Strategy Director

The role

You will lead a team of strategists, social insights analysts, and community experts. You will guide strategy for Malaysia and collaborate with experts across APAC to deliver work from research to execution.

What you will do

• Lead a team of strategists, social insights analysts, and community experts
• Conduct research
• Write briefs
• Guide work
• Pitch to clients
• Lead collaboration sessions with other teams
• Manage the ongoing performance of different tasks or projects
• Ensure presented ideas are clear and understood
• Highlight new ideas to the team and external stakeholders
• Provide professional, timely and helpful information to the team or external clients

Required qualifications

• Based in Malaysia
• Eight plus years geeking the social media world in the Malaysia digital space
• 7 plus years experience building integrated programs at a top agency working for Fortune 500 clients
• Experience understanding the intersection of business strategy, consumer insights, and digital behavior and developing big, purposeful ideas
• Experience doing traditional, web, social, syndicated and primary research (incl.: NetBase, MRI, Sysomos, Brandwatch, eMarketer, Mintel, Google Analytics, Omniture; conducting IDIs, digital ethnograph
• Dazzling presentation skills and presence in a room
• Ability to express complicated concepts in simple and digestible ways
• Deliver work independently on all tasks and achieve results at pace with energy and drive
• Execute a strong sense of priority level and urgency
• Manage the ongoing performance of different tasks or projects and ownership of internal processes for quality assurance
• Administer agreed goals or projects by dealing to challenges in a responsive and constructive way
• Think logically even under pressure and come up with innovative solutions to problems

Nice to have

• Portfolio

About the company

VaynerMedia is a contemporary global creative and media agency. It is part of the VaynerX family of companies.