Senior Director, Influencer Strategy - CREO

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$120K/yr – $230K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own Creo’s high impact strategy work for influencer led campaigns, turning creator insight into brand strategy, content architecture, and measurable ROI.

  • Growth/Strategy Ownership: Lead the strategic direction on new business RFPs and key client initiatives with insight led, differentiated creator content.
  • Alignment and standards: Set strategic standards across high impact client work, ensuring clarity, data driven decisions, and commercial grounding.
  • Team and tooling: Shape the Strategy function, coach juniors, roll out frameworks, and guide complex initiatives.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategic direction on new business RFPs and key client initiatives, defining how brands show up in culture through creators and content with insight-led, differentiated approaches.
  • Set strategic standards and direction across high-impact client initiatives and new business, ensuring work is insight-led, differentiated, and commercially grounded.
  • Interrogate briefs to uncover the core challenge, clarify objectives, and establish the strategic foundation for creative, influencer, and performance-driven work.
  • Apply strong commercial judgment, connecting creator strategy to brand goals, performance metrics, and ROI, translating customer insights into compelling content strategies.
  • Own the development of audience, cultural, creator and communications strategies that inform campaign architecture, content planning, channel roles and measurement approaches.
  • Partner with senior leadership and new business teams to shape proposals and strategic approaches for priority opportunities, ensuring clear vision and alignment.
  • Provide clarity and direction in moments of ambiguity, guiding teams and clients toward confident, aligned decisions grounded in data and strategic insight.
  • Lead the development and oversight of Strategy team members, setting expectations for strategic quality and consistency across all deliverables.
  • Operate as a senior individual contributor on the agency's most complex or high-stakes initiatives, while guiding team members on standard workstreams and strategic craft.
  • Coach junior team members on judgment, leadership presence, and strategic craft, strengthening the overall capability of the Strategy function.

Benefits

  • health insurance
  • vision insurance
  • dental insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
  • vacation days
  • sick days
  • personal days
  • paid parental leave

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