead strategy that turns complex challenges into experiences people choose to join. You oversee strategy across client relationships and multidisciplinary engagements, from initial framing through delivery, translating business, brand, and human challenges into clear direction, meaningful choices, and actionable roadmaps. You identify shifts and growth opportunities by decoding signals across culture, technology, and social behavior, and determine the appropriate form for each opportunity, such as a brand platform, campaign, digital product, service, physical experience, or connected ecosystem. The role connects audience value to brand and business outcomes by creating meaningful ways for people to participate. You guide research and synthesis, turn strategic thinking into practical tools and direction for teams, and partner with creative, technology, social, production, and client leaders to carry strategy through execution. You advise senior clients, lead workshops and presentations, manage and develop a small team, and work as a hands-on player-coach. You also support client growth and strengthen the strategy practice through new business contributions, evolving methods and tools, and sharing knowledge across the agency and network. Dotdotdash is a global experience and innovation agency and part of Omnicom Advertising Group. The agency combines boutique service and craft with the reach and resources of a global network. Employees are generally required to work in the office at least three days per week, subject to local law and any additional direction from the agency or manager. The stated salary is $190,000.

Requirements

At least 8 years in strategy roles within an agency, consultancy, design studio, product organization, or similarly multidisciplinary environment.
Deep expertise in at least one of brand, digital, experience innovation, product and service, communications, or social and creator strategy, and proven ability to lead substantive work in at least one additional discipline.
A portfolio or case studies demonstrating strategy carried through into real experiences, campaigns, brand ecosystems, products, or services, with clear outcomes.
Experience leading complex engagements and advising senior client stakeholders from ambiguity through decision and delivery.
Demonstrated people-management experience, including coaching, feedback, workload planning, and career development.
Strong research and synthesis skills, with confidence using qualitative, quantitative, cultural, behavioral, and business evidence.
Exceptional writing, storytelling, facilitation, and presentation skills, including the judgment to be clear, persuasive, and constructive under pressure.
Experience contributing to new business, organic growth, scopes, proposals, or the development of strategic offerings.
Fluency with modern strategy tools, including research, analytics, social listening, collaborative workspaces, presentation software, and responsible AI workflows.
Ability to move between broad business direction and executional detail while managing multiple fast-moving engagements and learning new categories quickly.

Responsibilities

Lead strategy across assigned client relationships and multidisciplinary engagements from initial framing through delivery.
Turn complex business, brand, and human challenges into clear direction, meaningful choices, and actionable roadmaps.
Decode emerging signals across culture, technology, and social behavior to identify strategic shifts and growth opportunities.
Determine the appropriate form for opportunities, including brand platforms, campaigns, digital products, services, physical experiences, or connected ecosystems.
Build strategies that create meaningful participation for people and connect audience value to brand and business outcomes.
Guide qualitative and quantitative research and distinguish evidence, interpretation, and hypothesis to surface insights.
Translate strategic thinking into briefs, propositions, experience principles, journeys, narratives, and measurement frameworks for cross-disciplinary teams.
Partner with creative, technology, social, production, and client leadership to carry strategic intent through execution.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior clients, constructively challenge assumptions, and help teams make consequential decisions.
Lead workshops, working sessions, and presentations that create alignment, inspire action, and make complex ideas easy to understand.
Manage and develop a small team of strategists by setting expectations, distributing ownership, and providing direct, useful feedback.
Operate as a hands-on player-coach, contributing directly where judgment provides leverage without becoming a bottleneck.
Partner with the Group Strategy Director and cross-functional leaders to set the quality bar, staff work thoughtfully, and keep teams aligned.
Grow client relationships by identifying unmet needs, shaping opportunities, and contributing to proposals, scopes, and pitches.
Strengthen the strategy practice by evolving methods, tools, and points of view, including thoughtful use of emerging technology and AI, and sharing knowledge across the agency and network.