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Director, Social Intelligence & Cultural Relevance

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Kansas City, MO (Hybrid)Full time$75K/yr – $180K/yr
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Director, Social Intelligence & Cultural Relevance

VML

Kansas City, MO (Hybrid)

$75K/yr - $180K/yrAgencyFull-timeDirector/executive10+ years exp.
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VML

Director, Social Intelligence & Cultural Relevance

Kansas City, MO (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $180K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

This role centers on turning social listening, audience insights, and cultural data into strategic brand guidance. It combines leadership of an insights team with cross-functional collaboration to inform strategy, campaigns, and long-term planning, while developing measurement frameworks and storytelling that drive decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and synthesize data from social listening platforms, audience insight tools, brand trackers, cultural research, and internal business data to uncover consumer insights and human truths
  • Partner closely with strategy, creative, and channel teams to embed insights into brand strategy, campaign development, content ideation, and channel planning
  • Oversee reporting and insights across paid campaigns and organic social channels, translating performance data into actionable learnings and recommendations
  • Monitor and interpret cultural, social, and behavioral trends to understand what is happening in culture and how the brand can strategically engage
  • Identify business and brand opportunities rooted in consumer needs, emerging behaviors, and cultural moments
  • Translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives and strategic recommendations for leadership and cross-functional teams
  • Collaborate with marketing, brand, social, media, and business teams to inform brand strategy, campaigns, innovation, and long-term planning
  • Develop frameworks and methodologies for integrating cultural intelligence with business and performance data
  • Serve as a thought leader on consumer insights, culture, and data-driven decision-making across the organization
  • Lead, mentor, and oversee the work of a team of insights analysts, providing direction, feedback, and development to ensure high-quality and consistent output

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in strategic insights, analytics, marketing intelligence, or consumer insights, with experience working on large, culturally relevant consumer brands
  • Proven ability to translate quantitative and qualitative data into actionable, forward-looking insights that inform brand, creative, and business decisions
  • Expertise in identifying brand, audience, business, and cultural opportunities through data synthesis and trend analysis, moving beyond reporting to predictive and opportunity-driven insight
  • Deep understanding of social platforms and internet culture, including content performance, creator ecosystems, platform trends, and real-time cultural engagement
  • Strong experience applying social listening, cultural intelligence, and audience insights to inform brand strategy, creative ideation, and channel execution
  • Proven leadership experience overseeing and mentoring team members while setting standards, prioritizing insight needs, and ensuring rigor and consistency across outputs
  • Extensive experience overseeing campaign and organic social reporting, developing measurement frameworks across brand health, social, and campaign performance, and applying marketing effectiveness principles
  • Hands-on expertise with social listening, platform analytics, audience insight, and brand tracking tools used to monitor culture, understand audiences, evaluate performance, and track brand impact
  • Strong storytelling, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and partner closely with strategy, creative, media, social, and channel teams
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity, balance speed with analytical depth, and guide teams through complex, fast-moving environments

Benefits

  • We offer a competitive benefits package
  • click WPP Benefits for more details.
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VML

3.5 Glassdoor

VML is a global powerhouse born from the unification of Wunderman Thompson and VMLY&R — two of the world's most powerful and accomplished creative agencies with complementary capabilities and geographic strengths. We have an industry-unique opportunity to provide our client partners with a fully integrated offering across brand experience, customer experience and commerce practices — powered by deep data and technology experience. For more information, visit www.vml.com.

Founded in 2024
New York, New York, US
33K employees (8,368 in marketing)
www.vml.com
67% recommend to a friend
79% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
279.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.8%
Direct
42.1%
Referral
8.4%
Social
5.5%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~34.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4,123 (12% of company)
Median Career Experience
14.5 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
13

People

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Masha Mestanza
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Art Caro
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