Saatchi & Saatchi

Senior Lead, Solutions Strategist

Saatchi & Saatchi$128K — $192K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10-12+ years in Solutions Consulting, Pre-Sales, Management Consulting, or Digital Strategy.
  • Proven experience leading complex multi-stakeholder engagements.
  • Demonstrated success in large enterprise sales pursuits.
  • Strong expertise in marketing technology, advertising technology, and data ecosystems.
  • Deep understanding of identity solutions and privacy regulations.
  • Exceptional discovery and executive communication skills.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and influence decisions strategically.

Responsibilities

  • Lead solution strategy for new business and transformation opportunities.
  • Conduct executive-level discovery to identify client business challenges.
  • Translate client needs into actionable solution strategies.
  • Build compelling solution narratives for executive stakeholders.
  • Partner with Sales to shape pursuit strategies.
  • Identify risks and drive cross-functional alignment early in the sales cycle.
  • Facilitate solution reviews to ensure proposal viability.

Benefits

  • Flexible time off (FTO) and 14 paid holidays.
  • Parental leave and childcare assistance.
  • Comprehensive health coverage and 401(k) plans.
  • Tuition assistance and professional development support.
  • Employee recognition programs and charitable donation matching.
Full Job Description
How You'll Make an Impact

As a Senior Lead, Solutions Strategist, you operate as one of Epsilon's most experienced and trusted pre-sales solution experts, partnering with Sales, Growth, Account Management, and executive client stakeholders to shape enterprise opportunities from discovery through contract execution.

You are responsible for leading strategic solution design for Epsilon's most important growth opportunities, helping clients navigate increasingly complex marketing, data, technology, media, identity, and measurement decisions. You possess deep commercial acumen and the ability to translate business challenges into compelling, outcome-driven solutions that differentiate Epsilon in competitive situations.

You understand how enterprise buying decisions are made, how to uncover the true business drivers behind opportunities, and how to orchestrate internal stakeholders to create solutions that are innovative, achievable, and commercially sound.

You bring a sophisticated understanding of Epsilon's capabilities across identity and data assets, customer data platforms and data collaboration, digital media activation, measurement and attribution, retail media and clean room strategies, privacy-first marketing approaches, and AI-driven marketing transformation.

Your ability to simplify complexity and connect solutions directly to client business outcomes makes you a critical contributor to Epsilon's growth strategy.

Responsibilities

What You'll Achieve

Strategic Solution Leadership
  • Lead solution strategy for complex new business, expansion, renewal, and transformation opportunities.
  • Conduct executive-level discovery sessions to identify client objectives, constraints, decision criteria, and business challenges.
  • Translate client needs into differentiated and executable solution strategies aligned to measurable business outcomes.
  • Build and present compelling solution narratives that resonate with executive collaborators and economic buyers.

Opportunity & Pursuit Leadership
  • Partner with Sales and Growth leaders to shape pursuit strategy and competitive positioning.
  • Identify risks, assumptions, dependencies, and implementation considerations early in the sales cycle.
  • Drive alignment across Product, Delivery, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Legal teams.
  • Support high-value RFPs, strategic pitches, workshops, and executive presentations.
  • Facilitate solution reviews and ensure proposals are commercially viable and operationally executable.
  • Position Epsilon against known competitors and flag product gaps with a workaround or clear requirement back to Product.

Cross-Functional Influence
  • Act as the connective tissue between client needs and internal capabilities.
  • Bring together collaborators across multiple product lines to create integrated solutions.
  • Help drive consistency in solution design, discovery methodology, proposal development, and client engagement practices.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and issue point for complex solutioning challenges.

Innovation & Market Leadership
  • Stay current on evolving trends in MarTech, AdTech, identity, media, attribution, AI, privacy regulations, and data collaboration.
  • Bring market insights and competitive intelligence into pursuit strategy.
  • Help define solution frameworks and reusable approaches that improve win rates and scalability.
  • Contribute to thought leadership both internally and externally.

Practice Development
  • Contribute to the evolution of solutioning methodologies, discovery frameworks, and standards.
  • Share lessons learned across pursuits to continuously strengthen the Solutions organization.
  • Help establish standards for solution integrity, documentation, and assumptions governance.

