Director, Strategy

Sullivan; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sullivan is seeking a Director of Strategy in the United States, leading accounts with strategic and creative insight for Fortune 100 clients across financial services, technology, and more. You’ll uncover insights through research, interviews, and market analysis, then guide branding, messaging, and campaigns with a collaborative team.

You will define compelling value propositions, coordinate with creative teams, build client trust, and push high-quality work while growing your responsibilities

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of relevant experience in brand, marketing, or communications strategy with leadership of complex client engagements at an agency or consultancy.
• Track record of strong client relationship building and delivering strategic insights.
• Breadth across strategy disciplines including brand, messaging, communications, and campaign deployment.
• Experience navigating complex client organizations and aligning senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead and develop teams and foster collaboration.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills for messaging and client conversations.
• Passion for creative work and ability to evaluate creative direction.

Responsibilities

• Manage the health of an account from micro to macro level.
• Lead accounts with strategic and creative insight for Fortune 100 clients.
• Build structure around client challenges and marketing agendas to fill gaps.
• Conduct market research and interviews to uncover insights informing strategy.
• Brainstorm and collaborate to create a variety of work that wows clients.
• Define value propositions and messages, partnering with creative to develop identities.
• Run competitive audits and create communication plans with creatives.
• Influence Sullivan’s success and momentum and grow responsibility.

Skills

Client leadership

Brand strategy

Messaging

Campaign development

Stakeholder management

Storytelling

Creative direction

Job description

WHO WE ARE

At Sullivan,we’redriven by fearless curiosity. Around here, asking bold questions, understanding what makes people tick, imagining fresh approaches to solve complex problems, and thinking creatively are all in a day’s work. Together, we help organizations of consequence build and activate brands that move audiences to action.

WHAT YOUR DAY-TO-DAY WILL LOOK LIKE

As a Director of Strategy,you’llbe a champion for clients—leading accounts with strategic and creative insight. Your day-to-day will include:

• Managing the health of an account from the micro to the macro level.

• Working side-by-side with marketing teams and leadership at fortune 100 companies—from financial services to technology and beyond.

• Becoming invaluable to your clients byputting structure around their challenges and building on their marketing agendas to help them fill gaps.

• Diving into market research and conducting interviews to uncover insights to inform strategic and creative solutions.

• Brainstorming and collaborating with teams to create a variety of work that wows clients.

• Building brands by defining value propositions, outlining critical messages, and partnering with the creative team to develop visual and verbal identities.

• Running competitive audits, creating communication plans, and collaborating with creatives to activate campaigns.

• ImpactingSullivan’s success and momentum, with the opportunity to increase your responsibility.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE TEAM

• 7-10 years of relevant experiencein brand, marketing, or communications strategy, with substantial experience leading complex client engagements at an agency or consultancy.

• Track recordof rockstar client relationship building.You build real rapport with your clients, becoming a go-to resource to help them focus their thinking, while knowing when to push back.

• Breadth across strategy disciplines.You bringexpertisein brand strategy, messaging, communications, and campaign development and deployment, along with the versatility to work across them as client needsevolve.

• Experience navigating complex client organizations.You’vemanaged day-to-day relationships, engaged senior stakeholders, and built alignment across competing agendas whilemaintaininga clear strategic direction.

• A track recordof leading and developing teams.You’veoverseen multidisciplinary work, delegated effectively, coached colleagues, and helped build a culture of collaboration and accountability.

• Excellent communication and storytelling.You make complex ideas clear and persuasive, whetheryou’redeveloping messaging, writing a brief, building a presentation, or leading a client conversation.

• Passion for creative work.You recognize a strong idea, with the ability to articulate creative direction while evaluating the quality of both creative ideas and execution.

PEOPLE WHO THRIVE HERE ARE:

• Drivers.They dive in, bring others along, and driveworkforward. When something is unclear, they help create the clarity the team needs.

• Thinkers and doers.They enjoy wrestling with a complex strategic question and rolling up their sleeves to turn the answer intogreat work.

• Curiousenough to keep digging.They take an active interest in clients’ businesses, ask thoughtful questions,and like tochallenge the status quo.

• Confident and open-minded.They bring a point of view, welcome debate, and know that a stronger idea can come from anyone.

• Generous teammates and thoughtful leaders.They sethigh standards, share credit, give useful feedback, and help create a culture where people feel supported and accountable.

• Comfortable with complexity.They navigate ambiguity, shifting priorities, and competing perspectives while keeping sight of what matters and what needs to happen next.

HOW WE’LL SUPPORT YOU

• Close-knit team ofideatorswho love what we do and bring our fullselvesto work.

• Bothautonomyto work your way and access to leadership and mentors.

• Opportunities to share ideas, tackle challenges, and jump in to make consequential creative work.

• Fun environment withthemed happy hours, frequent game nights, and a collaborative spirit that runs through our office and online.

• Hybrid work model that values flexibility, comprehensive benefits, and an entrepreneurial culture where you can make your own path.