Vice President Director, Experience Strategy

Birmingham, MI (On-site)

$129K/yr – $177K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the exploration and articulation of digital experience strategy across web, mobile, and emerging interfaces, turning research and cultural insight into differentiated experiences and business cases.

  • Experience Strategy: synthesize data, personas, and journey maps to shape brand experiences.
  • Collaboration & workshops: facilitate ideation with Experience Design and client teams to surface unexpected, actionable insights.
  • Strategic partnerships: align with agency disciplines to define strategy needs, growth opportunities, and future experiences.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Analyzing a variety of data-centric resources, hacking data, researching behaviors, looking at what people are doing and hypothesizing why
  • Building consumer personas, identifying pain points and mapping experience journeys to envision brand experiences across web, mobile, AI and other emerging interfaces
  • Assisting or leading experience ideation workshops with Experience Design teams and clients; facilitating conversations and championing powerful, unexpected insights to inspire creative solutions
  • Crafting Experience briefs; with powerful, unexpected insights that inspire
  • Identifying cultural trends and keeping a pulse on internet and start-up culture; providing teams and clients with a point of view on how it affects the way brands connect with people
  • Helping to build digital product and service business cases to validate commercial viability
  • Partnering with key players across the agency (Relationship Leads, Technology, Experience Design and other teams) to determine strategy needs, growth possibilities and opportunities to bring competitively differentiated future experiences to life

Requirements

  • 10-12 years; min 4-year college degree, Masters preferred
  • A digital experience-savvy marketer and passionate problem-solver with an unstoppable drive to inspire teams and bring the best work to life
  • A strong analytical thinker and translator with exceptional data-dexterity, including the ability to conduct validation-usability studies to uncover insights that drive experience strategy, design and implementation
  • A system-thinker with a strong background or practiced expertise in service design and UX methods, supported by knowledge of technology platforms and SEO
  • A strategic partner who illuminates unexpected insights and provides clarity on the role and expectations of a digital experience
  • A collaborator comfortable in agile- or sprint-based approaches, willing to work in real time
  • A team leader and relationship builder who can provide an authoritative point of view with senior clients, while fostering partnership and collaboration with all levels of the agency and its partners
  • An approachable manager with a strong history of team oversight and talent development; known to coach, educate and grow junior talent
  • An all-around seasoned professional with exceptional communication, organizational and time management skills, and the flexibility to adapt quickly to change

Preferred

  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation.

Benefits

  • Our Benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Digitas North America

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Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

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