Director of Engagement — Marketing & Comms Strategy

District of Columbia, USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead strategic direction for a portfolio of agency clients across marketing and communications to drive integrated campaigns.

  • Own the overall strategic direction for client programs across marketing and communications.
  • Must-have: 7+ years in agency or agency-like client management.
  • Standout: Experience spanning paid media, organic social, email, content/SEO, and influencer partnerships.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary strategic point of contact for a portfolio of clients across marketing and communications disciplines.
  • Develop deep knowledge of each client’s business, audience, and goals, and translate that knowledge into smart, actionable strategies.
  • Lead client meetings, presentations, and reviews with confidence and clarity.
  • Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships that result in high client retention and satisfaction.
  • Anticipate client needs and proactively bring forward ideas, opportunities, and solutions.
  • Direct integrated marketing and communications strategies across paid media, organic social, email, content/SEO, and influencer/partnerships, providing strategic direction while internal specialists execute.
  • Translate client objectives into well-structured campaign frameworks, editorial strategies, and channel plans.
  • Ensure all strategic recommendations are grounded in audience insight, brand positioning, and measurable goals.
  • Review and provide strategic direction on creative and content deliverables across client accounts.
  • Stay current on platform trends, marketing best practices, and the evolving media landscape to bring fresh thinking to every client.
  • Own the overall strategic direction and arc of client programs, ensuring work is scoped, planned, and executed in a way that delivers on defined goals.
  • Partner with project management and internal teams to maintain timelines, quality, and delivery standards across accounts.
  • Step in as a senior contributor on peer accounts when needed, ensuring seamless continuity for clients.
  • Identify and escalate risks early, and solve problems with a solutions-first mindset.

Requirements

  • Agency experience. You’ve worked in a fast-paced communications, digital, or marketing agency environment and know what it takes to manage multiple clients, deadlines, and stakeholders simultaneously. Experience in more traditional or in-house marketing organizations is a plus, you bring the best of both worlds.
  • Strategic range across the marketing mix. You have a strong command of integrated marketing strategy, including paid media, organic social, email, content, SEO, and influencer marketing, and can provide confident strategic direction across all of them.
  • Client relationship instincts. You are a natural relationship builder. Clients trust you, value your counsel, and enjoy working with you. You know how to manage up, manage expectations, and be a true partner to your clients.
  • Communications depth. You have a strong foundation in communications strategy, including messaging, narrative development, and audience segmentation, and can move fluidly between communications-first and marketing-first work.
  • Project architecture skills. You can look at a complex client program and organize it, defining priorities, scoping work, sequencing activities, and keeping a team aligned around a clear plan.
  • Strong communicator. You write well, present confidently, and can adapt your communication style to a range of audiences, from junior team members to C-suite clients.
  • Experience. 7+ years of relevant experience, with at least 4 years in a client-facing role at an agency or agency-like environment.
  • Travel. Occasional, as-needed travel may be required to support key initiatives and client engagements.

Preferred

  • Experience in more traditional or in-house marketing organizations is a plus.

Benefits

  • flexible PTO
  • 401k
  • continuing education
  • phone reimbursement
  • medical dental, and vision
  • short-term/long-term disability
  • a bike-share membership
  • flexible work schedules including “Fast Lane” and “No Meeting Fridays”
  • great colleagues
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Social Driver

Social Driver is a digital agency trusted by the world's leading corporations and nonprofit organizations for strategic solutions for social media, websites, and digital marketing. We have experience working with hundreds of clients, world-class expertise in digital and social media, and a culture of long-term client partnerships. Social Driver is headquartered in Washington, DC with additional teams in Bellingham, WA, Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, and Detroit, MI. Our company mantra captures our mission, culture and values: “We believe the future is bright, all progress is social, and the drivers make history.” We aim to provide our clients with digital services that help them meet their goals and, through that work, make an impact for a brighter future.

Founded in 2011
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
142 employees (21 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.7%
Direct
52.1%
Referral
7.5%
Social
8.1%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~142

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
14 (10% of company)

Funding

Last Raise
Grant, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2023
    Grant