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Director, Strategy

sullivan

About sullivan

  • WHO WE ARE At Sullivan, we’re driven by fearless curiosity.
  • Around here, asking bold questions, understanding what makes people tick, imagining fresh approaches to solve complex problems, and thinking creatively are all in a day’s work.
  • Together, we help organizations of consequence build and activate brands that move audiences to action.
  • Thinkers and doers.
  • They enjoy wrestling with a complex strategic question and rolling up their sleeves to turn the answer into great work.
  • Curious enough to keep digging.

Responsibilities

  • YOUR DAY-TO-DAY WILL LOOK LIKE As a Director of Strategy, you’ll be a champion for clients—leading accounts with strategic and creative insight.
  • Managing the health of an account from the micro to the macro level.
  • Working side-by-side with marketing teams and leadership at fortune 100 companies—from financial services to technology and beyond.
  • Becoming invaluable to your clients by putting structure around their challenges and building on their marketing agendas to help them fill gaps.
  • Diving into market research and conducting interviews to uncover insights to inform strategic and creative solutions.
  • Brainstorming and collaborating with teams to create a variety of work that wows clients.
  • Building brands by defining value propositions, outlining critical messages, and partnering with the creative team to develop visual and verbal identities.
  • Running competitive audits, creating communication plans, and collaborating with creatives to activate campaigns.
  • Impacting Sullivan’s success and momentum, with the opportunity to increase your responsibility.

Requirements

  • TO THE TEAM 7-10 years of relevant experience in brand, marketing, or communications strategy, with substantial experience leading complex client engagements at an agency or consultancy.
  • Track record of rockstar client relationship building.
  • You build real rapport with your clients, becoming a go-to resource to help them focus their thinking, while knowing when to push back.
  • Breadth across strategy disciplines.
  • You bring expertise in brand strategy, messaging, communications, and campaign development and deployment, along with the versatility to work across them as client needs evolve.
  • Experience navigating complex client organizations.
  • You’ve managed day-to-day relationships, engaged senior stakeholders, and built alignment across competing agendas while maintaining a clear strategic direction.
  • A track record of leading and developing teams.
  • You’ve overseen multidisciplinary work, delegated effectively, coached colleagues, and helped build a culture of collaboration and accountability.
  • Excellent communication and storytelling .
  • You make complex ideas clear and persuasive, whether you’re developing messaging, writing a brief, building a presentation, or leading a client conversation.
  • Passion for creative work.
  • You recognize a strong idea, with the ability to articulate creative direction while evaluating the quality of both creative ideas and execution.
  • They take an active interest in clients’ businesses, ask thoughtful questions, and like to challenge the status quo.
  • Confident and open-minded.

Benefits

  • Drivers.
  • They dive in, bring others along, and drive work forward.
  • They bring a point of view, welcome debate, and know that a stronger idea can come from anyone.
  • Generous teammates and thoughtful leaders.
  • They set high standards, share credit, give useful feedback, and help create a culture where people feel supported and accountable.
  • They navigate ambiguity, shifting priorities, and competing perspectives while keeping sight of what matters and what needs to happen next.
  • HOW WE’LL SUPPORT YOU Close-knit team of ideators who love what we do and bring our full selves to work.
  • Both autonomy to work your way and access to leadership and mentors.
  • Opportunities to share ideas, tackle challenges, and jump in to make consequential creative work.
  • Fun environment with themed happy hours, frequent game nights, and a collaborative spirit that runs through our office and online.
  • Hybrid work model that values flexibility, comprehensive benefits, and an entrepreneurial culture where you can make your own path.

PEOPLE WHO THRIVE HERE ARE

  • When something is unclear, they help create the clarity the team needs.
  • Comfortable with complexity.