Strategy Director

Instrument

10d•$150,000 - $210,000

About The Position

We are looking for a Strategy Director who leads across strategy types, goes deep with a client, and builds teams that people want to be on. This is a dedicated account role with real range. You will embed deeply with one major client and lead strategy across the full breadth of their business, spanning product, web, marketing, brand, and content. That means holding the thread across a high volume of simultaneous workstreams and consistently keeping quality high. You will be the connective tissue that makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts, a trusted strategic voice with the client and a genuine creative and account partner internally. This role is, importantly, also a growth role. You will help shape the account relationship, spot and develop new opportunities, and bring a business development instinct that contributes to pitches and proactively expands the work we do within this account. Youâll be expected to invest in the business and in the people around you, building a team culture where strategists are challenged, supported, and doing their best work. If you love going wide and deep with one client, move fluidly between visionary thinking and high-craft execution, and get genuinely energized by building things, whether that is a pitch, a team, or a lasting client relationship, we want to hear from you.

Requirements

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.
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

Responsibilities

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 (including AI) 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.