Senior Director, Content & Creativity

Adelphi Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

PHd in New York is seeking a senior creative lead to strategize, brainstorm, and execute high-impact content partnerships across major brand portfolios. You will collaborate with Experience Strategy, Investment and client leadership to shape culturally driven narratives and activate across digital and traditional media.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, production oversight, and data-driven measurement to prove value and drive growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in branded content, integrated partnerships, or strategic partnership development
• Creative and adaptive, entrepreneurial, culturally aware
• Passion for all forms of entertainment and cultural zeitgeist
• Experience in concept development, production oversight, talent contracting/management, and working with media partners
• Exceptional project management across multiple streams and teams
• Strong problem solving, pressure handling, and follow-through
• Excellent verbal and written communication for pitches, research, and client presentations
• Experience implementing measurement models to prove value and program success
• Peer-level client management and proven client service track record

Responsibilities

• Define the vision for content experiences and entertainment initiatives for clients; collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Mine insights with Experience Planning and Strategy to deepen consumer connections
• Develop recommendations with provocative insights and cultural proof points
• Implement measurement models to justify investment and quantify results
• Align content programs with broader strategic priorities across media strategy and investment teams
• Stay current on content, storytelling and tech trends
• Support leadership with presentation materials and ad hoc meetings
• Assist with new business pitches and collateral as needed
• Oversee execution of programs from strategy to ideation to development to delivery
• Lead multi-platform distribution plans for programs across digital, linear, and social
• Manage timelines and production schedules, ensuring deadlines
• Ensure KPIs are tracked and optimization plans are in place
• Coordinate internal and external work streams during development and production

Skills

Creative leadership

Cultural understanding

Media partnerships

Project management

Communication

Measurement & analytics

Account management

Job description

Agency:

PHd

Job Function:

Creative

Job Subfunction:

Creative Direction

Job Description:

The Content & Creativity team works with clients to develop custom, cross-platform brand experiences that create deeper consumer connections through culture. The team taps into a broad network of digital publishers, production companies, television networks, movie studios, social platforms, and streaming networks to produce breakthrough storytelling from large-scale properties to smaller, original programs, covering all budget levels and brand program needs.

This right brain/left brain role will strategize, brainstorm, develop, and execute content partnerships for multiple brand portfolios, and will have the opportunity to work across new lines of business growth within PHD.

To be successful in this role, you need an understanding of how to establish brand connections through creative media leveraging culture, new media real estate and big thinking.

You take a holistic view to drive smarter thinking that generates more interesting and richer territories for a brand to explore. You’ll work in creative collaboration with all teams – including other members of the Content team, Client Business Leadership, Experience Strategy and Investment - to inspire and inform culturally led content and experiences.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in branded content, integrated partnerships, or strategic partnership development
• Ability to think differently: creative and adaptive, entrepreneurial, independently minded; deeply immersed in cultural understanding and driven by a desire to know more of the world / to better understand people’s motivations and behaviors in the shifting landscape
• Relentless pursuit of cultural zeitgeist and passion for all forms of entertainment
• Experience in concept development, production oversight, talent contracting/management, and foundational understanding of working with and managing media partners
• Exceptional project management skills, with ability to manage multiple work streams and multiple teams with strong quality control
• Ability to address challenges, work under pressure, follow-through and solve problems quickly in the face of challenges
• Ability to effectively and confidently communicate information in both verbal and written formats (Development of ideas, pitches, research and recaps, client presentations, etc.
• Experience implementing effective measurement models, synthesizing data to prove value and program success
• Can manage peer level clients with a successful track record in account management and client service

Responsibilities

Strategic & Functional Team Lead:

Define the vision for content experiences & entertainment initiatives on behalf of our clients; work with cross-functional teams to bring this vision to life

• Work hand-in-hand with the Experience Planning and Strategy teams to mine insights that will help establish deeper connections with consumers and that inform and inspire your big media thinking
• Actively build out opportunities that deliver on our clients’ marketing and media objectives with networks, digital publishers, and more
• Develop sound recommendations to clients, with provocative insights, big ideas, cultural proof points and compelling tactics
• Understand and implement approved measurement models to justify investment and quantify results from programs
• Develop close relationships with media strategy and investment teams to align our team’s content programs to broader strategic priorities
• Stay atop of content, storytelling and technology trends and how those impact the client business
• Support the Managing Executive Director and Client Business Lead s with presentation materials, status updates, and ad hoc meetings to ensure successful communication with advertising and media clients and agency partners on a consistent basis
• Offer support to Hearts and Science Leadership on new business pitches and marketing collateral on an as-needed basis

Execution:

Act as a content expert for clients, integrated agency teams, and partners to oversee the execution of multiple programs across the year

• Serve as the day-to-day point of contact and content expert for clients, integrated agency teams, and partners to execute multiple programs across a calendar year, from strategy to ideation to creative development to execution.
• Lead development and activation of multi-platform distribution plans for programs across digital, linear and social
• Develop and execute timelines, manage production schedules, adhere to deadlines, set up/organize internal/client meetings, and enforce ongoing team communication throughout program
• Ensure pre, during and post program measurement and optimization plans align to KPIs and are in place for each program
• Manage internal and external work streams and production process for assigned projects during the creative development phase; development phase will require help with producing written and visual materials such as brand briefs to share with partners, client recommendations, program overviews, and more

$120,000-$230,000

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