AKQA
Group Strategy Director - Freelance
New York · Director · Contract
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About the role
- Strategists at AKQA apply curiosity, rigor, and imagination to uncover truths across customer, culture, product, and brand, framing problems in unexpected ways and shaping insight into clear creative direction.
- Group Strategy Directors are senior strategic leaders who set the agenda across accounts and the agency, relied upon for clarity, leadership, and perspective by internal teams and clients alike.
- If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.
Responsibilities
- You will partner closely with account, creative, product, and technology leadership to grow the business, elevate the work, and ensure that strategy ladders all the way through to beautifully delivered digital products, services, and experiences.
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands.
Requirements
- Significant experience in a strategic discipline, with a CX, digital, communications, or consulting background
- Proven ability to judge creative ideas for their distinctiveness, relevance, and effectiveness
- Experience in insight and idea generation, with the ability to translate strategy into tangible products, services, and experiences
- A proven track record of leading and growing strategic, creative, and technology-centered work
- must be available to work Eastern Time hours
- That's why we've adopted a hybrid approach including required in-office days.
Compensation
- Expected weekly compensation: 5,000 to 6,000 USD
Benefits
- With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.
Company info
- They understand how business, brands, and customers interact, with a deep appreciation for the role technology plays in that relationship.
- We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
- At AKQA (part of WPP) we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services.
- We are seeking an experienced Freelance Group Strategy Director with deep CX and digital strategy expertise to lead strategic thinking for one of the most established names in financial services, a brand trusted by millions to help them plan for their futures.
Equal opportunity
- AKQA is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics.
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