Strategic Director

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Strategic Director based in Italy.** As Strategic Director, you will serve as the senior strategic lead across a global portfolio of three leading mobile apps within a major client account. You will set the overarching growth direction, connect priorities across products, and turn complex data and specialist insights into clear recommendations. Working at the intersection of strategy, mobile growth, and senior client leadership, you will own relationships from initial business questions through to final recommendations. You will guide multidisciplinary specialists, protect the quality and coherence of client work, and proactively identify opportunities and risks. This is a highly visible leadership role for someone who thrives on ambiguity, exercises strong judgment, and is comfortable making and defending strategic decisions. You will operate in a global, collaborative, and fast-moving environment where your perspective directly shapes client outcomes and business growth. ### Accountabilities - Set a unified growth strategy across three apps, ensuring priorities are connected and workstreams contribute to a coherent overall direction. - Own senior client relationships end to end, from understanding business challenges and opportunities to delivering actionable strategic recommendations. - Make clear strategic decisions when data is incomplete, ambiguous, or conflicting, and confidently communicate the rationale behind them. - Translate complex specialist analysis into concise, decision-ready recommendations that senior executives can quickly understand and act upon. - Take ownership of the quality and consistency of client deliverables, ensuring that narratives remain coherent across multiple workstreams and disciplines. - Lead cross-app and cross-functional challenges, risks, escalations, and dependencies through to clear and practical resolutions. - Proactively identify emerging opportunities, upcoming decisions, dependencies, and risks before they are raised by the client. - Coordinate multidisciplinary specialists by understanding incoming questions, bringing together the right expertise, and consolidating their input into a clear response. - Lead high-impact strategic moments, including planning sessions, executive updates, business reviews, and sensitive or complex client discussions. - Maintain a strong understanding of both the work and client stakeholders, ensuring continuity, context, and trusted senior-level engagement throughout the account. ## Requirements - Substantial experience managing senior client relationships at portfolio or account level within a consultancy, agency, or in-house growth environment. - Demonstrated experience developing and setting growth strategy across multiple mobile apps, products, or business lines simultaneously. - Strong knowledge of mobile growth, with the ability to challenge specialist perspectives, assess recommendations critically, and determine when deeper expertise needs to be brought directly into client discussions. - Proven experience leading executive-level conversations, including strategic planning, business reviews, escalations, and difficult or high-stakes discussions. - Strong strategic judgment and decision-making skills, with the confidence to make firm recommendations despite incomplete information or differing stakeholder opinions. - Excellent communication skills, particularly the ability to distill complex technical or specialist work into concise, compelling messages for senior decision-makers, both verbally and in writing. - Strong stakeholder management, leadership, and influencing skills, with the credibility to build trust with senior clients and multidisciplinary teams. - A proactive, commercially minded approach, with the ability to anticipate challenges and identify opportunities across a complex portfolio. - Familiarity with the interaction between ASO, user acquisition, CRM, and analytics workstreams is advantageous. - Experience contributing to pitches, RFPs, or other business development initiatives is a plus. ## Benefits - Remote working opportunity from within Europe. - Senior strategic leadership position with significant ownership and visibility across a major global client portfolio. - Opportunity to influence growth strategy across multiple leading mobile products and work alongside multidisciplinary specialists. - International and collaborative working environment with exposure to senior stakeholders and complex global challenges. - High degree of autonomy and responsibility in shaping strategic recommendations and client outcomes. - Opportunity to work at the intersection of mobile growth, strategy, analytics, ASO, user acquisition, and CRM. - Inclusive workplace committed to diversity and equal opportunity, welcoming people from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.