Director, Creative Strategy

**must be willing to work hybrid in one of our local offices**

Director, Creative Strategy - Culture & Lifestyle Marketing

As Director, Creative Strategy, you are a cultural thought leader and idea generator. You're someone who lives at the intersection of culture, entertainment, and brand. You'll drive proactive strategic thinking on a marquee automotive account, getting our clients excited about creating culturally resonant moments that create real heat. You're not a strategy document writer but rather you're the ideas person with a strategic foundation; you can walk into a room, read the cultural moment, and pitch a concept that makes a CMO lean forward. You don't wait for a brief; instead, you bring the brief.

You're deeply plugged into culture — music, sports, social, entertainment, influencer ecosystems — and you know how to translate that fluency into proactive ideas that change the conversation. You understand how events and experiences intersect with social and digital, and you've seen firsthand how the right influencer at the right moment can redefine a KPI entirely.

You're not afraid to push back on clients, challenge assumptions, and advocate for the idea you believe in. You know when to float a half-formed concept and when to build the full rationale because you're great at both.

What you'll be doing

• Function as the cultural engine of the account by proactively surfacing ideas, talent/influencers, and moments before clients ask for them
• Build and sell concepts from the bones up: identify the opportunity, construct the rationale, and bring clients along for the ride
• Partner with executive-level clients, including CMO-level stakeholders, with the confidence to challenge, inspire, and move them toward bold decisions
• Stay deeply embedded in culture (social platforms, live events, emerging talent, brand partnerships) and translate that awareness into actionable opportunities
• Understand how experiential and live moments can be engineered for social and digital amplification, and build ideas with that intersection in mind
• Mentor and develop strategists on the team, modeling what great culturally-driven thinking looks like
• Roll up your sleeves as lead strategist on projects, on accounts, and across new business

If you can do all that, you have what it takes. It might also help if…

• 10+ years in marketing, agency-side experience (PR/social media/digital marketing/influencer marketing) strongly preferred - you know how to develop and sell ideas to clients
• A portfolio of concepts and campaigns is required: we want to see your ideas, understand your role in bringing them to life, and see the results they drove
• A cultural thought leader, not a category specialist. We're looking at talent with experience pitching and executing ideas to big name brands; deep auto experience is decidedly not the goal
• Someone who leads with ideas, not frameworks
• Fluent in the influencer ecosystem, social platforms, and how live experiences can be built to break through digitally
• From Intern to Chief Marketing officer, comfortable communicating with clients of all levels at an organization
• Exceptional communicator, presenter, and collaborator who believes the best idea wins, regardless of where it comes from

Last but not least, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion.

Jack Morton is an equal opportunity employer; we strongly value diversity at our companies. We do not discriminate on race, religion, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.