Group Strategy Director

The role

The Group Strategy Director sets strategic direction across key client accounts. This person leads brand, cultural, and creative strategy while mentoring junior and mid-level strategists.

What you will do

• Set the strategic direction across key client accounts
• Define the real problem behind complex business and brand challenges
• Lead the development of brand, cultural, and creative strategy
• Lead multiple engagements and workstreams simultaneously
• Shape the strategic approach to major briefs and opportunities
• Partner with Data Strategy, Context, Business, and Creative leadership
• Develop and mentor strategists
• Raise the quality of the Strategy discipline
• Contribute to Translation’s intellectual capital

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in strategy, brand development, communications, cultural strategy, or a related discipline
• Demonstrated experience leading strategy for significant client accounts, campaigns, brand platforms, or integrated engagements
• Proven ability to independently develop and defend strategic recommendations with senior clients and internal leadership
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize research, cultural intelligence, business context, and audience understanding into actionable strategy

Nice to have

• Experience leading strategy across multiple/ complex, multi-workstream accounts
• Strong understanding of the digital, social, media, and creator ecosystems
• Demonstrated ability to turn cultural understanding into distinctive brand, cultural, and creative strategies
• Proven ability to uncover and translate audience-specific insights into impactful brand, cultural, and creative strategies

Benefits

• bonus
• stock options
• 401(k) match

About the company

UnitedMasters, Inc. represents the creative solutions company, Translation, and the leading software and services platform for independent creators, UnitedMasters. It is a marketplace for cultural capital connecting independent artists and brands.