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Associate Director of Creative Strategy
- Publicis Groupe (New York, NY)
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Company description
We are a leading global technology consulting firm, empowering businesses to innovate,
transform, and thrive in the digital age. Our internal agency team is the creative heartbeat of our
brand, crafting world-class campaigns, immersive storytelling, and visually stunning
experiences that captivate our clients, employees, stakeholders and marketplace at large. We
are seeking an Associate Director of Creative Strategy with an uncanny ability to detect cultural
undercurrents before they surface—someone who can translate emerging signals into
meaningful creative directions that resonate both visually and conceptually across diverse
audiences.
Overview
As Associate Director of Creative Strategy, you'll be the cultural decoder who bridges strategic
relevance with creative vision for our company. Working in close partnership with our
taste-making Creative Director, you'll ensure our creative executions are not just visually
exceptional, but culturally resonant and strategically sound. This role demands someone who
can navigate the electric third rail of culture—identifying emerging signals, understanding
their significance, and translating them into meaningful creative approaches. You possess
not only sharp analytical skills, but also the rare intuition to recognize what will matter
tomorrow, paired with the strategic rigor to make these insights actionable for our creative
teams and valuable for our audience.
Responsibilities
What You'll Bring
+ The ideal candidate combines cultural fluency with strategic rigor:
+ Exceptional cultural radar—ability to detect meaningful signals amid cultural noise
+ Experience translating cultural insights into actionable creative strategies
+ Deep understanding of how aesthetics, language, and narrative evolve across differentcommunities
+ Strategic thinking that connects cultural relevance with business outcome
+ Talent for articulating complex cultural concepts in accessible ways for diversestakeholders
+ Background in strategic roles that interface between creative execution and businessobjectives
+ Ability to develop frameworks that guide creative development without constrainingcreative possibility
+ Natural curiosity that extends beyond typical industry research into unexpecteddomains
+ Comfort moving between high-concept thinking and practical application
+ A profound excitement and incorporation of the latest tools and technology into yourworkflow and process
Qualifications
What You'll Bring
+ The ideal candidate combines cultural fluency with strategic rigor:
+ Exceptional cultural radar—ability to detect meaningful signals amid cultural noise
+ Experience translating cultural insights into actionable creative strategies
+ Deep understanding of how aesthetics, language, and narrative evolve across differentcommunities
+ Strategic thinking that connects cultural relevance with business outcome
+ Talent for articulating complex cultural concepts in accessible ways for diversestakeholders
+ Background in strategic roles that interface between creative execution and businessobjectives
+ Ability to develop frameworks that guide creative development without constrainingcreative possibility
+ Natural curiosity that extends beyond typical industry research into unexpecteddomains
+ Comfort moving between high-concept thinking and practical application
+ A profound excitement and incorporation of the latest tools and technology into yourworkflow and process
Additional information
The Impact You'll Make
In this role, you'll ensure our creative work doesn't just look exceptional but resonates
meaningfully. While the Creative Director perfects craft and execution, you'll ensure these
beautiful vessels carry content that matters to our audiences.
You won't just shape creative briefs—you'll develop a cultural intelligence function that keeps
our organization perpetually relevant in a rapidly evolving landscape. Together with the Creative
Director, you'll create work that stands out not just for how it looks, b
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