Senior Director, Digital Strategy (Paid Digital x Creative)

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $165K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

Job Summary

Own and guide multi-channel campaigns from strategy through delivery, advising senior clients on reputational risks and policy dynamics while leading cross-functional teams to create and optimize impactful creative work.

  • Define audience, message, channel mix, and success measures for campaigns.
  • Translate research and insights into sharp briefs and persuasive ideas.
  • Lead production, feedback on creative, and ensure strategic integrity across teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set campaign strategy: define the audience, desired change, message, channel mix, success measures, and role of paid media within broader communications efforts.
  • Translate research, policy and reputation issues, stakeholder insights, and message testing into sharp creative briefs and persuasive campaign ideas.
  • Guide creative teams from concept through production. Give decisive feedback on messaging, storytelling, formats, and assets while protecting strategic and factual integrity.
  • Oversee paid media planning and execution across digital channels, working with media and analytics teams to manage budgets, test and optimize creative, and demonstrate impact.
  • Counsel senior corporate clients on campaign decisions, reputational risks, and changing public or policy dynamics; present clear recommendations that build confidence and move work forward.
  • Own account delivery, including scopes, budgets, timelines, reporting, and coordination across creative, media, insights, corporate communications, and public affairs teams.
  • Lead and develop managers and teams across multiple workstreams, raising the quality of strategy, creative work, and client service.

Requirements

  • 12+ years in agency or comparable client-service roles leading integrated paid digital campaigns for major brands, corporations, or complex issue-based clients.
  • A record of managing substantial creative and media budgets, with hands-on ownership of briefs, creative development, campaign delivery, and performance.
  • Strong judgment on corporate reputation, public affairs, and the regulatory or legislative environment, particularly where business and policy intersect.
  • Fluency in audience segmentation, message testing, digital media, measurement, and cross-channel campaign planning.
  • Credibility with C-suite clients and the ability to make complex strategies clear, compelling, and actionable for teams at every level.
  • Experience leading layered teams and multiple fast-moving accounts with disciplined financial and operational management; excellent writing and presentation skills.

Benefits

  • BPI offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) program with employer match up to 4%, generous time off for vacation, $50 monthly phone reimbursement, unlimited sick time, and 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents. BPI’s benefits prioritize employee wellness and progressive support to our diverse workforce.
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Bully Pulpit International

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Bully Pulpit International (BPI) is an outcomes agency at the intersection of business, politics, and policy. Born in politics and founded by leaders of the Obama campaign, we apply our unique expertise from these experiences to create sophisticated and customized strategies for companies, causes and candidates. Our clients include established market leaders, new economy firms, philanthropists, CEOs, and elected officials. What these varied brands share in common is the growing need to establish differentiated and lasting bonds with their consumers in a world of fragmented media, deep skepticism, and rapidly changing culture. Reputation has never been more relevant to business ROI, and in our view requires consumers to believe — not only in what a brand is saying, but also in why. We combine proprietary technology and deeper insights to build believers with the speed and agility that today’s market requires.At Bully Pulpit International, we make change possible. To us, this is more than a commitment—it's a passion. Because we truly believe in the work we do.

Founded in 2009
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
270 employees (95 in marketing)
63% recommend to a friend
74% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$150K/yr – $165K/yr

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Funding

Last Raise
Series Unknown, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2023
    Series Unknown
  • Sep 2016
    Series Unknown

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
15.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.6%
Direct
46%
Referral
5.7%
Social
15%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~270
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Senior Director, Digital Strategy (Paid Digital x Creative)

Bully Pulpit International · New York City, NY · Hybrid