Strategy Director

Grow (www.thisisgrow.com) creates industry-leading digital experiences, platforms, and activations for iconic global brands including Google, adidas, Diageo, and more. We’re obsessed with creating work that people truly love and welcome into their digital lives — unlocking new possibilities with brilliant ideas, purposeful innovation, and exceptional digital craft. Grow has been recognized by the industry’s leading publications and award shows, including having won 14 Cannes Lions, 40 FWAs, and 36 Webby nominations. We’ve also been recognized as Ad Age’s Small Agency of the Year Southeast and “Best Places to Work” from both Ad Age and Inc.

As our Strategy Director, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping industry-leading digital experiences, platforms, and activations.

We’re looking for a digital native who seamlessly blends brand creative strategy with user experience insights, demonstrated through a strong portfolio of relevant work. You should feel at home crafting smart, concise briefs, building inspiring strategy decks, and presenting them with confidence to clients and internal teams.

In this role, you’ll take a lead in strategy development—both hands-on and in an oversight capacity—across new business opportunities and active projects. Your mission will be to connect business, brand, and user needs to spark innovative ideas and impactful executions in the creative technology space.

You will bring a sharp perspective that elevates our strategic thinking to exceptional levels. Your knack for storytelling will inspire project teams and win over clients. Your passion for what’s possible at the intersection of creativity and technology will position you as a champion of innovation. By collaborating with cross-disciplinary leaders and identifying the big ideas that drive real impact, you will ensure our strategies translate into best-in-class work. And, your experience in nurturing talent will help grow our team’s skills and capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the strategy leader for assigned projects and new business opportunities, from pitch to delivery, in both hands-on and oversight capacity. Hold the highest bar for strategic excellence in our work product.

• Partner with clients and key agency stakeholders to define and prioritize business challenges, goals and target audience needs. Facilitate discussions, workshops, and collaborative brainstorms to gather client perspective and ensure buy-in. Confidently present strategy deliverables to clients.

• Develop clear, concise and compelling strategy briefs to inspire our teams to deliver their very best work — ideas and experiences that are uniquely creative, purposefully innovative, and truly valuable to their audiences.

• In partnership with our production team and other discipline leaders, define the scope and overall approach to strategy development for projects / client engagements.

• Alongside other discipline leaders, evaluate the team's work to ensure we are successfully delivering on the identified strategy and maximizing the potential of the opportunity. Share constructive feedback, pushes, and plus-ups.

• Manage our Senior UX Strategist — whose role is primarily centered around digital platform engagements, including research, site architecture, and content strategy — leading with both inspiration and accountability to ensure we do our best work and foster professional growth.

• Hire and manage right-fit freelancers or full-time strategy resources to meet project or agency growth needs.

• Establish and continually optimize processes and tools that support the strategy team’s work.

• Identify emerging trends and innovations in business, culture, digital marketing, and user experience, connecting those to our work and strategy discipline in relevant ways

• Contribute as a thought leader for the agency, both broadly and as it relates to specific work. Assist in the development of agency marketing new business and marketing materials.

Joining our team, you’ll find yourself amongst a talented, driven group of about 30 colleagues who inspire each other every day. We integrate strategy, creative, technology, and production to deliver the world’s best digital experiences. Our clients know us as a committed partner who creates category-defining work. Our team knows it’s possible because of the incredible culture we’ve built.

Requirements

We’re looking for someone with 7+ years of agency experience; a proven record of developing strategy for award-winning, best-in-class digital experiences; and experience managing direct reports in a strategy discipline.

Benefits

A wealth of company benefits include health, dental, matching 401k, parental leave, paid learning and development opportunities, and more. We offer flexible paid time off and uncapped sick time. In addition, we close for 18 paid holidays, including two full weeks in which we fully close operations—one at midsummer, and one at the winter holidays.

Location (NFK or Remote)

This is a full-time position that can be remote or based in our office in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. Remote employees are expected to travel to our office approximately once per quarter. Local employees are expected to work in the office three days per week and may work remotely for the other two. They are also welcome to work remotely for up to two months out of the year.

Grow offers paid relocation to the Norfolk-Virginia Beach region as well as temporary housing for selected candidates. Norfolk-Virginia Beach is an amazing coastal region that marries beach lifestyle with city culture. There’s thriving scenes for food, art, small businesses, and startups — while also being a wonderful place to raise a family. We’re part of a community of like-minded creators and innovators, including those in our headquarters space in Assembly (www.assemblynfk.com), a unique campus we helped spearhead. We also regularly put our talents toward building the city in which we want to live and work. Preference will be given to candidates who are open to working in our Norfolk headquarters.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Grow is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and actively works to foster a culture of belonging. We are committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, religion, ethnic or national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, parental status or any other legally protected characteristic.