The Strategy Director leads strategy practices, creating impactful campaigns while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and driving business strategies.
ABOUT THE AGENCY:
David&Goliath is an agency that adheres to one simple philosophy: Brave. To be brave, to inspire people and brands to take on their biggest goliaths. To create lasting impact that the world can feel and truly embrace. This is our purpose and for over two decades, we have never wavered from it. We are not made for everyone. We are made for the few who believe that purpose isn't just a business proposition, but a way of life. And for those who believe we can achieve the unthinkable, together. David&Goliath is a collaborative, empathetic, and team-oriented culture that believes in taking on challenges that others might walk away from. Because, the truth is, nobody ever became great without first being brave.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Strategy Director helps usher in D&G’s next generation strategy function. In equal measures a business strategist and a creative planner, this individual’s portfolio includes successful product-market analyses, go-to-market strategies, creative strategies and business transforming ideas. This person also has a strong point-of-view on brands and the role advertising in the world. In addition to being a day-to-day leader on Kia – deeply engaged with the multidisciplinary team on the account, they will help the Group Strategy Director and CSO elevate, direct and grow our strategy practice, ensuring we have the best-in-class tools, techniques and talent. They will be a vital ally to the GCD in ideating and creating brave, beautiful campaigns, and to the leadership in upleveling the account service department to a consultative business practice. They too will work closely with the analytics team to ensure data underlines every step of the strategic and creative process.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- A self-starter with insatiable curiosity, drive and hunger.
- As passionate about the work, as they are compassionate about the people.
- Highly collaborative, with a successful track record of leading happy, productive teams across disciplines, agencies and personalities.
- A curious individual looking for new and novel ways to solve challenges
- A super-smart, indispensable contributor to the work and our culture, who mentors and empowers others to do the same.
- A persuasive and inspiring communicator, adept at managing up, down and cross-stream stakeholders in real-time and sometimes in politically-charged environments.
- Unflappable and calm demeanor in the midst of change, who can expertly anticipate and mitigate risks.
- A strong storyteller with the ability to bring to ideas to life in presentations and in-person.
- Experience in presenting to senior clients.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of advertising agency, research, client-side and/or consulting experience.
- Demonstrated successes in identifying market-, brand-, media-, and customer-driven data and insights to produce groundbreaking work.
- Fully integrated chops (traditional, digital, media, CRM, social, mobile).
- Expertise in qualitative and quantitative research.
- Not an asshole.
Video Link (1 min. max); show us why you're brave! We're not looking for the highest quality editing, just good content. The role is based in Los Angeles, CA.
The base salary range is $140k - $160k plus benefits.
Top Skills
CRM
Digital Media
Mobile
Qualitative Research
Quantitative Research
Social Media
Traditional Media
David&Goliath El Segundo, California, USA Office
909 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 700, , El Segundo, CA , United States, 90245
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