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About the Role

We are looking for a Strategy Director to lead a team of strategists and collaborate with experts across APAC. This role will guide strategy for all things Japan, focusing on social media trends, community management, and driving sales through innovative creative and strategic solutions.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of strategists, social insights analysts, and community experts.
Conduct research.
Write briefs.
Guide work.
Pitch to clients.
Deliver fantastic, big, bold, beautiful work.
Lead collaboration sessions with other teams.
Manage the ongoing performance of different tasks or projects.
Administer agreed goals or projects by dealing to challenges in a responsive and constructive way.
Foster positive internal communication and collaboration with all internal teams.
Ensure presented ideas are clear and understood.
Highlight new ideas to the team and external stakeholders when appropriate.
Provide clear, professional, timely and helpful information to the team or external clients and partners.

Requirements

Based in Tokyo.
Eight plus years of experience in the social media digital space in Japan.
Inspiring with a can-do attitude.
Desire to deep dive into the world of media and creative advertising agency.
Problem solver at heart and insanely curious about people, culture and technology.
Obsessed with researching & finding interesting things.
Adept at translating findings into compelling creative briefs.
Enjoy partnering with teams to see work through from research to execution.
Communicate work with passion and conviction.
Big thinkers yet hands-on in execution.
Value creativity in research.
Value an outside-in perspective when it comes to inspiration, strategic frameworks and problem-solving.
Geek out about understanding behaviors in context.
7 plus years experience building integrated programs at a top agency working for Fortune 500 clients.
Must have experience understanding the intersection of business strategy, consumer insights, and digital behavior and developing big, purposeful ideas.
Experience doing traditional, web, social, syndicated and primary research (incl.: NetBase, MRI, Sysomos, Brandwatch, eMarketer, Mintel, Google Analytics, Omniture; conducting IDIs, digital ethnographies, etc.).
Dazzling presentation skills and presence in a room.
Ability to express complicated concepts in simple and digestible ways.
Curious and lovely to get along with.
Deliver work independently on all tasks and achieve results at pace with energy and drive.
Execute a strong sense of priority level and urgency.
Understanding and ownership of internal processes for quality assurance.
Strive for zero mistakes or flagged internal process issues on work output.
Think logically even under pressure and come up with innovative solutions to problems.
Genuine belief in bringing your full self to what you do everyday.
See “work” as a calling and a passion.
Portfolio would be nice.

Skills

Social media trends
Memes
TikToks
Influencer marketing
Social media community management
Strategy
Research
Creative briefs
Client presentations
Integrated programs
Business strategy
Consumer insights
Digital behavior
Traditional research
Web research
Social research
Syndicated research
Primary research
NetBase
MRI
Sysomos
Brandwatch
eMarketer
Mintel
Google Analytics
Omniture
IDIs
Digital ethnographies

Location

Tokyo

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

7 plus years experience

About the Company

VaynerX is the most contemporary family of companies, working together to build and grow brands.
VaynerMedia is a contemporary global creative and media agency with an expertise in driving relevance for clients and delivering impactful business results.
The independently-owned company was founded in 2009 by Gary Vaynerchuk.
VaynerMedia has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Mexico City, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Tokyo, and Sydney.
VaynerMedia has been recognized for its work at Cannes Lions, the Clio Awards and The Webby Awards.
Culture is our key and Empathy is how we build it.
VaynerMedia APAC is strong with a world-class combination of diverse backgrounds collaborating to put forward innovative, creative and strategic solutions.
We propel some of the biggest brands in the world to the intersection of attention and culture.
In APAC, we are proudly +300, servicing a diverse client all around the region.
Think “lab” and not “agency”.
We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising.
Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep.
We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft.
Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to.