Qualifications

Who You Are

What you'll bring with you:
  • 10-12+ years of experience in Solutions Consulting, Pre-Sales, Management Consulting, Digital Strategy, or a related enterprise-facing rigor.
  • Proven experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder solutioning engagements.
  • Demonstrated success supporting large enterprise sales pursuits and strategic client relationships.
  • Strong expertise across marketing technology, advertising technology, data, media, analytics, and customer engagement ecosystems.
  • Deep understanding of modern identity solutions, first-party data strategies, clean rooms, measurement methodologies, and privacy regulations.
  • Exceptional discovery, facilitation, presentation, storytelling, and executive communication skills.
  • Experience navigating ambiguity and influencing decisions without direct authority.
  • Ability to balance client needs, commercial objectives, and delivery realities.
  • Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving capabilities.
  • Bachelor's degree preferred.

Leadership Characteristics

The ideal candidate:
  • Thinks strategically while remaining execution-focused.
  • Challenges assumptions constructively and professionally.
  • Builds trust quickly with both clients and internal teams.
  • Operates comfortably with executive collaborators.
  • Leads through influence rather than hierarchy.
  • Maintains a relentless focus on outcomes and client value.
  • Demonstrates intellectual curiosity and continuous learning.
  • Balances innovation with operational feasibility.

Why you might stand out from other candidates:
  • You have successfully led enterprise pursuits involving data, media, identity, AI, measurement, and customer engagement transformation.
  • You have experience working across both MarTech and AdTech ecosystems.
  • You are frequently sought out by Sales leaders for guidance on strategic opportunities and competitive positioning.
  • You can connect client business objectives directly to measurable commercial outcomes.
  • You have influenced solutioning standards, methodologies, or pre-sales operating models in previous organizations.
  • You possess the executive presence to engage confidently with CMOs, CROs, CIOs, CFOs, and other senior decision-makers.

SUCCESS METRICS

Success in this role will be measured by:
  • Revenue influenced and supported
  • Strategic pursuit win rate
  • Executive collaborator engagement
  • Solution quality and commercial viability
  • Cross-functional alignment effectiveness
  • Reuse and adoption of solution methodologies
  • Client satisfaction and executive feedback
  • Contribution to overall Solutions practice maturity


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Additional Information

When you join Epsilon, we'll create something EPIC together. We're a global leader in data and identity, with deep expertise in digital media, clean rooms, customer data platforms, loyalty and marketing services. Positioned at the center of Publicis Groupe, Epsilon helps brands deliver personalized experiences at scale and build lasting customer relationships by unlocking the full potential of data and identity. Epsilon operates in 30+ countries across EMEA, the Americas and APAC, with more than 8,000 employees.

Check out a few of these resources to learn more about what makes Epsilon so EPIC:

Our Culture: https://www.epsilon.com/us/about-us/our-culture-epsilon

Life at Epsilon: https://www.epsilon.com/us/about-us/epic-blog

Epsilon has five values that define our culture and guide us as we create value for our clients, our people and consumers. We seek candidates who align with our company values, demonstrate them and make them meaningful in their day-to-day work:
  • Act with integrity. We are transparent and have the courage to do the right thing.
  • Work together to win together. We believe collaboration is the catalyst that unlocks our full potential.
  • Innovate with purpose. We shape the market with big ideas that drive big outcomes.
  • Respect all voices. We embrace differences and foster a culture of connection and belonging.
  • Empower with accountability. We trust each other to own and deliver on common goals.


Because You Matter

As an Epsilon employee, you deserve perks and benefits that put you, your family and your finances first. Our benefits encompass a wide range of offerings, including but not limited to:
  • Time to recharge: Flexible time off (FTO), 14 paid holidays, paid sick time
  • Family well-being: Parental/new child leave, childcare & elder care assistance, adoption assistance
  • Extra perks: Comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), tuition assistance, commuter benefits, professional development, employee recognition, charitable donation matching, health coaching and counseling

Epsilon benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms.

Compensation Range: USD $128,000.00 - USD $192,000.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation. 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. 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 10/9/2026.

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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