We are a global digital agency comprised of strategists, creatives, media experts, data scientists, and engineers driven by one common purpose — accelerate business growth through marketing and digital transformation. Named a top 3% Google Premier Partner and recognized by Inc. 5000 and Adweek’s 75 Fastest Growing Companies, we’re constantly looking for “A” players to join our team.

The rapid growth is attributed to our strongest asset — our people. Our teams are highly collaborative and work closely with each client to set clear goals and objectives so that we can deliver exceptional results. Mindgruve is a place where every opinion is valued. Not only will you be empowered to contribute ideas, but you will also play a key role in the execution and driving success for brands across a variety of industries. Sound fun? Perfect — you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

You’re a strategist with range and a specialty. There’s a discipline you’ve mastered, the one other strategists call you about, and you have the breadth to connect it to brand, audience, channel, and business results. You find insights, and then you do the harder part: you turn research, data, and culture into a point of view clear enough for a creative team to run with and strong enough for a CMO to fund.

As Director of Strategy, you’ll own the strategy, roadmap, and business outcomes for 2 to 4 major client accounts. This is a hands-on role. You’ll do the thinking, write the work, and present it to the client.

What You’ll Do Here

Client Strategy Leadership

Present recommendations to C-suite and senior client stakeholders
Partner with account, creative, and media leadership to keep the work connected to the strategy

The Work

In a typical year, you’ll lead or build

Brand positioning, messaging frameworks, and brand architecture recommendations
Creative briefs and campaign platforms
Annual and integrated marketing plans
Launch and go-to-market strategies
Audience segmentation, personas, and journey maps
Competitive and category analyses
Research plans and synthesis, from stakeholder interviews to brand tracking
Measurement frameworks and KPI plans
Digital experience strategy for websites and platforms
Quarterly business reviews and growth recommendations
Pitch strategy and new business narratives

The Shape We’re Looking For

We’re hiring a T-shaped strategist: broad across the strategy disciplines and deep in at least one.

The breadth we expect

Brand strategy: positioning, value proposition, messaging, and brand narrative
Integrated planning: connecting audience, message, and channel into a full-funnel plan
Insight generation: research, competitive analysis, segmentation, and journey mapping, synthesized into a point of view
Briefing: briefs creative teams can act on and clients can approve
Measurement: setting KPIs and turning performance data into next steps
Business acumen: understanding how clients make money and how marketing moves it

Where you go deep

You bring real mastery in at least one of these. We care less about which one than about the work behind it.

Brand architecture and portfolio strategy
Launch and go-to-market strategy
Digital and AI-enabled strategy (digital experiences, platforms, and how AI changes the way marketing works)
Research and insights
Customer experience and journey design
Measurement and analytics
CRM and lifecycle

In your application, tell us where you go deep and point us to one piece of work that proves it.

Requirements

Agency experience: significant agency-side strategy experience, ideally in a Director-level or comparable role leading strategy across multiple client accounts
Experience: 10+ years in marketing and strategy, with at least 5 in a senior strategic role
Depth: demonstrated mastery in at least one of the areas above
Education: bachelor’s degree or above

How You Work

Curious by default. You ask the second and third question, take as much interest in a client’s business as in its marketing, and change your mind when the evidence calls for it.
Driven by outcomes. You measure your work by what it changes for the client