Senior Director, Strategy - Brand & Creative

About the Role

As a Senior Director, Strategy – Brand & Creative, you'll lead our Brand Strategy discipline within this team. We're looking for someone who is passionate about building breakthrough brands, developing bold strategic thinking, and creating impactful work that moves businesses and culture forward.

TL;DR – You've already done this for global brands on some of the world's biggest stages. You've been in the room when major decisions are made and know how to earn your seat there. You care more about the work being great than being right. You know the difference between a brand truth and a brand claim—and can teach others. You've built brand strategy that doesn't stop at the brief. You know how great brand platforms translate into integrated campaigns, digital experiences, product launches, and customer touch-points. Most importantly, you're excited by the opportunity to lead and shape the Brand Strategy discipline within a larger, highly collaborative, AI-forward strategy organization.

Responsibilities:

• Global Brand Positioning: Lead development of foundational brand strategy, architecture, and positioning for this industry-defining tech giant across its full product portfolio. Make sure the brand stays consistent, clear and relevant whether it's showing up in São Paulo, Seoul, or San Francisco.

• High-Stakes Creative Strategy: Drive the strategic vision for highly-visible campaigns (e.g. Super Bowl spots, Olympics moments, global product launches, major repositionings). You've been in these rooms before and you know how to lead when the stakes are high.

• Creative Partnership: Be a trusted strategic partner to our Group Creative Directors. Write briefs that are provocative and inspiring, and stay deeply engaged throughout the creative process—from initial thinking through final execution. Thrive in a highly collaborative, iterative environment where strategies evolve through close partnership with creative teams and clients.

• Cultural Intelligence: Keep a genuine pulse on where culture is moving: what people care about, what's shifting, what's coming. Bring that fluency into the work before clients ask for it.

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead and mentor a team of three brand strategists. Foster an environment where rigorous thinking, creative ambition, collaboration, and curiosity thrive together. Help shape and elevate the Brand Strategy discipline within our broader strategy organization.

• Client Advisory & Business Growth: Build real, trusted relationships with senior marketing leaders at this multi-platform digital consumer and enterprise empire. Facilitate strategic conversations, confidently present recommendations, and influence key business decisions. Partner with Client Leadership and Creative teams to identify new opportunities, support proactive thinking, and lead strategic components of new business pitches.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with media, data, and AI teams to make sure the brand platform doesn't live in a deck — it translates into a full-funnel consumer experience, built with the speed and agilitya pioneering, fast-paced Silicon Valley innovator expects.

 

About You

The essentials:

• 12+ years of hands-on Brand Planning or Creative Strategy experience within established, award-winning creative advertising agencies, including at least 3 years in a senior leadership role. Deep experience developing brand platforms and integrated creative campaigns is essential.
• You've worked on major global brands and campaigns that ran everywhere, on briefs that had real stakes.
• Direct experience on high-profile, high-stakes campaigns: Super Bowl, Olympics, global product launches, or equivalent moments where the whole world is watching.
• You know how to build a global brand platform—not just a campaign, but the idea underneath it.
• The ability to take complex data and research and turn it into a simple, compelling idea that a creative team is excited to run with.
• You've partnered closely with Executive Creative Directors and know how to challenge, inspire, and elevate creative work from brief through execution.
• You've helped win new business and are comfortable leading the strategic portions of pitches and executive client presentations.
• A track record of leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing strategy teams. You're an empathetic leader who knows how to get the best out of people. 
• You're excited by the opportunity to lead, develop, and elevate an established Brand Strategy team within a larger, multifaceted strategy organization.
• You can command a room, sell a brave idea to a skeptical stakeholder, and always articulate the "why" behind the work.
• You're comfortable navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving client needs, and you enjoy collaborating with clients and creative teams throughout the strategic development process.
• Genuine curiosity about AI as a creative and strategic tool, not just a capability to check off.

Compensation:

The anticipated salary range for this position varies by geographic location. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including relevant experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, Monks offers a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for professional growth.

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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.

This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

Salary Range: 165000 - 185000 USD