About the Role
Jack Morton Worldwide is seeking a Strategy Director to lead, grow, and deliver key B2C accounts with a focus on vision, strategy, and innovation. You will act as a senior business advisor, driving strategic planning and potentially leading the 'Ideas' component of client work, pushing for new and big ideas while managing integrated teams.
Responsibilities
- Provide expertise in integrated comms strategies and delivery platforms (launch, align, engage, build).
- Proactively bring new ideas to clients and internal teams to build brands and business.
- Own strategy development and the 'Ideas' component for pitches and ongoing work.
- Monitor and understand key trends and leading practices to innovate and push new ideas.
- Lead strategic design using quantitative and qualitative approaches to drive creative foundations and brand growth.
- Transform data and information into original brand stories and comms strategies.
- Identify new information sources to provide teams with trends, market analysis, and relevant points of view.
- Lead the development of creative briefs, articulating insights and a clear point of view.
- Influence senior clients to think big and help them sell strategic and creative work internally.
- Create white papers and participate in speaking engagements to elevate Jack Morton's visibility.
- Collaborate with creative and account teams to ensure effective connections across agency disciplines.
- Serve as a trusted advisor internally and externally at senior levels.
- Participate in hiring new team members to build strategy team capabilities.
Requirements
- 8+ years in a strategic role within a creative agency or management consulting environment.
- Experience with business, brand, and experience/environmental strategy.
- Experience with strategy and delivery of global C-level B2B and B2C brand experiences.
- Boardroom-ready presentation presence and skills.
- 8+ years strategic experience developing insights, identifying cultural trends, and inspiring big ideas that travel across channels.
- Ability to collect, read, analyze, interpret & synthesize information from various sources to develop strategic insights and points of view.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated key competencies: accountability for results, client focus, team effectiveness, developing others, creative thinking.
- Passion or experience in women's sports is a plus.
Skills
- Integrated comms strategies
- Brand strategy
- Experience/environmental strategy
- Strategic planning
- Innovation
- Creative brief development
- Client influence
- Market analysis
- Trend identification
- Quantitative analysis
- Qualitative analysis
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
Location
- NYC/Boston hybrid preferred
- US remote
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- 8+ years
About the Company
- At Jack Morton, we design and build head-turning, smile-inducing, impact-driving brand experiences that redefine what experiential marketing can achieve.
- We help our clients unlock the full value of experiences by turning bold ideas into meaningful connections.
- We build on each other's ideas, challenge conventions, and show up for one another every day.
- Here, you'll do your best work, grow quickly, and partner across clients, disciplines, and global teams to bring new ideas to life.
- This is a place where curiosity drives what’s next, boldness raises the bar, and every win is shared.
- Where ownership is expected, egos are left at the door, and the work reflects the passion and talent of the people behind it.
Equal Opportunity
- Jack Morton is an equal opportunity employer; we strongly value diversity at our companies. We do not discriminate on race, religion, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
