[Hiring] Senior Strategy Director @Level Agency

Role Description

The Senior Strategy Director plays a central role in shaping how the agency thinks, plans, and delivers impact for clients. This role is responsible for defining strategic direction across priority accounts and ensuring that media, creative, SEO, CRM, web, and analytics teams are aligned to a unified business objective.

This role requires an insight-driven mindset and the ability to translate complex business challenges into clear strategic direction. The Senior Strategy Director will guide growth diagnosis, define strategic priorities, and create the connective tissue across disciplines that ensures execution consistently ladders up to clear intent and measurable outcomes.

At our agency, strategy is not a service line, it is how we work. The Senior Strategy Director ensures that insight, planning, and decision-making are embedded throughout the lifecycle of our client partnerships.

Qualifications

• Strong experience developing integrated marketing strategies across multiple channels and disciplines.
• Proven media strategy and planning experience, with the ability to architect full-funnel, multi-stage media plans.
• Ability to translate business objectives into clear strategic direction that guides cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to derive meaningful insights from performance data, research, and market intelligence.
• Systems-thinking mindset with the ability to understand how messaging, channels, customer experience, and measurement connect.
• Excellent storytelling and communication skills, able to frame complex ideas in a clear and compelling narrative.
• Strong facilitation and collaboration skills, able to align cross-disciplinary teams around shared strategic priorities.
• Executive presence and confidence when presenting strategic recommendations to senior client stakeholders.
• Growth-oriented mindset with openness to feedback and continuous improvement.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple planning cycles and strategic initiatives simultaneously.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and bringing clarity to complex business challenges.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in marketing strategy, integrated strategy, brand strategy, media strategy/planning, or growth strategy within an agency or client-side environment.
• Demonstrated experience building and evolving media strategies across the full customer journey.
• Demonstrated experience developing cross-channel, integrated marketing strategies.
• Experience guiding annual planning, strategic roadmapping, and growth discussions with clients.
• Experience collaborating across media, creative, digital experience, CRM, and analytics teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, communications, or a related field.
• Industry experience in CPG or B2B is an asset but not required.
• Experience in the education sector (for-profit and/or not-for-profit institutions) is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Fully remote across the U.S. & Canada, plus monthly WFH stipend and Summer Fridays.
• Generous time off, including unlimited PTO (U.S.), competitive vacation (Canada), and parental/family leave options.
• Comprehensive health benefits, mental health support, and company-paid disability & life coverage.
• Employer retirement contributions (401(k) in the U.S., RRSP match in Canada).
• Quarterly performance reviews and career advancement opportunities.