Director of Creative Strategy

Job description

Superside is hiring a Director of Creative Strategy to lead and evolve our Strategy function. You'll shape how strategy drives creative excellence across the business, leading a team of strategists while partnering with executive customers and internal leaders to solve complex business challenges through insight-driven creativity. You'll define the future of strategy at Superside, building scalable frameworks, growing strategic talent, and ensuring strategy becomes a key driver of customer success, creative quality, and commercial growth. ### What You'll Do - Lead, mentor, and develop the Creative Strategy team, fostering high performance and continuous growth. - Define the vision, standards, and operating model for Strategy across Superside. - Partner with senior customer stakeholders to solve complex business challenges and strengthen long-term relationships. - Guide strategic development across major customer engagements, ensuring consistently high-quality thinking. - Build frameworks, methodologies, and best practices that scale strategic excellence across the organization. - Partner with Creative, Marketing, Sales, Product, and Account teams to shape integrated customer solutions. - Champion AI-powered ways of working that improve research, strategic thinking, and creative development. - Identify opportunities to expand strategic services, contributing to customer growth and new business. - Use market intelligence, customer insights, and performance data to shape strategic priorities and innovation. - Represent the Strategy function internally and externally, helping position Superside as a leader in AI-powered creative strategy. ### What You'll Need To Succeed - 8+ years of experience in strategy within creative, advertising, branding, or digital agencies. - Proven experience leading and developing high-performing strategy teams. - Strong track record advising senior stakeholders and executive customers. - Deep expertise in brand strategy, digital marketing, creative effectiveness, and customer insights. - Experience building strategic frameworks, methodologies, and scalable ways of working. - Commercial mindset with experience contributing to customer growth, business development, or strategic consulting. - Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable business and creative strategies. - Experience integrating AI into strategic research, planning, and creative development. - Exceptional communication, facilitation, and presentation skills. - Ability to influence cross-functional leaders and drive strategic alignment across the business.