Responsibilities

• Serve as the Strategy Lead on key workstreams (project-based and AORs), owning the strategy playbook, creative platform, big ideas, and activation plans.
• Manage and provide oversight to Strategists on projects, with feedback and direction that helps them build great work and sell their plans through to our clients.
• Build amazing decks. Great copy. Elevated design. Great visual references. Then, present and pitch your work to internal and external leaders, often VPs and CMOs.
• Lead on new RFPs, collaborating closely with Accounts, Creative, and Production to pitch amazing strategic & creative proposals.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to our clients by helping define and shape the brand’s vision/role for their partnership with a roadmap for our team to help them get there.
• Go from brief to execution, being able to take in a client brief, build out a plan, and follow through on the execution of creative and production.
• Develop and implement new processes that help the team work better.
• Assist in the development and growth of the Strategy department through education and hiring.

Requirements

• 8+ years of working in creative/strategy – agency, brand, tech preferred.
• 3-5 years of managing direct reports.
• Strong book (sport, music, entertainment are a plus).
• Great taste in creative work, strong level of polish in your own work.
• Experience building full strategy decks (copy, flow, design)
• Strong leadership skills and experience helping people grow in their roles.
• Proficiency in creating Google Slides decks (design, layout, speed, familiarity).
• Excellent pitching, storytelling, and communication skills.