Agency:BBDO
Job Function:Strategy and Planning
Job Subfunction: Account Planning and Brand Planning
Job Description:Communications Strategy DirectorWe're looking for a Comms Strategy Director. Someone who understands that the way an idea enters culture is just as important as the idea itself. You'll lead communications strategy across major accounts and help shape everything from campaign architecture to tactical brief writing.
Some days you'll be helping define the behavior a brand needs to change. Some days you'll be helping a creative team make an idea bigger. Some days you'll be helping a client find the confidence to buy brave work.
Most days you'll be doing all three.
Here's how we roughly see the role:
Making the work impossible to ignore- You'll lead communications strategy across key accounts.
- You'll help 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.
- You'll partner with creatives from the earliest stages of development. Your fingerprints should be visible in the work.
Growing the discipline- Comms Strategy at BBDO is still being built. Which means every Director has a responsibility to leave the department stronger than they found it.
- You'll mentor junior strategists, develop thought leadership, refine how we work, uncover new opportunities for Comms Strategy across the agency, and shape where the discipline goes next.
Helping us win- You'll play a key role in new business efforts, bringing fresh thinking to pitches, help shape the communications opportunity, and turn complex challenges into clear, inspiring narratives.
THINGS WE'RE LOOKING FORYou think in people, not channels.- You understand what motivates people, what stands in their way, and what will move them to act before thinking about channels, formats, or tactics.
You can zoom in and zoom out.- One moment you're debating a business challenge with a brand strategy lead. The next you're diving into creator selection, earned media extensions, TikTok mechanics, or OOH best practices. You enjoy both.
You care about the work.- A lot. You don't disappear after your section of the deck is finished. You stay involved. You keep pushing. You help make the work better.
You know how to make brave ideas feel safe.- Not by watering them down. By giving them strategic proof. You help clients understand why an idea works, not just why it's exciting.
You make people around you better.- You mentor. You teach. You collaborate. You share credit. You leave rooms smarter than you found them.
$160K-190K
Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
