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Game Seven Agency · 5 months ago

Director of Creative Strategy

positionNew York, NY
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityDirector/Executive
money$150K/yr - $175K/yr
date8+ years exp

Game Seven Agency is a full service creative and experiential agency that focuses on sport, music, and culture. As the Director of Creative Strategy, you will lead the development of strategic playbooks and creative platforms while managing a team of strategists to create impactful brand partnerships.

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Responsibilities

Serve as the Strategy Lead on key workstreams (project-based and AORs), owning the strategy playbook, creative platform, big ideas, and activation plans
Manage and provide oversight to Strategists on projects, with feedback and direction that helps them build great work and sell their plans through to our clients
Work closely with both Game Seven and Excel Brand Marketing teammates on the daily, serving as the Strategy thought leader on some of our biggest joint projects
Lead on new partnership-based RFP's, collaborating closely with Accounts, Creative, Partnership Strategy, and Production pitch amazing strategic & creative proposals
Develop and implement new processes on our partnership-based workstreams that helps the team work better (ie. how to get clients to brief us better)
Serve as a strategic thought partner to our clients by helping define and shape the brand's vision/role for their partnership with a roadmap for our team to help them get there
Go from brief to execution, being able to take in a client brief, build out a plan, and follow through on the execution of creative and production
Build amazing decks. Great copy. Elevated design. Great visual references. Then, present and pitch your work to internal and external leaders, often Director, VP, or CMO-level
Assist in the development and growth of our Brand Strategy specialty (expertise, hiring, etc.) as we grow with current and new clients
Stay tapped in on our brand, their partner, the sport, and social to provide timely and reactive ideas that help them maximize the partnership marketing

Qualification

Creative strategyBrand partnership marketingBuilding strategy decksGoogle Slides proficiencyLeadership skillsCommunicationStorytellingPassion for sportsProblem-solvingCollaborationTaking initiative

Required

8+ years of working in creative/strategy – agency, brand, tech preferred
2-3 years of managing direct reports
Portfolio of brand partnership work (sport, music, entertainment are a plus)
Great taste in creative work, strong level of polish in your own work
Experience building full strategy decks (copy, flow, design)
Strong leadership skills and experience helping people grow in their roles
Proficiency in creating Google Slides decks (design, layout, speed, familiarity)
Passion for brand partnership work, especially in sport
Excellent pitching, storytelling, and communication skills

Benefits

Benefits
Discretionary bonus

Company

Game Seven Agency

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We are a full-service creative and experiential agency that lives for sport, music, and culture.
dateFounded in 2010
location
Brooklyn, New York, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://www.gameseven.agency/

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage

Leadership Team

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Max Doblin
Director of Creative Strategy
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