Saatchi & Saatchi

Director, Content

Saatchi & Saatchi$129K — $186K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree preferred in Marketing, Communications, or Advertising
  • 7+ years of media experience
  • Previous team management experience with leadership responsibilities
  • Ability to strategically plan campaigns aligned with client goals and KPIs
  • Strong understanding of analytics to inform planning and strategy
  • History of identifying media opportunities and executing them
  • Excellent communication and relationship building skills.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain knowledge of current media industry news and brand business
  • Elevate strategic thinking across the portfolio and set learning agenda
  • Partner with creatives to generate relevant content ideas
  • Collaborate with Experience Planners to enrich creative ideas
  • Establish content best practices to improve advertising effectiveness
  • Identify the role of content in Experience Plans
  • Ensure effective execution of content based on consumer behavior
  • Recommend content scope and sourcing in partnership with Production
  • Work with Influencers or Media Publishers for branded content
  • Drive content insights and changes from priority brand meetings
  • Facilitate team building through collaboration and project management
  • Provide vision and direction to the team for goal alignment.

Benefits

  • Paid Family Care for 12 weeks or more
  • Monetary assistance for Adoption, Surrogacy, and Fertility
  • Support for pet adoption
  • Employee Assistance Programs and wellness reimbursements
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Flexible Paid Time Off including vacation and holidays
  • Matching Gifts programs
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • 'Work Your World' Program allowing remote work for up to 6 weeks
  • Business Resource Groups for diverse affinities and alliances.
Full Job Description
Overview

The Director of Content creates synergy amongst internal teams, external partners, and client stakeholders to carryout best-in-class content programs. Furthermore, the Director will utilize their knowledge of content, content strategy, and the advertisement/vendor landscape to build and strengthen top tier content partnerships and leverage the best investment options possible.

Must haves include at least 7 years of relevant experience and a proven track record of building and maintaining strong relationships amongst internal and external partners. The ideal candidate will have in-depth experience within digital media and will be able to bring a strong, creative point-of-view to the table as it relates to creating campaigns that resonate with target audience.

This role is part of a creative, collaborative team that encourages out-of-the-box thinking, innovation and excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain an in-depth knowledge of current media industry news and brand business (current and historical perspectives) with a focus on upstream initiatives


  • Apply your experience to elevate strategic thinking across the portfolio and set appropriate learning agenda elements


  • Partner with creatives during idea generation to identify potential for content in today's landscape through the lens of our consumer


  • Work with Experience Planners to extend creative ideas through additional content


  • Establish content best practice in service of increasing advertising effectiveness


  • Work with Experience Planner and Brand Strategist, identify the role of content at a platform, target or partner level within the Experience Plan


  • Work directly with the lead creatives, ensuring the execution will drive effectiveness based on consumer behavior and best practice within the channel


  • In partnership with Investment team, recommend how much content an experience plan can support given budget and reach sufficiency goals


  • In partnership with Production, recommend what needs to be captured on the shoot, where to source it from, and ensure each execution is fit for purpose


  • Work with Influencers or Media Publishers to produce branded content


  • Actively participate in priority brand meetings, action the learnings and insight by working directly with the creative teams to implement content changes


  • Facilitate team building through collaboration, open communication, and focused project management to assure that assignments are executed in a timely manner


  • Provide vision, direction, management and support to individuals within the team to ensure their work aligns with our mission and goals


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree preferred, ideally in Marketing, Communications, Advertising or a related field


  • 7+ years of media experience


  • Previous team management experience with progressing leadership responsibilities


  • Ability to strategically plan campaigns from audience determination, through how to best flight and execute campaigns to align with clients strategic goals and KPIs


  • Strong understanding of analytics to inform and validate planning and strategy


  • History of identifying media opportunities, presenting them to clients, and executing


  • Experience monitoring and recommending improvements to the entire media planning process


  • Ensuring people are adopting the best in class tools, techniques, systems to deliver effective media processes


  • Excellent communication (written and verbal along with visual storytelling), diplomacy, and relationship building and decision making skills with the ability to think creatively.


Additional information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:

  • Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
  • Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
  • Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
  • Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
  • Matching Gifts programs
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • 'Work Your World' Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
  • Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to U.S. based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

Compensation Range: $129,485.00 - $186,060.00 Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 6/29/2026.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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