SHADOW is seeking a Strategy Director to drive the strategic vision and development of integrated marketing campaigns across our client portfolio. This role is a senior position reporting into a Creative Director and is responsible for guiding a growing strategy team of strategists. The ideal candidate brings at least 7 years experience in integrated marketing strategy is fluent in todays media landscape curiosity about culture and people and a portfolio that showcases transformative insightdriven work.
This position requires the submission of a portfolio.
What You Bring:
- Strategic Leadership: You bring 10 years of experience in strategic brand building across creative PR social influencer content and experiential. You know how to provide briefs and insights to help campaigns move culture.
- Vision: Youre a natural storyteller who can unearth compelling insights from troves of information inputs.
- Creative Intelligence: You think like a creative but with a strategists rigor. You understand the power of big ideas and how to connect them to culture data and business objectives.
- Operational Agility: Youve led strategy across multiple clients and timelines managing priorities with precision while mentoring and guiding junior team members.
- Cultural Fluency: You are a constant observer of culture and consumer behavior with a pulse on macro and micro trends that can be leveraged for creative storytelling.
- Executive Presence: Youre a trusted partner to senior clients and internal leadership confident in highstakes presentations and comfortable offering strategic counsel to Csuite decisionmakers.
- Resourceful & ResearchFluent: Youve got a deep bench of goto tools and platforms for research insights and cultural monitoring. You know where to look how to dig and what matters.
What You Do:
- Lead Strategic Development: Own and drive the strategy process from brief to executioninterpreting client needs identifying key insights and developing platform ideas and campaign narratives across creative PR influencer social content and experiential.
- Guide Client Growth: Build strong relationships with client leadership acting as a strategic advisor who brings clarity to ambiguity and drives longterm brand evolution.
- Inspire and Elevate: Manage a growing team of strategists fostering a culture of curiosity creativity and excellence. Provide feedback and structure to help grow strategic thinking agencywide.
- Business Development: Spearhead strategic thinking for new business opportunitiesleading pitch strategy development insight generation and creative collaboration to support our business development team.
- Trendspotting & Insight Mining: Oversee cultural competitive and category research to identify whitespace and fuel breakthrough ideas. Translate trends into actionable insights that differentiate our clients in market.
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Work handinhand with SHADOWs various teams to ensure ideas are both strategically sound and creatively brave.
Annual Compensation
$110K $155K commensurate with experience
What We Provide:
- Medical dental vision insurance
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Dedicated mental health days
- Unlimited sick time
- Give Back. We want SHADOWs to extend their hearts and give back to their various communities and interests on the clock! We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually (voluntary time off)
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching
- Pretax commuter and healthcare benefits
- 12 weeks paid leave for new parents
- Individualized career mapping
- Summer Fridays (early close Fridays Memorial Day Labor Day)
- Hybrid work schedule 13 days in office per week depending on role)
While SHADOW intends to maintain these employee benefits the Company reserves the right to modify amend or terminate these benefits at any time and for any reason.
Additional Information
SHADOW promotes a diverse and high performing company culture. SHADOW is dedicated to providing equal opportunities to all qualified persons and to recruit hire train promote and compensate persons in all jobs without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability or sexual orientation.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Required Experience:
Director