Strategy Director

• NEVER STOP LEARNING: Be intellectually curious. Be looking for your next challenge. The moment you stop learning, you stop growing.
• PULL NO PUNCHES: Be honest, be candid, cut the bullshit. We enthusiastically insist on dissent and diverse perspectives as a positive force in pursuit of the best. So, don’t hedge your point-of-view – say what you mean and mean what you say with clarity, conviction, and kindness.
• BE RESILIENT: Change happens - count on it. Let’s be honest, this is true for more than just your job. But it applies here every day. Whether it’s what we work on, how we work, or who we work with. Part of being happy here is being good with change
• BE A DOER: Be a problem solver. Provide constructive solutions, take an actionable stance, and operationalize it. Trust that you were hired for a reason. Understand what you want to achieve and learn from this experience, and you will ultimately make this place more special.
• DO THE BRAVE THING: We are the disruption agency, after all. Do the thing that disrupts. That defies the status quo. That upends. That changes things. 
• BE MORE HUMAN: Yes, this means you should approach with empathy, compassion, and openness. But it’s more than that. Being part of a human-centric culture means being your most authentic self. CD gives you opportunities to explore what that is. Creativity and humanity are important qualities of our talent. We constantly examine how our actions back up what we have written on the outside. If we want humanity to be our thing, how do we get there?  

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Strategic Steerer: You will lead the Disruption process, taking an existing brand and piloting it through a series of collaborative work sessions to identify new, disruptive growth audience/s (commercial and creative), establish disruptive opportunity/growth space through disruption workshop development and execution, and oversee the authorship of a brand’s strategic charter and/or road map to firmly ground the client and agency teams in the brand’s soul and vision (this will be needed for both existing clients as well as in new business settings.)
• Creative Driver: You will support the development of breakthrough creative work for the brands you lead, ensuring they are brilliant expressions of the strategy, irresistible to our audience, enriched and informed by social and connections thinking, and truly primed to deliver commercial results for our clients.
• Innovation Partner: You will lead and support innovation projects, partnering with an innovation-focused strategist and data director to develop an innovation strategies for several of our clients' key business units.
• Team Champion: You will be a generous and committed team advocate who knows how to get the best work out of our people and can nurture their talent to develop the best strategists in the industry.

WHAT SETS YOU APART:

• Brave Change Agent: You are an enemy of the status quo who wants to reinvent, reimagine, and do work that gets noticed, loved, and envied. You know that a rebellious spirit and a healthy skepticism of the status quo are necessary conditions for innovation and change. Needless veneration and attachment to the past inhibit progress. Shake things up. Ask why. Embrace chaos.
• Vision: You know how to translate your unique professional and lived experience into bold, brave strategic thinking that pushes boundaries and creates positive discomfort. You bring a point of view and the drive and persuasion to welcome others into it.
• Radical Collaborator: You have the skills needed to harness the collective energy of our amazing strategic apparatus (data, connections, social) and develop creative, commercially impactful strategies that grow business, spawn creative excellence and enhance our team’s capability in both existing client and new business settings.
• People Champion: You are an unselfish leader who thinks about the welfare and growth of the team, advocates relentlessly to ensure they have what they need to remain engaged and fulfilled, and understands how to provide our people with the opportunities and stretch moments to expand their strategic horizons and do their best work (a crafter, not a cloner).
• Cultural Provocateur: You are an endlessly curious culture seeker who can bring fresh, unexpected cultural thinking to the work we do. You have a passion for cultures and cultural communities that can bring unexpected connections and creative opportunities to our brands and their audiences.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Exceptional Brand Strategy: You can land unique and provocative brand repositionings that set the stage for disruptive work. Ability to lead and own workshop and pitch content development while acting as the ring leader/moderator for these events. You will be the distiller who can transform the beautiful collaborative mess into an inspiring and brave brand strategy/charter/disruption road map that unlocks creative and commercial growth for brands.
• Strategic Client Partner: You will build trusted relationships with clients to become an indispensable strategic partner and go-to brand visionary. Prior experience working closely with VP/director level clients within brand/marketing, consumer insights, and innovation is valuable, c-suite is a bonus.
• Creative Catalyst: You will use your leadership, influence and vision to uncover truly amazing creative ideas and frame strategic opportunities for creatives to do their best work in the agency. You’ll then harness your influence to sell-in and defend that creative work and push for it to be its very best.
• Innovation: You will bring your experience working in the CPG innovation space - going upstream beyond marketing and helping guide the client’s innovation strategy and new product concept sell-in.
• Research: You will lead research initiatives and partner with clients to ensure research and testing initiatives support the agency’s work. You will interpret reports to make concrete and actionable creative recommendations. You will own research proposals, oversee discussion guide, and stim development, and when needed, moderate in group and interview research settings.
• Social Competency: While you do not have to be a social thought leader or specialist, you will be able to comfortably navigate the social space and oversee a team developing social strategy, primarily serving as the voice of the brand and ensuring connectivity to higher-order brand objectives and imperatives in key social workstreams.