Strategy Director, Connections

Responsibilities

• Oversee all connections and comms integration efforts with client teams and media partners
• Support creative teams with insights, best practices, and innovative new thinking for 360 touch points
• Take ownership of tactical briefs and campaign extensions to guide creative teams on developing concepts that are bespoke to the placement and context
• Create a holistic view of messaging to identify when, where, and how to authentically connect with consumers across paid, owned, and earned placements.
• Create creative, tactical, and “mini” briefs for specific campaigns and content objectives.
• Infuse cultural and audience insights into content strategies as well as partnerships, collaborations, and influencer/celebrity opportunities.
• Maintain continual knowledge of media capabilities, targeting, and creative format needs (digital, social, search, etc).
• Support ongoing reporting and apply learnings to future campaigns in social, digital, partnerships, and more.
• Lead holistic social media strategy and executions
• Develop a holistic social strategy that gives social a clear role across paid, owned, earned

Requirements

• You have at least 6 years of hands-on experience working on full-funnel campaigns
• You have an in-depth understanding of the media landscape and how to strategically use each placement in a unique way
• You have experience working with media teams on comms frameworks & turning tactical media plans into tactical creative briefs
• You enjoy being the “campaign architect,” helping to solve all the pieces needed to bring a campaign to life across all touchpoints
• You have knowledge of the social space and nuances to the different placements (e.g., you know what a TikTok Top Feed vs. TikTok TopView vs. TikTok organic video is, and when to use each)
• You understand creative concepting in context of the media placement (where it will live, how it will be consumed, best practices, etc)
• You enjoy serving as the connection point between media, creative, and technology
• You get as excited about a new use of a media placement as a big creative idea
• You have experience managing and mentoring junior strategists across multiple brands/accounts
• You want to become a partner to our clients and form relationships to help understand their perspective and thoughts