Agency:TMA
Job Function:Strategy and Planning
Job Subfunction: Strategy
Job Description:Strategy Director
As a Strategy Director at dotdotdash, you lead strategy that turns complex challenges into experiences people choose to join.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Strategic Leadership
- Lead strategy across assigned client relationships and multidisciplinary engagements, from initial framing through delivery.
- Turn complex business, brand and human challenges into a clear direction, meaningful choices and an actionable roadmap.
- Decode emerging signals across culture, technology, and social behavior to identify strategic shifts and new growth opportunities.
- Determine the right form for each opportunity, whether a brand platform, campaign, digital product, service, physical experience or connected ecosystem.
- Build strategies that give people meaningful ways to participate while connecting audience value to brand and business outcomes.
- Guide qualitative and quantitative research, separating evidence, interpretation and hypothesis to surface impactful insights.
- Translate strategic thinking into concise briefs, propositions, experience principles, journeys, narratives and measurement frameworks that teams empower cross-disciplinary teams.
- Partner with creative, technology, social, production and client leadership to carry strategic intent through execution.
Client & Team Leadership
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior clients, constructively challenging assumptions and helping 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, setting clear expectations, distributing ownership and providing direct, useful feedback.
- Operate as a hands-on player-coach, stepping into the work where your judgment creates the most 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.
Growth & Practice
- Help 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.
QUALIFICATIONS: - 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 & service, communications, or social and creator strategy, with proven ability to lead substantive work in at least one additional discipline.
- A portfolio or case studies showing 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 command of research and synthesis, with confidence using qualitative, quantitative, cultural, behavioral and business evidence.
- Exceptional writing, storytelling, facilitation and presentation skills, with 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.
- Comfort moving between broad business direction and executional detail while managing multiple fast-moving engagements and learning new categories quickly.
$190,000
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