Strategy Director

Who We Are

Requirements

• What You’ll Be Responsible For
• Strategic Leadership: Lead the development of innovative social strategies for key clients to unlock their creative potential across different social platforms that deliver against client objectives. Influence the agency's approach to strategic thinking across social platforms, providing leadership and mentorship to the strategy team.
• Client Growth and Relationship Management: Serve as a trusted point of contact for senior clients, building long-term relationships through strategic social insights and results-driven recommendations. Lead senior client presentations, workshops, and strategy sessions to define goals, KPIs, and success metrics.
• Trend Analysis & Innovation: Stay ahead of emerging trends, platforms, tools, and technologies within the social media and digital marketing landscape, integrating cutting-edge strategies into campaign planning and execution. Foster innovation by challenging conventional thinking.
• Activation with Creative, Paid & Influencer: Worked closely with Creative, Influencer and Paid teams to ensure ideas are platform-native, culturally fluent and scalable. Use paid media to test, learn and optimise, not just amplify and partnered with influencer teams to design authentic, creator-led distribution strategies.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Client Services to support pro-active lead generation and client expansion. Collaborate effectively with Creative, Content, Research, and Cultural Insight teams to unlock ever-evolving creative output and ensure strategy aligns with creative and media execution.
• Team Leadership & Development: Lead and inspire the broader team of strategists, providing mentorship, career development, and training to foster a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• What You’ll Have Delivered Elsewhere
• Strong strategic social thinking with the ability to translate business goals into actionable marketing strategies that can be executed creatively and effectively.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills; able to articulate complex ideas simply to clients, creative and internal teams alike.
• Data-driven mindset, with experience using analytics tools to inform decision-making and optimise campaigns.
• Strong knowledge of social and digital channels and how to build brands on social media that can then stretch more broadly into traditional media.
• Understanding of the principles of effectiveness in social, social KPIs and proxies.
• Creative problem solver with a passion for social media trends and digital innovation.
• Proven track record of helping improve creative output through strong strategic thinking.
• Demonstrable understanding of brand building beyond traditional media.

Benefits

• Our Culture and the Nice Stuff
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social. We are transparent about the changes that are needed, we are focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry and we strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL. Our Charter for Change in the UK can be found here which details our focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2025.
• If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via [email protected] So let’s get to the good stuff, we offer all those things you would naturally expect; 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance. But what we love most is connection, so we have our WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world!
• But what’s life around here really like day-to-day? Well, we ask our people regularly what they think about us/their role and here are some of the most common things they say:
• I value my manager we have a good relationship
• We love to ‘get social’ with the people I work with
• Trusted to get on with the job, without ‘micro-management’!
• If this all sounds like the place you have been waiting to find then apply now! What are you waiting for?