Senior Director, Creative Strategy, Global

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the global business development and creative strategy engine, shaping pitches, client relationships, and cross-functional delivery with data grounded in insights and culture.

  • Lead end-to-end pitches and RFP responses that convert opportunities into sustained growth.
  • Build senior-client relationships and turn engagements into long-term partnerships and expanded scope.
  • Drive new business and organic growth across existing accounts through strategic opportunity identification and creative thinking.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the Chief Business Officer and Senior Vice President to lead global pitches, shape responses to RFPs, and drive new business conversion.
  • Build and maintain senior client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor to drive long-term partnerships and repeat business.
  • Drive new business and organic growth across existing clients by identifying strategic and creative opportunities that expand scope and revenue.
  • Demonstrate exceptional ability to articulate strategic and creative concepts across visual, written, and verbal formats.
  • Lead cross-functional teams and partners to ideate, develop, and deliver integrated creative ideas and experiences, ensuring executional excellence, alignment to brand objectives, and delivery against growth and profitability targets.
  • Partner closely with Insights to ensure all strategies and creative outputs are grounded in data, research, and cultural intelligence.
  • Drive innovative thinking in collaboration with Karla Otto’s talent division, developing impactful long-term partnerships and talent strategies for both clients and the agency.
  • Oversee the development of accurate project budgets and ensure financial performance is actively managed against targets.
  • Define and optimise working processes and workflows tailored to client needs, overseeing Project Managers to ensure efficient and effective delivery.
  • Manage the reporting process to demonstrate the value of programs and their effectiveness to maximize results and provide key future learnings to continually optimize EMV, impressions etc.
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The Independents

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The Independents is a global ecosystem of 21 best-in-class partner agencies crafting extraordinary brand experiences that captivate audiences worldwide. In collaboration with its clients across the luxury and lifestyle industries, The Independents creates meaningful connections between people and the brands they love.The Independents’ curation reflects an expansive roster of industry pioneers, including 2 x 4, Atelier Athem, Atelier Lum, Bureau Béatrice, Bureau Betak, Bureau Future, Ctzar, Inca Productions, k2, Karla Otto, Kennedy, Kitten Production, Kitty Events, Lefty, Lucien Pagès Communication, MA+Group, Prodject, Sunshine, Terminal 9 Studios, The Qode and We Are Ona. The group’s capabilities span research, core strategy, communications strategy, design, production and distribution, a scope that adapts to every creative challenge.The group translates strategic insights into creative concepts, which are developed into personally relevant experiences that engage local and global audiences by way of its presence in Milan, Paris, London, Munich, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha and Riyadh.In March 2025, The Independents launched L’Incubateur, a pioneering initiative conceived to identify, support and accelerate the next wave of talent, entrepreneurs and creative agencies on a global scale. Since June 2023, The Independents has been backed by Banijay Group and TowerBrook Capital Partners.

Founded in 2017
Paris, Île-de-France, FRA
78 employees (7 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
7.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.6%
Direct
35.2%
Referral
6.7%
Social
24.2%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~80

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (5% of company)
Median Tenure
1.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Last Raise
Series Unknown, 9 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2017
    Series Unknown