Remote Strategy Director: Growth & Experience

Interpublic; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

dotdotdash, part of the Omnicom Advertising Group, is seeking a Strategy Director to lead strategic work for diverse client relationships in a fast-paced environment. You will turn complex challenges into actionable roadmaps, decode signals from culture and technology, and pair research with creative execution across disciplines.

You will guide workshops, mentor a small team, and help grow the practice with new offerings and AI-enabled insights.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior clients, constructively challenging assumptions and helping teams make consequential decisions.

Skills

Strategy leadership

Client relationship management

People management

Research & synthesis

Tools

Research & analytics tools

Social listening tools

Presentation software

Collaborative workspaces

Responsible AI workflows

Job description

dotdotdash, part of the Omnicom Advertising Group, is seeking a Strategy Director to lead strategic work for diverse client relationships in a fast-paced environment. You will turn complex challenges into actionable roadmaps, decode signals from culture and technology, and pair research with creative execution across disciplines.

You will guide workshops, mentor a small team, and help grow the practice with new offerings and AI-enabled insights.