VICE Media:
Communications Strategy Director Job in Brooklyn, VT

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<p>Communications Strategy Director (Virtue)</p>
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<p><strong>JOB SUMMARY</strong></p>
<p>The Communications Strategy Director leads a team of comms strategists within our integrated strategy department and helps define our comms offerings within the agency. They have a mix of media knowhow, cultural insight, and experience in working with creative campaigns at creative agencies to help shape how breakthrough work can, well, breakthrough in the world.</p>
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<p><strong>ROLES + RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p>
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<li>Works to define and implement comms offerings within the agency on new business pitches and all accounts.</li>
<li>Leads team of comms strategists to help ensure each project has a clear framework and plan of how to achieve goals.</li>
<li>Works closely with brand strategy, intelligence/data strategy to bring integrated strategic thinking to every project.</li>
<li>Collaborates with creative department to help shape campaigns and idea roll outs.</li>
<li>Is able to represent comms offerings in new business pitches.</li>
<li>Works to develop breakthrough ideas for key accounts, along with new business.</li>
<li>Understands clients’ businesses work across multiple verticals and can create long and short-term strategies that help reach business goals.</li>
<li>Owns, manages, and runs the strategy on multiple accounts seamlessly --- you are comfortable overseeing a team and have done so before.</li>
<li>Manages and mentors junior strategists on the team – being the person on the team they strive to be like.</li>
<li>Always strives to make the work better.</li>
<li>Constantly looks for ways to bring our briefs and frameworks to the next level, and increase visibility of the team within the agency, and across clients.</li>
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<p><strong>EXPERIENCE + SKILLSET</strong></p>
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<li>10+ years of relevant experience, especial experience leading teams.</li>
<li>Has experience in working with creative teams, on creative campaigns, in creative agencies beyond just media experience.</li>
<li>Understands how the comms discipline operates in an integrated agency.</li>
<li>Is able to work autonomously and entrepreneurially on a variety of assignments.</li>
<li>Can originate groundbreaking thinking based own data and findings</li>
<li>Can develop an insight or framework that becomes fundamental to our client’s business and worldview</li>
<li>Can adapt approach in real-time to ensure a winning outcome, regardless of the situation or dynamic</li>
<li>Can lead a group and contribute meaningfully to the growth and well-being of every person connected to them, while realizing an ambitious shared goal.</li>
<li>Works on the most complex, and largest client opportunities.</li>
<li>Has the respect and ear of SVP+ clients.</li>
<li>Leads pitches on our largest agency-changing opportunities</li>
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<p><strong>YOU</strong></p>
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<li>You are building on all the things you’ve learned and accomplished thus far in your career and helping to grow and shape our business by applying them.</li>
<li>You aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty and still write briefs/decks/frameworks.</li>
<li>You work as a unit with your account and creative partners.</li>
<li>You represent the agency at industry events.</li>
<li>You are an essential part of the agency’s growth and future.</li>
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