Group Strategy Director
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About the Role
We’re looking for a Group Strategy Director to lead strategic thinking for one of the world’s most iconic tech brands. You’ll sit at the intersection of creativity, data, and culture—owning end-to-end strategy across campaigns, platforms, and partnerships.
This isn’t a classic planning role. You’re orchestrating, and innovating, across disciplines—from Comms and CRM to Social, Experience, and Culture. You’ll guide your team through the complexity of integrated marketing and inspire strategic excellence across brand, product, and performance.
This is a leadership role for a cross-capable thinker who can operate in real time, unlock scaled creativity through AI, drive proactive strategic thinking, elevate the creative product, and ultimately grow the business. You’re both a visionary and a doer, equally comfortable in C-suite rooms and creative collab rooms.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Strategic Development: Own the strategic vision across key accounts, uniting brand, product, comms, and cultural strategy to drive business impact and creative excellence.
- Client Leadership: Act as a senior strategic voice to top-tier client stakeholders. Translate business needs into actionable, insight-driven strategies and champion them internally.
- Cross-Disciplinary Orchestration: Collaborate fluidly across departments—Experience, Social, CRM, Culture, and Data—to ensure strategy is integrated from pitch-to-delivery.
- AI-Forward Strategy: Leverage AI tools and thinking to accelerate strategy development and deliver scale across creative and media workflows.
- Real-Time Intelligence: Shift from static reports to live, real-time cultural and competitive insights. Elevate team capabilities to engage with always-on trends and brand moments.
- Strategic Tools & Frameworks: Implement shared strategic tools—Brand Compass, Strategy-on-a-Page, Comms Calendars, Culturegraphics—to create alignment and clarity across teams.
- Creative Collaboration: Partner closely with creative leadership (ECDs, CCOs) to spark work that competes with the industry’s best. Help elevate our creative reputation in-market.
- Thought Leadership & Visibility: Raise your presence internally and externally. Champion our best work, lead strategic showcases, and contribute to Monks’ voice in the industry (e.g. Cannes, ROAR, Culture of the State reports).
- Entrepreneurial Growth: Identify client pain points and whitespace opportunities. Drive proactive ideas that position us for organic growth beyond the brief.
- Team Development: Mentor and develop strategic talent at all levels. Inspire the next generation of hybrid, real-time, AI-fluent strategists.
About You
The essentials:
- You’re a multi-disciplinary strategist who can think big, move fast, and lead across brand, comms, performance, and product.
- You have 15+ years of experience in strategy roles within creative agencies, consultancies, or forward-leaning brands.
- You think in culture, commerce, and code—grounded in insights, fluent in tech, and inspired by creativity.
- You’re passionate about AI’s potential in marketing, and actively explore how it scales and sharpens strategic delivery.
- You lead with clarity and collaborate like a builder, comfortable in ambiguity and skilled at aligning diverse teams around a shared vision.
- You love storytelling, not just reporting. You bring sharp hypotheses, rich context, and bold narratives to every brief.
- You’re not waiting for the ask—you’re chasing the opportunity. Entrepreneurial and proactive by nature, always seeking new ways to create impact.
- You’re globally-minded, tuned into what’s happening across markets, platforms, and pop culture.
At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
What We Offer
Benefits
- Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
- Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
- 401k with company contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
- Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
- A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
- Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
