About the Role
Jack Morton Worldwide is seeking a Strategy Director to lead the vision, strategy, and innovation for key B2C accounts. You will act as a senior business advisor, driving strategic planning and often leading the 'Ideas' component of client work, pushing for new and innovative concepts.
Responsibilities
- Provide expertise in integrated communications strategies and delivery platforms (launch, align, engage, build).
- Proactively generate new ideas to build brands and businesses for clients and internal teams.
- Own strategy development and the 'Ideas' component for pitches and ongoing work.
- Monitor key trends and best practices to innovate and develop new ideas for clients.
- Lead strategic design using quantitative and qualitative approaches to drive creative foundations and brand growth.
- Transform data into original brand stories and communications strategies.
- Identify new information sources for trends, market analysis, and 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 enhance Jack Morton's market visibility.
- Collaborate with creative and account teams to ensure effective connections across agency disciplines.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior internal and external stakeholders.
- 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 of strategic experience developing insights, identifying cultural trends, and inspiring big ideas across channels.
- Ability to collect, read, analyze, interpret, and 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 communications strategies
- Brand strategy
- Experience/environmental strategy
- B2B and B2C brand experiences
- Presentation skills
- Strategic insights development
- Cultural trend identification
- Creative idea generation
- Data analysis and synthesis
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Client relationship management
- Team collaboration
Location
- NYC/Boston/Dayton NJ 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.
