Strategy Director - Redscout (NYC, NY)
As a Strategy Director, you manage strategy talent and lead interdisciplinary teams across multiple large accounts, building trusted relationships with C-suite level clients, shaping project methodologies, and setting the standards of leadership for junior team members. You are an escalation point for the Strategy team, providing guidance on how to navigate complex timelines, manage tricky client dynamics, and find successful solutions for challenging strategic questions. You will also work with your team to identify, nurture, and build client opportunities beyond the current project scope.
Compensation
$173,250
Responsibilities
As a Strategy Director, you are responsible for:
Project Work & Client Relationships
Leading cross-functional teams across several large projects and/or accounts; responsible for the business viability of projects and the quality of the work.
Building trusted and enduring relationships with C-suite clients.
Owning the overarching ‘story’ of accounts, ensuring Redscout’s vision and objective for relationship aligns with the work we’re doing each day.
Overseeing development and delivery of pitches and proposals in partnership with the new business team, ensuring the thinking is sharp and the approach is sound.
Leading the development of successful end-to-end project plans.
Spotting organic growth opportunities and working with client services partners to develop them into wins.
Managing complex and uncertain project situations with composure, drawing upon cross-disciplinary partners and leadership as needed to find a path forward. Team & Business Management
Being an inspirational leader for strategists at Redscout; ensuring the team is motivated, providing value, and delivering impact at the appropriate level.
Nurturing and developing junior talent as a direct manager, supporting the growth of your direct reports and those they manage.
Partnering with strategy team leadership to build the skills and capabilities of the strategy team overall; critiquing and elevating the work of strategists across Redscout.
Partnering with client services, growth, operations and design leaders to create successful relationships across the teams.
Responding to and addressing resourcing, personnel and client and operational challenges quickly and collaboratively; elevating to leadership when needed.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree
Prior Experience in a brand consultancy or similar setting
Ability to present with conviction and improvise as needed, answering questions and tailoring material to the conversation.
Narrative persuasion and storytelling, using visuals and written language to appeal to both emotion and reason.
Understanding of and ability to apply essential brand frameworks, methods, and tools.
Comfort with a range of qualitative research methodologies.
About Us
At Redscout, we work with clients to define the future of their businesses and brands. We love diving into new categories, exploring the edges of culture, and working on problems that give us a window
into how people think, work, and live. Scouts (that's what we call each other) have high standards for quality and a strong sense of community. We value learning, diverse experiences, original perspectives, personal growth, and mutual support. We're also entrepreneurial. You won’t always have the perfect template to work from, but you will always have a team to turn to for advice, help, and guidance as you create solutions together.
Diversity Mission Statement
**All Scouts lead the charge for change.**
This collective responsibility to make Redscout a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization is essential to our well-being and success. We value the qualities that make our employees the individuals that they are, and always encourage Scouts to show up as their authentic selves.
Employee Value Prop
Great work should shape and support you.
We believe that great work should leave a positive mark, so we’ve built a place to help Scouts grow as professionals and people. We ensure that as your career takes shape you have the resources required to thrive in all facets of your life.
Equal Opportunities
Redscout is an equal opportunity employer; All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
