Strategy Director

interTrend Communications, Inc.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pet-friendly offices

Volunteer programs

Diversity and inclusion culture

Job summary

interTrend Communications, Inc. seeks a Strategy Director to lead our Strategy team as a player-coach, owning consumer insights, the creative brief, and how we measure success. You’ll partner daily with Creative, Media, Account, and Production and report directly to agency leadership.

You’ll write briefs, mentor 3–4 strategists, and own overall client strategy on our largest accounts, including automotive. You’ll build KPIs from day one and show whether the work worked, while shaping provocative

Qualifications

• 8+ years in agency advertising strategy
• 3+ years managing a team
• Strong fundamentals in research, insight, brand positioning, and communications planning
• Comfort with metrics, statistics and measurement
• Experience on large national clients
• Creative approach with a strong point of view
• Hands-on use of AI tools in research and planning

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow a team of 3–4 strategists through assignments, reviews and example
• Own overall client strategy on our largest accounts, including automotive
• Find insights specific enough to belong to one audience
• Write briefs that inspire award-winning work and present to senior clients
• Build measurement in from day one: set objectives, define KPIs and show results
• Bring provocative points of view to clients and teams
• Spot and shape projects with award potential
• Protect and grow client relationships and help win new business

Skills

Strategy leadership

Team management

Consumer insights

Creative briefs

Measurement & analytics

Client presentation

AI tools in planning

Tools

AI research tools

Job description

The Strategy Director leads our Strategy team as a player-coach: you'll write briefs yourself and mentor the strategists who write the rest. You own the work that comes before the creative: the consumer and cultural insight, the creative brief, and how we'll measure success.

You're the senior strategic owner of our client business and new business. You partner daily with Creative, Media, Account, and Production, and you consult on strategy well beyond your own team's assignments. You'll report directly to agency leadership.

We care more about how you think than where you've worked. You might be a senior strategist or associate director at a general-market agency who wants to go deep on culture. You might be a multicultural strategist ready to run a department. Either path works if your briefs make the work better and you can prove what it did.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach and grow a team of 3–4 strategists through assignments, reviews and example.
• Own overall client strategy on our largest accounts, including automotive.
• Find insights specific enough to belong to one audience. Asian American isn't one audience: origin, generation, language and life stage all change the answer.
• Write your own briefs that inspire award-winning work, and present them with conviction to senior clients.
• Build measurement in from day one: set objectives, define KPIs and show whether the work worked.
• Bring provocative points of view to clients and to our own teams.
• Spot and shape the projects with award potential.
• Protect and grow client relationships, and help win new business.

What you bring

• 8+ years in agency advertising strategy, including 3+ years managing a team. You're already at Senior Strategist or Associate Director level or above.
• Strong fundamentals in research, insight, brand positioning, creative briefs and communications planning.
• Comfort with metrics, statistics and measurement. You can read a tracking study, question a sample size and prove results.
• Experience on large national clients.
• A creative approach, a strong point of view and the confidence to present it to senior clients.
• A record of coaching strategists and growing agency business.
• Hands-on use of AI tools in research and planning, and the judgment to know where they fall short.

Strongly preferred

• Work on award-winning campaigns.
• Hands-on experience in media, creative or account service, in addition to strategy.
• Automotive category experience.
• Hands-on strategy work with Asian American consumers, ideally across more than one segment.

WHAT’S IT LIKE WORKING AT INTERTREND:

• Work with fun, loving yet hard-working individuals! Our biggest values center on dialogue, cross-functional collaboration, curiosity, and respect.
• Got a furry friend at home that you’ll miss? Bring them to work with you! We have multiple four-legged ambassadors at our offices to welcome you both.
• We’re a multi-cultural agency focused on the Asian American community, so if you’re passionate about the latest Asian American trends, culture, and media, openly share it!
• Want to give back to the community? Intertrend is not just about making a profit; we are also here to make a difference! Join us on our various volunteering programs and opportunities. Be an agent of change!
• Like to branch out to different tasks to learn and grow? We always have projects on hand seeking volunteers; you can seek out challenges that’ll help shape you!

We recognize that every candidate brings a different combination of experience and expertise. As a result, compensation is determined individually, taking into account job-related skills, relevant experience, education, training, and other factors that contribute to success in the role.