Strategy Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $175K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own high level strategy delivery and bridge planning to creative execution across global studios, balancing client C-suite influence with cross-functional delivery and growth initiatives.

  • Strategic Direction & Briefs: Translate business problems into clear briefs and concrete creative opportunities.
  • Resource & Milestone Leadership: Plan resources, map milestones, and ensure agile delivery with design leads.
  • Executive Relationships & New Business: Maintain senior client relationships and drive practice development across markets.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Blueprinting: Lead the strategic development phase of projects, translating complex business problems into clear design briefs and concrete creative opportunities.
  • Strategy-to-Creative Synergy: Bridge the gap between logic and magic. Work alongside creative teams in the studio to ensure that strategic recommendations are beautifully and consistently carried through from concept to final execution.
  • Briefing & Inspiration: Design and deliver inspiring creative briefs that challenge conventional thinking and push design output into distinct, brave, and award-winning spaces.
  • Resource & Delivery Management
  • Resource Optimization: Strategically plan and manage internal and freelance strategy resources for your core client accounts, matching project requirements with the right talent.
  • Milestone Ownership: Collaborate with Creative Directors and Client Leadership to map out project milestones, define strategic outputs, manage timelines, and ensure flawless, agile delivery.
  • Relationship Management & Growth
  • Strategic C-Suite Access: Cultivate strong, trusted relationships with key senior strategy and marketing decision-makers within client organizations.
  • New Business and Practice Development: Proactively present Design Bridge and Partners’ full spectrum of capabilities across markets and practices, spearheading new market initiatives in support of the agency’s long-term growth plan.
  • Leadership & Collaboration
  • Empathy & Guidance: Foster a psychological safe, highly motivated, and inspired team culture. Lead by example with high standards of professionalism and open, constructive communication.
  • Global Alignment: Act as a cohesive link across our studio network, encouraging cross-sharing of insights, skills, and strategic intelligence.
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Design Bridge and Partners

A WPP company, Design Bridge and Partners is a globalbrand design agency. With 850 creative minds across 16studios worldwide, we design brands with the power tomove people, stirring emotion to drive action. Experts in brand strategy, brand identity, brandexperience and brand effectiveness, we work inpartnership with our clients to build and translate emotioninto equity, ultimately designing what brands stand forinto how they stand out.Globally our clients include the BBC, Coca-Cola, Diageo,Heineken, HSBC, Lenovo, Mastercard, Mondelez, NASAArtemis, Tencent, Reckitt and Unilever.

Founded in 1986
London, England, GBR
1.1K employees (605 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
44.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.3%
Direct
48.7%
Referral
8.4%
Social
3.9%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
76 (7% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3