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.

Requirements

• 8+ years in creative strategy
• Demonstrable experience developing brand narratives, positioning documents, and messaging frameworks
• In-house experience at a large-scale corporate environment is strongly preferred
• Experience working with senior executives or public-facing leaders
• Deep knowledge of the luxury and/or fashion media landscape
• Strong new business instincts - comfortable leading or significantly contributing to pitches and strategic proposals
• A genuine point of view on where media is heading and the ability to articulate it clearly
• Intellectually curious, widely read, and able to bring cultural reference and research into client work
• Restless with convention and excited by formats, platforms, and collaborators that sit outside the traditional PR model
• Exceptional written communication skills - precise, considered, and adapted to audience

Preferred

• 8+ years in creative strategy — with a clear emphasis on strategic and development ideas
• Demonstrable experience developing brand narratives, positioning documents, and messaging frameworks
• In-house experience at a large-scale corporate environment is strongly preferred
• Experience working with senior executives or public-facing leaders
• Deep knowledge of the luxury and/or fashion media landscape
• Strong new business instincts - comfortable leading or significantly contributing to pitches and strategic proposals
• A genuine point of view on where media is heading and the ability to articulate it clearly
• Intellectually curious, widely read, and able to bring cultural reference and research into client work
• Restless with convention and excited by formats, platforms, and collaborators that sit outside the traditional PR model
• Exceptional written communication skills - precise, considered, and adapted to audience

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• 401K Employer Match program
• Commuter Benefits
• Paid Time Off including Vacation Days, Personal Days, Sick Days, and additional Comp Days
• Company-wide closure last week of the year
• 10 Federal Holidays Observed