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About the Role

The VP, Strategy Director will lead strategy for some of Edelman's largest clients, 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.

Responsibilities

Lead integrated strategy across brand, purpose, reputation, and cultural initiatives.
Help clients uncover the human problem behind a business challenge and define how communications can create meaningful change.
Turn research, cultural intelligence, social listening and business data into clear, actionable strategic opportunities.
Develop compelling strategic frameworks, narratives, and creative briefs that inspire breakthrough ideas.
Guide annual planning and goal-setting, helping clients align around a clear vision and roadmap for success.
Identify shifts in consumer behavior, culture and lifestyle that can unlock new opportunities for the brand.
Ensure inclusivity is embedded throughout the strategic process and that the work resonates with diverse, intersectional audiences.
Be a close, trusted partner to creative teams from the first spark of an idea through launch and optimization.
Create the strategic conditions for work that is culturally relevant, emotionally resonant, and impossible to ignore.
Keep ideas grounded in the brief while giving teams the space and inspiration to take the work somewhere unexpected.
Ensure audience, channel, measurement, and activation plans connect back to the central strategy.
Interpret campaign results and identify opportunities to optimize the work, extend successful platforms, and build long-term brand equity.
Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to senior clients, bringing clarity, confidence, and a strong point of view to the table.
Develop deep relationships across the client’s marketing organization and broader agency-partner ecosystem.
Lead strategic conversations, workshops, and presentations that create alignment and help clients make confident decisions.
Proactively identify opportunities to expand the agency’s impact and deepen the client relationship.
Partner with account leadership to protect, strengthen, and grow the business.
Collaborate across creative, account, production, earned media, influencer, digital, social, technology, experience, and data and intelligence teams.
Connect different disciplines and perspectives around a shared strategic vision.
Navigate multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholders while maintaining a high bar for the work.
Create an environment where people feel supported, challenged, and empowered to do their best thinking.

Requirements

Deep experience leading brand, communications, creative, or integrated strategy within an agency, consultancy, or complex marketing organization.
A strong understanding of how brands build relevance, admiration, and consideration through culture and communications.
The ability to translate research and data into a sharp strategic point of view—and communicate it through compelling storytelling.
A track record of inspiring creative teams and helping ambitious ideas become strategically sound, integrated work.
Confidence building trusted relationships with senior clients and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
A collaborative and generous leadership style, balanced by a commitment to rigor and high standards.
Intellectual curiosity, cultural fluency, and a desire to continually find better ways to solve problems.
The ability to manage multiple priorities without losing sight of the people, purpose, or quality of the work.
8+ years in brand/communications strategy at a
Ability to follow our hybrid work policy

Skills

Brand strategy
Communications strategy
Creative strategy
Integrated strategy
Client counsel
Strategic leadership
Cross-functional collaboration
Business development
Mentorship
Cultural fluency
Simplifying complexity
Building trusted relationships
Inspiring teams
Inclusive work
Human insights
Cultural trends
Creative work
Brand growth
Research
Cultural intelligence
Social listening
Business data analysis
Strategic frameworks
Narrative development
Creative briefs
Annual planning
Goal-setting
Consumer behavior analysis
Inclusivity
Diverse audience engagement
Storytelling
Team inspiration
Client relationship management
Stakeholder management
Business growth
Team collaboration
Project management
Priority management

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

VP
Director
8+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

$105,000-$175,000 a year

Benefits

Medical and dental insurance
Vision
401K
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Paid time off
Travel assistance
Wellness programming
Annual bonuses
Paid Time Off policy

About the Company

We are in relentless pursuit of an equitable and inspiring workplace that is respectful of all, reflects and represents the world in which we live, and fosters trust, collaboration and belonging.
We 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.

Equal Opportunity

DJEH 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. If you require a reasonable accommodation in any part of the employment process, please let us know.