Director, Strategy and Insights Culver City, CA

Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: Culver City
Posted on: March 1, 2025

Job Description:

Wild Card Creative Group is a Worldbuilding Agency focused on ONE mission: the advancement of storytelling.

• We have a content innovation studio that uses insights to identify an audience & how to immerse them into a world. These are then turned stories into participation-first content and experiences (social campaigns, original content, experiential, etc.).
• We create the opening line (trailer, a/v assets), the moment that invites the audience into the story.Wild Card is looking for a dynamic, social-first Strategy & Insights Director to lead a team of strategists in shaping impactful creative strategies that drive real business results. This role spans a diverse portfolio of entertainment and brand clients, overseeing both project-based and AOR engagements.This role will both lead a team of thinkers and doers and is a thinker and a doer.
  • The Director of Strategy position plays a pivotal role across our client roster as a lead driver of direction for campaigns and is a revenue driver for their division.
  • The ideal candidate will have a natural love for all things strategy and embrace the process of bringing campaigns to life by playing a key role from inception to execution.
  • Passionate about leading a team and building a business with data-informed insights that birth a creative campaign that delivers for our clients.Job Responsibilities
    • Set the strategic plan for creative campaigns and ensure ideas are delivering our clients goals.
    • Work across client categories including entertainment, alcohol/beer, CPG, tech, hospitality, travel, and more.
    • Strong client communication skills to effectively build relationships/consensus and sell through projects while instilling confidence.
    • Ensure media, messaging, creative, and measurement is cohesively aligned to achieve business objectives.
    • Work closely with account directors, producers, and creative leads.
    • Deep understanding of end-to-end multi-platform marketing campaigns including strategic direction, execution, and metrics.
    • A results-driven thinker who can distill large-scale insights into actionable creative execution.
    • Experience working closely with and deep knowledge of best practices on social channels including Meta Platforms, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter/X, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and Reddit.
    • Understanding of the influencer marketing space from overarching strategy through metric-driven execution.
    • Analytical thinker with:
    • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel (i.e. spreadsheet formatting, pivot tables, vlookups) and Google Suite.
    • Expertise in research tools such as YouGov, GWI, Helixa, and Simmons.
    • Experience constructing Boolean queries and using social listening tools including Sprout and other industry standards.
    • Work collaboratively with internal teams to manage content strategy, quality of work, and efficiencies for both small-scale and large-scale projects.
    • Ensure our work feels socially native and relevant, staying up to speed and inspiring internal and external teams with their understanding of social trends and cultural conversations.Required Skills
      • 8+ years of deep strategy and insights experience.
      • Experience developing creative and campaign strategies for entertainment properties and a general passion for the entertainment industry.
      • Highly collaborative team leader with a compassionate bias for action.
      • Player/Coach who gets things done, leads by example, and elevates their team's skills.
      • Understands and embraces strategy as a profit center and is a revenue driver growing existing partnerships and passionate about pitching.
      • Experience providing strategic direction for 360 and social-led campaigns for both entertainment and brand clients.
      • 3+ years of experience creating marketing/advertising campaigns from developing vision and the message platform to overseeing production on time and within budget.
      • Proven track record of successfully selling strategy assignments including but not limited to: audience segmentation, social playbooks, brand/content strategy, ethnographies, competitive audits, message hierarchy, and brand architecture.Pay Range$150,000 - $180,000.Pay will be commensurate with the unique experience, skills, and qualifications that the candidate brings to the position.Disclosures:In order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position. From time to time you may be asked to work on special projects or to assist with other work. Your cooperation and assistance in performing such additional work is expected. Wild Card is proud to employ extraordinary talent across all genders, races, nationalities, religions, ages, abilities and sexual preferences. We strive to encourage and support all of our current and prospective employees to achieve their highest potential. No job applicant will receive less favorable treatment on any basis when applying for a career with our team.Our company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate's eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). The information provided on the Form I-9 is compared to the records contained in the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. This helps employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees.Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Apply for this job* indicates a required fieldFirst Name *Last Name *Email *Phone *Resume/CV *Enter manuallyAccepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtfLinkedIn ProfileAre you legally authorized to work in the United States? * Select...Will you now, or in the future, require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g. H-1B visa status)? * Select...Where are you located? *We are based in Culver City, CA and this is a hybrid role. Are you local and comfortable commuting to this job's location at least 2x a week? *What is your desired compensation? *How many years of experience do you have in entertainment and social media? *Do you have at least 8 years experience in deep strategy and insights? Please elaborate. *Do you have experience developing creative and campaign strategies for entertainment properties? * Select...Do you have experience managing a team? If so, how large is/was your team? *If offered the position, how soon can you start? *
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