[Hiring] Group Strategy Director @Movement Strategy

Role Description

Movement Strategy is looking for a Group Strategy Director to lead the strategic output across a group of exciting brands at the forefront of technology and entertainment. You will guide the development and execution of best-in-class social strategy, produce and make sense of key cultural, consumer and market intelligence, provide trusted guidance to senior client partners, manage and develop a team of strategists, and foster a culture of curious collaboration and continuous learning within the department. You'll function as a critical member of a trio of group-level leaders responsible to ensure client needs, strategic vision, and broader business objectives stay aligned across business units.

What You'll Do:

• Strategic direction:
  • Own the strategic vision across all group accounts.
  • Lead the development of strategy playbooks for new and renewed accounts.
  • Establish the direction, goals, and strategic processes that the whole team builds on.
  • Ensure all strategy work is rooted in genuine consumer insight and business understanding.
  • Translate cultural, audience, platform and performance insight into actionable, compelling strategic narratives.
  • Lead platform-specific thinking across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X and emerging platforms.
  • Drive experimentation with new storytelling formats and creative approaches.
  • Partner well with creative teams to translate strategy into powerful, platform-native brand work.
  • Monitor cultural, competitive, and platform shifts; bring recommendations to the group leadership trio.
  • Act as the strategic integrator across departments.
• Team leadership:
  • Provide training and guidance for strategy team members.
  • Foster a culture of curious collaboration and continuous learning within the group.
  • Share responsibility with group-level leads for building a best-in-class team.
• AI and platform intelligence:
  • Partner with our data center to inform measurement frameworks and reporting.
  • Bring practical experience with AI tools.
  • Stay ahead of social platform and behavioral shifts.
  • Embed Movement’s proprietary data intelligence platform (Chassis) into strategy.
  • Guide strategists to leverage AI and tools responsibly.
• Client leadership:
  • Serve as a senior strategic advisor to our most senior clients.
  • Bring insight and strategic recommendations regularly and proactively.
  • Be the day-to-day strategic lead on one of the agency's largest accounts.
• Business leadership:
  • Understand revenue, margin, and burn across the group's accounts.
  • Partner with the account lead on annual and quarterly planning.
  • Work with group-level trio to build, refine, and own scopes of work.
  • Identify opportunities to expand scope or deepen the client relationship.
• New business:
  • Lead strategy for pitches and new business opportunities as needed.
  • Develop new business skills among junior and mid-level strategists.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in social and cultural strategy, ideally in a fast-paced agency setting.
• Proven success leading and developing strategy teams across multiple accounts.
• Comfortable working with performance data and translating it into strategic direction.
• Able to conduct thorough consumer and cultural research.
• Familiarity with tools like GWI, Brandwatch, or Resonate.
• Adept at transforming cultural insight and platform trends into clear, actionable strategy.
• A collaborative, emotionally intelligent leader.
• Skilled at merging culture, creativity, and insight into strategies that drive measurable brand impact.
• A passion for staying at the forefront of social trends and platform shifts.

Requirements

• High energy, passionate, curious, confident, and tenacious in learning.
• Ability to navigate the nuances of different client teams.
• Proven change management acumen.
• Strong communicator able to formulate an informed point of view quickly.
• Nimble self-starter and able to quickly adjust to internal and external teams.
• Proactive and naturally curious about the digital and social space.
• Passionate about the work you do and take personal accountability for the success of your clients.
• Track record of success in building strong relationships and leading teams.
• Diverse and inclusive perspective, valuing different viewpoints and backgrounds.
• Attention to detail ensuring high quality standards.

Benefits

• 100% employer contribution for health (base plan), vision, and dental.
• 401K Retirement Plan with Company Match.
• Short and Long Term Disability.
• Life Insurance & AD&D.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Fully-Remote Agency.
• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Take-As-You-Need Paid Time Off.
• 10 days minimum required off per year.
• (11) Company Paid Holidays.
• Week-Long Winter Agency Closure.
• Support for continued education.
• New Business Referral Bonus.
• Movement Journey Program - Stipend for personal growth.
• Health and Wellness Program.
• WeWork Membership.
• Positive Impact and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committees.
• Employee Resource Groups.