Strategy Director

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What You’ll Do

• You’ll shape strategic vision and direction across a portfolio of work-ensuring rigor, clarity, and coherence from early discovery through delivery.
• You’ll lead strategy for a complex, high-impact client-holding the thread across multiple workstreams and helping teams navigate ambiguity with strong judgment and clear direction.
• You’ll connect brand, product, marketing, and experience thinking-ensuring that strategy is not fragmented, but integrated and working toward a cohesive whole.
• You’ll act as a senior client partner-building trusted relationships, guiding decisions, and helping shape long term strategy and partnership direction.
• You’ll identify opportunities for growth-contributing to new business efforts, shaping pitches, and expanding the scope and impact of the work.
• You’ll lead and develop strategy teams-mentoring senior strategists, fostering a culture of excellence, and ensuring teams are supported, challenged, and doing their best work.
• You’ll contribute to the evolution of the discipline-defining and scaling strategic frameworks, improving ways of working, and helping raise the bar for quality across the organization.

What You’ll Bring

• You’ve led strategy at a senior level and are comfortable operating across multiple projects, teams, or accounts-balancing depth with breadth.
• You bring a broad set of strategy skills across brand, digital, product, content, and marketing, with deeper expertise in at least a few of these areas.
• You’re skilled at connecting insights to action-using research, synthesis, and storytelling to shape clear, compelling strategic direction.
• You’re an effective facilitator and communicator, able to lead workshops, guide conversations, and influence senior stakeholders with confidence and clarity.
• You have experience building and leading teams-setting expectations, developing talent, and creating a strong, collaborative culture.
• You understand how to balance client needs, business goals, and delivery realities-making decisions that are both ambitious and practical.
• You’re curious about emerging tools and technologies, and you apply sound judgment about how they can meaningfully improve the work.

Pay Range

The expected pay range for this position is $150,000-$210,000 for our base US region 3. We have regional pay ranges adjusted for cost of living: US1 %, US2 +7.5%, US3 base. Learn more about our pay philosophy and cost of living adjustments.