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Consistent with this approach, we hire the best qualified candidates for all positions.\nThe VP, Strategy Director will lead strategy for a major tech client, turning business challenges, consumer insights, and cultural trends into clear opportunities that inspire creative work and drive brand growth. The role combines senior client counsel, integrated strategic leadership, cross-functional collaboration, business development, and mentorship. The ideal candidate is an experienced, culturally fluent strategy leader who can simplify complexity, build trusted relationships, inspire teams, and deliver inclusive, high-impact work.\nThe Opportunity\nWe’re looking for a curious, culturally attuned, and collaborative strategy leader to help shape the future of a leading retail brand.\nAs VP, Strategy Director, you’ll be the senior strategic lead for one of the agency’s key client relationships. You’ll partner closely with clients and integrated agency teams to turn complex business challenges into meaningful human opportunities-and those opportunities into ideas that earn attention, inspire action, and drive brand growth.\nThis is a role for someone who loves getting close to the work while also seeing the bigger picture. You’ll set the strategic vision, inspire ambitious creative thinking, build trusted client relationships, and mentor the next generation of strategy talent. You’ll also play an important role in strengthening and growing the business, ensuring our strategic contribution continues to evolve alongside our clients’ needs.\nWhat You’ll Do\nShape the Strategy\nLead integrated strategy across brand, purpose, reputation, and cultural initiatives.\nHelp clients uncover the human problem behind a business challenge and define how communications can create meaningful change.\nTurn research, cultural intelligence, social listening and business data into clear, actionable strategic opportunities.\nDevelop compelling strategic frameworks, narratives, and creative briefs that inspire breakthrough ideas.\nGuide annual planning and goal-setting, helping clients align around a clear vision and roadmap for success.\nIdentify shifts in consumer behavior, culture and lifestyle that can unlock new opportunities for the brand.\nEnsure inclusivity is embedded throughout the strategic process and that the work resonates with diverse, intersectional audiences.\nInspire the Work\nBe a close, trusted partner to creative teams from the first spark of an idea through launch and optimization.\nCreate the strategic conditions for work that is culturally relevant, emotionally resonant, and impossible to ignore.\nKeep ideas grounded in the brief while giving teams the space and inspiration to take the work somewhere unexpected.\nEnsure audience, channel, measurement, and activation plans connect back to the central strategy.\nInterpret campaign results and identify opportunities to optimize the work, extend successful platforms, and build long-term brand equity.\nBuild Strong Partnerships\nServe as a trusted strategic advisor to senior clients, bringing clarity, confidence, and a strong point of view to the table.\nDevelop deep relationships across the client’s marketing organization and broader agency-partner ecosystem.\nLead strategic conversations, workshops, and presentations that create alignment and help clients make confident decisions.\nProactively identify opportunities to expand the agency’s impact and deepen the client relationship.\nPartner with account leadership to protect, strengthen, and grow the business.\nBring People Together\nCollaborate across creative, account, production, earned media, influencer, digital, social, technology, experience, and data and intelligence teams.\nConnect different disciplines and perspectives around a shared strategic vision.\nNavigate multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholders while maintaining a high bar for the work.\nCreate an environment where people feel supported, challenged, and empowered to do their best thinking.\nWho You Are\nYou are an experienced strategy leader who is equally energized by people, culture, creativity, and business. You know how to simplify complexity without losing what makes a challenge interesting, and you can move comfortably between a senior client conversation, a creative working session, and a coaching conversation with a developing strategist.\nYou bring:\nDeep experience leading brand, communications, creative, or integrated strategy within an agency, consultancy, or complex marketing organization.\nA strong understanding of how brands build relevance, admiration, and consideration through culture and communications.\nThe ability to translate research and data into a sharp strategic point of view-and communicate it through compelling storytelling.\nA track record of inspiring creative teams and helping ambitious ideas become strategically sound, integrated work.\nConfidence building trusted relationships with senior clients and navigating complex stakeholder environments.\nA collaborative and generous leadership style, balanced by a commitment to rigor and high standards.\nIntellectual curiosity, cultural fluency, and a desire to continually find better ways to solve problems.\nThe ability to manage multiple priorities without losing sight of the people, purpose, or quality of the work.\nBasic Qualifications\n8+ years in brand/communications strategy at a \nAbility to follow our hybrid work policy\nBachelor's degree or equivalent experience\nWhat You’ll Find Here\nYou’ll have the opportunity to shape meaningful work for a highly visible client, collaborate with talented people across a wide range of disciplines, and play a defining role in the growth of both the business and the strategy team.\nWe care deeply about the quality of our work and how we work together. We value different perspectives, generous collaboration, continuous learning, and leaders who are as invested in developing people as they are in delivering great work.\n$105,000-$175,000 a year\nAn employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, travel requirements, revenue-based metrics, any contractual agreements, and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of DJEH’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, a Paid Time Off policy, and region-specific benefits.\nDJEH offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance, vision, 401K, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance and wellness programing.\nDJEH is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and believes in diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek applications from all qualified candidates without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. 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