Droga5 Senior Strategist

Who we areDroga5, part of Accenture Song, is a creative agency with offices in New York, London, Dublin, Tokyo and São Paulo. From integrated communications and experience innovation to business design, Droga5 exists to build and sustain the most influential brands of the 21st century through creativity. Droga5 was founded in 2006 and has been recognized as Agency of the Year more than 25 times and was named both Ad Age and Adweek’s Agency of the Decade (2010–2019). Visit Droga5.com or @droga5 on all social platforms to get to know us better.Strategy is core to our process at Droga5, ensuring that brand, consumer journey, media thinking all bolstered by data and research is embedded into the creative development process. Job SummaryAs a Senior Strategist at Droga5, you are emerging as a leader in the strategy group. You have learned how to consistently nail inspiring, original, sharp strategic ideas for project / campaign briefs with a strong point of view that demand outstanding execution. You understand that thoughtfulness, empathy, and natural curiosity are necessary components in good strategy. You can craft a clear and influential story, backed with evidence, and dripping with vision and creative potential. You push for idea-led integrated solutions that go beyond the obvious and are generally consumed with how to make good work great.At this point in your career you’ve demonstrated an ability to find opportunities for strategy to go beyond the brief, have experience with and are eager to learn about the various strategic disciplines (brand, comms, data) to build out systems of work, responsible for work that stretches across an entire paid, owned, earned ecosystem. You have successfully demonstrated experience in social first and culture forward solutions. You own and lead the day to day on projects. You are comfortable with designing and managing third party research leveraging AI and new tools to identify insights, and are generally owning more and more responsibility. You’ve become someone who clients rely on for insight, who creative teams lean on for support and inspiration, and who feels as comfortable alone with a whiteboard as they do on a stage pitching a brave idea.You are relentlessly curious about the world around you and enjoy keeping up with the shifting media landscape with a keen eye for social spaces.Job ResponsibilitiesChampion both the strategic and creative work in internal and client settingsSupport the creation of the strategic foundations for existing and new clientsRanging from big brand vision briefs to executional briefsPlanning, shaping, and helping execute and organize creative that lives in client organic and paid social content calendars and paid plansSupport creative teams in both developing big concepts into executable ideasContribute to/support agency thought leadership in developing media and cultural spacesBasic Qualifications5+ years in a strategy role at creative agency or applicable experience in adjacent industry and roleExpertise commissioning and executing research, including guiding the type of research to be performed and selling the proposal to clientsProficient and experienced in supporting and developing strategic deliverables (vision, research, briefs, tactical development) Proficient and experienced in supporting and developing social specific needs across a variety of platforms, keeping up with the latest updates and seamlessly integrating pertinent information into creative and planning workstreamsDemonstrated ability to impactfully contribute to the strategic direction of an accountExcellent written and verbal communication and presentation skillsAbility to guide and extend development of the creative workOrganized, able to multi-task in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment and to solve for new processes and client/team needsAdept at developing strong relationships both internally and externallyPreferred QualificationsBachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent training and/or experienceCompensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. 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