Associate Director

New York City, NY (On-site)

$72K/yr – $155K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

Job Summary

Own and shape strategic direction for integrated campaigns by translating stakeholder input into clear briefs and narratives, while collaborating with creative, research, and account teams across workshops and presentations.

  • Lead development of strategy briefs and narrative decks
  • Collaborate across Creative, Research, Social, and Account teams to turn input into actionable recommendations

Job Description

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of experience working in strategy, account planning, research, account or creative with consumer brands
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred

  • Experience in a PR, creative or integrated agency environment
  • Experience working closely with creative teams to develop creative briefs
  • Proven experience developing integrated campaigns for large, well-known technology or consumer brands
  • Strong presentation-development skills, including the ability to structure an argument, sharpen a headline and build a clear narrative across a deck.
  • Excellent presentation and persuasion skills; ability to argue a point-of-view coherently and concisely; comfortable engaging with senior level clients; quick thinker; able to speak authoritatively, without seeming dogmatic or inflexible
  • Understanding of earned media and ideas that generate headlines; experience working on campaigns that generate headlines
  • Curiosity about what makes people act and think the way they do; able to find meaningful insights about motivation and craft powerful narratives to deliver that story
  • Experience supporting workshops and turning stakeholder conversations into clear strategic outputs, recommendations or briefs.
  • Experience working in a collaborative environment and a track record of building relationships with various types of specialty teams including Creative, Research, Social, Media and Account among others

Benefits

  • DJEH offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance, vision, 401K, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance and wellness programing.
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