Director, Strategy Planning

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Oversee the development of integrated brand, marketing, content, and paid media strategies for significant, high-impact client projects.

• Work collaboratively with internal and client teams during project initiation to set goals, priorities, timelines, milestones, and identify opportunities for cross-functional integration and sustained growth.

• Gather, analyze, and synthesize both primary and secondary research to reveal actionable insights that shape positioning, messaging, campaign strategies, and audience engagement.

• Create and deliver strategy documents that are clear, persuasive, and actionable—assisting clients in aligning their priorities, identifying opportunities, and determining pathways forward.

• Collaborate closely with Creative, Media, Digital, Analytics, Accounts, and PMO teams to ensure that strategies are cohesive, insight-driven, and executed effectively across different channels.

• Recognize opportunities to enhance workflows, integrate deliverables, and maintain strategic continuity across various projects and teams.

• Develop and sustain project documentation, strategic frameworks, and planning materials that keep all stakeholders informed and aligned throughout the engagement.

⛳️ Requirements

• 6–8 years of experience in marketing, advertising, branding, digital, media, or roles related to strategy.

• Experience in a marketing, branding, or creative agency setting.

• Demonstrated experience in crafting integrated marketing, content, and brand strategies across digital, social, web, print, and paid media channels.

• Strong knowledge of audience research, messaging strategies, marketing planning, and campaign development.

• Capability to articulate media strategy concepts and unify paid, owned, and earned channels into coherent strategic plans.

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation abilities, with a talent for conveying complex ideas in a clear and persuasive manner.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to transform data into insights and actionable directions.

• Exceptional organizational and project management skills, capable of managing multiple priorities and deadlines in a dynamic environment.

• Proficient in research tools, project management software, collaboration platforms, social media management tools, and Microsoft Office Suite.

• Comfortable working with remote, cross-functional teams across the nation.

• Bachelor’s degree and/or a comparable combination of education and relevant experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package that includes nationwide health, dental, and vision coverage.

• 401(k) plan with employer contributions.

• Employer-sponsored life insurance and short-term disability coverage.

• Flexible time off (FTO) policy, with additional leave options for sick days, volunteering, and bereavement.

• Paid parental leave.

• A day off to celebrate your birthday.

• Agency-wide closures during the summer and winter seasons.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend to help cover routine wellness costs such as streaming services, gym memberships, or phone/internet expenses.