Communications Strategy Director

JOB TITLE

Communications Strategy Director (Virtue)

JOB SUMMARY

The Communications Strategy Director leads a team of comms strategists within our integrated strategy department and helps define our comms offerings within the agency. They have a mix of media knowhow, cultural insight, and experience in working with creative campaigns at creative agencies to help shape how breakthrough work can, well, breakthrough in the world.

ROLES + RESPONSIBILITIES

• Works to define and implement comms offerings within the agency on new business pitches and all accounts.
• Leads team of comms strategists to help ensure each project has a clear framework and plan of how to achieve goals.
• Works closely with brand strategy, intelligence/data strategy to bring integrated strategic thinking to every project.
• Collaborates with creative department to help shape campaigns and idea roll outs.
• Is able to represent comms offerings in new business pitches.
• Works to develop breakthrough ideas for key accounts, along with new business.
• Understands clients’ businesses work across multiple verticals and can create long and short-term strategies that help reach business goals.
• Owns, manages, and runs the strategy on multiple accounts seamlessly --- you are comfortable overseeing a team and have done so before.
• Manages and mentors junior strategists on the team – being the person on the team they strive to be like.
• Always strives to make the work better.
• Constantly looks for ways to bring our briefs and frameworks to the next level, and increase visibility of the team within the agency, and across clients.

EXPERIENCE + SKILLSET

• 10+ years of relevant experience, especial experience leading teams.
• Has experience in working with creative teams, on creative campaigns, in creative agencies beyond just media experience.
• Understands how the comms discipline operates in an integrated agency.
• Is able to work autonomously and entrepreneurially on a variety of assignments.
• Can originate groundbreaking thinking based own data and findings
• Can develop an insight or framework that becomes fundamental to our client’s business and worldview
• Can adapt approach in real-time to ensure a winning outcome, regardless of the situation or dynamic
• Can lead a group and contribute meaningfully to the growth and well-being of every person connected to them, while realizing an ambitious shared goal.
• Works on the most complex, and largest client opportunities.
• Has the respect and ear of SVP+ clients.
• Leads pitches on our largest agency-changing opportunities

YOU

• You are building on all the things you’ve learned and accomplished thus far in your career and helping to grow and shape our business by applying them.
• You aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty and still write briefs/decks/frameworks.
• You work as a unit with your account and creative partners.
• You represent the agency at industry events.
• You are an essential part of the agency’s growth and future.