Agency:
Omnicom Media
Job Function:
Media
Job Subfunction:
Media Planning and Buying
Job Description:
Team Overview:
Creo is Omnicom Media's (OM) Influencer marketing agency. Our mission is to connect brands with authentic
influencers, delivering data-driven influencer planning and activation as an integral part of our clients' media
strategies. We are seeking a strategic leader to shape the quality, direction, and impact of creator-led strategy
across our agency, translating culture, creativity, and commerce into work that drives measurable results for brands.
In this role, you will set strategic standards across accounts and teams, lead high-impact client and new business
initiatives, and help evolve the frameworks, tools, and ways of working that define how Strategy operates. The ideal
candidate will be a strategist who sees the full picture—from cultural insight to commercial outcome—and is equally
comfortable owning complex strategic work and guiding senior teams to do their best thinking.
The Senior Director, Strategy reports to the Chief Strategy Officer, Creo North America.
Responsibilities include:
Lead the strategic direction on new business RFPs and key client initiatives, defining how brands show up in
culture through creators and content with insight-led, differentiated approaches.
Set strategic standards and direction across high-impact client initiatives and new business, ensuring work is
insight-led, differentiated, and commercially grounded.
Interrogate briefs to uncover the core challenge, clarify objectives, and establish the strategic foundation for
creative, influencer, and performance-driven work.
Apply strong commercial judgment, connecting creator strategy to brand goals, performance metrics, and
ROI, translating customer insights into compelling content strategies.
Own the development of audience, cultural, creator and communications strategies that inform campaign
architecture, content planning, channel roles and measurement approaches.
Partner with senior leadership and new business teams to shape proposals and strategic approaches for
priority opportunities, ensuring clear vision and alignment.
Provide clarity and direction in moments of ambiguity, guiding teams and clients toward confident, aligned
decisions grounded in data and strategic insight.
Lead the development and oversight of Strategy team members, setting expectations for strategic quality and
consistency across all deliverables.
Operate as a senior individual contributor on the agency's most complex or high-stakes initiatives, while
guiding team members on standard workstreams and strategic craft.
Coach junior team members on judgment, leadership presence, and strategic craft, strengthening the overall
capability of the Strategy function.
Lead the rollout, adoption and continuous improvement of Strategy tools, frameworks and processes, helping
scale strategic excellence and consistency across the organization.
Help evolve and operationalize Creo's creator-led strategic methodologies across influencer casting, content
architecture, distribution and performance optimization.
Develop approaches that leverage creators as strategic partners and co-creators, ensuring creator insight
informs both strategy development and execution.
Translate emerging trends, audience behaviors, and platform shifts into practical implications for client
strategy and creative
work.
Illinois, New York:
$120,000.00-$230,000.00Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
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