Strategy Director

🕒 June 26

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧐 Strategy

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Instrument

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201 - 500 employees

Instrument is a values-driven, integrated digital agency working virtually together across the US.Follow us on social media @instrument.

📋 Description

• Serve as the senior strategic lead across multiple client engagements and portfolios simultaneously. • Ensure strategic rigor, clarity, and coherence across projects, from discovery through delivery. • Oversee and guide strategists and teams through ambiguity and complexity by applying sound judgment while maintaining quality standards across the work. • Bring expert-level fluency in UX and brand strategy for digital experiences. • Balance and integrate brand thinking with detailed UX; comfortable operating across both with equal rigor. • Apply experience strategy to complex, multi-touchpoint engagements involving brand, content, and digital product. • Actively contribute to 2-3 pitches at a time in collaboration with creative, design, and account disciplines. • Get up to speed quickly on new categories and client contexts with minimal ramp time. • Bring a sharp, distinctive strategic POV to pitch situations; confident presenting to senior and executive stakeholders. • Partner with discipline and studio leadership to identify and pursue new business opportunities. • Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior and executive-level client stakeholders. • Partner with Client Executive Directors and account leadership to identify and grow new opportunities. • Present strategic direction and recommendations with confidence, credibility, and influence. • Balance client advocacy with business objectives and delivery realities. • Hire, manage, and develop strategists across levels, building a strong and resilient team. • Define, codify, and implement clear, repeatable strategic standards and frameworks that elevate quality, improve efficiency, and create consistency across engagements and teams. • Contribute to internal learning, workshops, and knowledge sharing that scale best practices across the discipline. • Continuously evolve the discipline by identifying gaps, raising the bar for quality, and ensuring standards keep pace with the work and market within the assigned Studio. • Set clear expectations for performance, growth, and accountability, and hold leaders accountable for outcomes. • Foster a culture of strategic excellence, collaboration, and inclusion. • Ensure team health, resourcing balance, and sustainable delivery. • Support team structure and scoping needs for net-new projects.

🎯 Requirements

• You’ve led strategy at a senior level and are comfortable operating across multiple projects, teams, or accounts—balancing depth with breadth. • You bring a broad set of strategy skills across brand, digital, product, content, and marketing, with deeper expertise in at least a few of these areas. • You’re skilled at connecting insights to action—using research, synthesis, and storytelling to shape clear, compelling strategic direction. • You’re an effective facilitator and communicator, able to lead workshops, guide conversations, and influence senior stakeholders with confidence and clarity. • You have experience building and leading teams—setting expectations, developing talent, and creating a strong, collaborative culture. • You understand how to balance client needs, business goals, and delivery realities—making decisions that are both ambitious and practical. • You’re curious about emerging tools and technologies, and you apply sound judgment about how they can meaningfully improve the work.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible, Hybrid Work Environment • Great Compensation with Annual Reviews (Learn more about our Pay Philosophy) • 401(k) Matching with Immediate Vesting • Robust Medical, Vision, and Accident Insurance • Generous Paid Holidays and unlimited PTO • Monthly Wellbeing Stipend • Career Management and Leadership Training