The posting
Agency:
TMA
Job Function:
Strategy and Planning
Job Subfunction:
Strategy
Job Description:
Strategy Director
dotdotdash is a global experience & innovation agency. We decode shifts in culture, technology, and social behaviors to open up space for new ideas, new experiences & new growth. We turn these signals into systems. All to help our clients craft distinctive experiences across the brand ecosystem.
At dotdotdash, we are more than marketers; we are architects, innovators and creators of what’s next. Our name is inspired by Morse code. It’s a nod to our belief in putting people at the center of what we create. And like Morse code in its time, our work reimagines how brands and people communicate.
We’re seeking to grow our team with individuals who share our passion for tangible creativity, our commitment to pushing boundaries, and our belief in the power of participatory experiences. At the heart of everything we do are the principles that guide how we create and collaborate:
- Play. We embrace curiosity, experimentation and fun in our work and our partnerships.
- Take Risks. We challenge the status quo and take informed risks to push boundaries.
- Stay Humble. We lead through example, listening and learning.
- Adapt. We evolve at the pace of culture and technology.
- Be Diligent. We commit to persistence and details through delivery.
As a Strategy Director at dotdotdash, you lead strategy that turns complex challenges into experiences people choose to join.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategic Leadership
- Lead strategy across assigned client relationships and multidisciplinary engagements, from initial framing through delivery.
- Turn complex business, brand and human challenges into a clear direction, meaningful choices and an actionable roadmap.
- Decode emerging signals across culture, technology, and social behavior to identify strategic shifts and new growth opportunities.
- Determine the right form for each opportunity, whether a brand platform, campaign, digital product, service, physical experience or connected ecosystem.
- Build strategies that give people meaningful ways to participate while connecting audience value to brand and business outcomes.
- Guide qualitative and quantitative research, separating evidence, interpretation and hypothesis to surface impactful insights.
- Translate strategic thinking into concise briefs, propositions, experience principles, journeys, narratives and measurement frameworks that teams empower cross-disciplinary teams.
- Partner with creative, technology, social, production and client leadership to carry strategic intent through execution.
Client & Team Leadership
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior clients, constructively challenging assumptions and helping teams make consequential decisions.
- Lead workshops, working sessions and presentations that create alignment, inspire action and make complex ideas easy to understand.
- Manage and develop a small team of strategists, setting clear expectations, distributing ownership and providing direct, useful feedback.
- Operate as a hands-on player-coach, stepping into the work where your judgment creates the most leverage without becoming a bottleneck.
- Partner with the Group Strategy Director and cross-functional leaders to set the quality bar, staff work thoughtfully and keep teams aligned.
Growth & Practice
- Help grow client relationships by identifying unmet needs, shaping opportunities and contributing to proposals, scopes and pitches.
- Strengthen the strategy practice by evolving methods, tools and points of view, including thoughtful use of emerging technology and AI, and sharing knowledge across the agency and network.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 8+ years in strategy roles within an agency, consultancy, design studio, product organization or similarly multidisciplinary environment.
- Deep expertise in at least one of brand, digital, experience innovation, product & service, communications, or social and creator strategy, with proven ability to lead substantive work in at least one additional discipline.
- A portfolio or case studies showing strategy carried through into real experiences, campaigns, brand ecosystems, products, or services, with clear outcomes.
- Experience leading complex engagements and advising senior client stakeholders from ambiguity through decision and delivery.
- Demonstrated people-management experience, including coaching, feedback, workload planning and career development.
- Strong command of research and synthesis, with confidence using qualitative, quantitative, cultural, behavioral and business evidence.
- Exceptional writing, storytelling, facilitation and presentation skills, with the judgment to be clear, persuasive and constructive under pressure.
- Experience contributing to new business, organic growth, scopes, proposals or the development of strategic offerings.
- Fluency with modern strategy tools, including research, analytics, social listening, collaborative workspaces, presentation software and responsible AI workflows.
- Comfort moving between broad business direction and executional detail while managing multiple fast-moving engagements and learning new categories quickly.
ABOUT DOTDOTDASH
As part of Omnicom Advertising Group, we combine boutique service and craft with the reach and resources of a global network.
Our Pulse.
dotdotdash is where creativity meets reality and ideas take tangible form. We are rooted in making and producing, combining emerging media and technology to create industry firsts.
Our People.
dotdotdash is for those who challenge the status quo and collaborate with curiosity and courage. We create work that goes beyond, to shift perspectives and influence the future.
Our Purpose.
dotdotdash is where innovation matters only if it inspires change. It’s not just about what we make; it’s about why it’s made.
$190,000
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