Purple Strategies · 1 week ago
Client Lead (Senior Director)
Alexandria, VA or Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
15+ years expPurple Strategies is a corporate reputation and strategy firm that helps organizations address their toughest challenges. The Senior Director will provide executive-level strategic oversight across major client portfolios, lead complex initiatives, and cultivate deep client relationships to ensure sustained trust and collaboration.
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Responsibilities
Provide executive oversight on strategic communications and stakeholder engagement programs
Lead and develop comprehensive strategies addressing complex, multi-dimensional client challenges
Cultivate deep client relationships at the executive level, ensuring sustained trust and collaboration, and creating opportunity for organic growth
Provides strategic oversight and directly contributes to the conceptualization and production of high-impact proposals that clearly communicate complex strategies and innovative campaign approaches
Guides and reviews strategy decks, ensuring that insights, research, and tactical recommendations are effectively synthesized and communicated to senior client audiences
Sets standards and benchmarks and establishes what success looks like for Purple and the client in the development of compelling digital content, ranging from site content and social campaigns to sophisticated advocacy calls to action and video assets
Oversees the development of strategic executive communications, including sophisticated talking points, thought leadership materials, op-eds, and speeches, tailored to the voice and strategic priorities of senior-level clients and organizational leadership
Drives consistency, creativity, and strategic precision across a wide array of deliverables, elevating the quality and effectiveness of internal and external strategic communications outputs
Mentor and develop colleagues and team members, promoting strategic vision and leadership capabilities while supporting firm leadership in attracting, developing and retaining top talent
Identify and capitalize on opportunities for firm growth with existing and new clients
Serve as key contributor to organizational strategy and internal thought leadership (marketing), as well as business development
Qualification
Required
15+ years of senior experience in consulting, public affairs, or communications
Proven leadership of complex, high-stakes strategic engagements
Exceptional client management, strategic thinking, and leadership abilities
Demonstrated success in managing and leading high performing teams that are innovative, collaborative and strive for continuous improvement
Exceptional creative thinker who embraces big ideas and has a particular aptitude in distinguishing root challenges from symptoms and in synthesizing a wide variety of information
Familiarity with all aspects of integrated communications campaigns, from initiation, planning and activation, to measurement and reporting
Preferred
Advanced degree preferred, with a minimum of a bachelor's degree required
Experience in political campaigns or state/federal government, strongly preferred
Company
Purple Strategies
Purple Strategies is a strategy firm that specializes in political campaigns.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Steve McMahon
Co-Founder and CEO
Ashley Gibaldi
Partner
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