Director of Creative Strategy

Superside
Worldwide Remote
Remote

Who this role is best for

Best suited to seasoned strategists with a background in creative or digital agencies working in a remote-first, global environment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8+ years of agency strategy experience and a track record of leading teams
    — “8+ years of experience in strategy within creative, advertising, branding, or digital agencies.”
  • Individuals who have advised senior stakeholders and built scalable strategic frameworks
    — “Proven experience leading and developing high-performing strategy teams.”
  • Professionals with a strong background in AI integration and strategic thinking
    — “Experience integrating AI into strategic research, planning, and creative development.”

Things to consider

  • Remote-first work arrangement may require strong self-management and asynchronous communication skills
    — “Remote isn’t just a perk; it’s how we deliver better for customers.”
  • The role demands influencing cross-functional teams and maintaining strategic alignment
    — “Ability to influence cross-functional leaders and drive strategic alignment across the business.”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize your experience in building scalable frameworks for strategy delivery
    — “Experience building strategic frameworks, methodologies, and scalable ways of working.”
  • Highlight your ability to translate data into creative and business strategies
    — “Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable business and creative strategies.”
  • Showcase your leadership in AI-powered creative strategy and its impact on client success
    — “Champion AI-powered ways of working that improve research, strategic thinking, and creative development.”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Executive

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What success looks like

  • Lead and evolve the Strategy function
  • Define the vision for Strategy
Typical background
8+ years of experience in strategy within creative, advertising, branding, or digital agencies

Skills & requirements

Required

Creative StrategyTeam LeadershipCustomer SuccessStrategic DevelopmentAi-powered Creative Strategy

Preferred

Brand StrategyDigital MarketingCustomer Insights

Stack & domain

Creative StrategyAi-powered Ways Of WorkingStrategic FrameworksCustomer InsightsCommercial GrowthLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingCreativeAdvertisingBrandingDigital Agencies

About the role

Original posting from Superside via Lever

Superside is hiring a Director of Creative Strategy to lead and evolve our Strategy function. You'll shape how strategy drives creative excellence across the business, leading a team of strategists while partnering with executive customers and internal leaders to solve complex business challenges through insight-driven creativity.

You'll define the future of strategy at Superside, building scalable frameworks, growing strategic talent, and ensuring strategy becomes a key driver of customer success, creative quality, and commercial growth.

What You'll Do:

  • Lead, mentor, and develop the Creative Strategy team, fostering high performance and continuous growth.
  • Define the vision, standards, and operating model for Strategy across Superside.
  • Partner with senior customer stakeholders to solve complex business challenges and strengthen long-term relationships.
  • Guide strategic development across major customer engagements, ensuring consistently high-quality thinking.
  • Build frameworks, methodologies, and best practices that scale strategic excellence across the organization.
  • Partner with Creative, Marketing, Sales, Product, and Account teams to shape integrated customer solutions.
  • Champion AI-powered ways of working that improve research, strategic thinking, and creative development.
  • Identify opportunities to expand strategic services, contributing to customer growth and new business.
  • Use market intelligence, customer insights, and performance data to shape strategic priorities and innovation.
  • Represent the Strategy function internally and externally, helping position Superside as a leader in AI-powered creative strategy.

What You'll Need To Succeed:

  • 8+ years of experience in strategy within creative, advertising, branding, or digital agencies.
  • Proven experience leading and developing high-performing strategy teams.
  • Strong track record advising senior stakeholders and executive customers.
  • Deep expertise in brand strategy, digital marketing, creative effectiveness, and customer insights.
  • Experience building strategic frameworks, methodologies, and scalable ways of working.
  • Commercial mindset with experience contributing to customer growth, business development, or strategic consulting.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable business and creative strategies.
  • Experience integrating AI into strategic research, planning, and creative development.
  • Exceptional communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to influence cross-functional leaders and drive strategic alignment across the business.

Why Join us?

Superside's vision is to create equal opportunities globally by accelerating the world’s transition to online work. With that in mind, we're building a fully remote company that attracts people where they are.

Remote-first. Customer-led.

Remote isn’t just a perk; it’s how we deliver better for customers. We are fully committing to our customers by hiring top talent and collaborating seamlessly across time zones.

Global team, local impact.

Join a community of 60+ nationalities working across time zones, cultures, and disciplines, all aligned on doing great work for great brands.

High performance, low ego.

Work in a fast-paced, high-trust environment where feedback is direct, growth is constant, and kindness leads collaboration.

Impact meets opportunity.

We’re in the sweet spot — big enough to be stable, small enough for you to shape what’s next. Your ideas will matter here.

Grow fast. Lead well.

You’ll gain mentorship, take on real responsibility, and grow your career while helping us disrupt a global industry.

About Superside

Superside is the leading AI-powered creative company that quickly and cost-effectively enhances in-house functions. We help over 500 ambitious brands get great creative concepts done at scale. Built to be an extension 

of in-house teams, we unbottleneck marketing and creative teams so they can move faster and drive more reliable creative performance. 

Superside is a fully remote company with over 700 team members working across 60+ countries and 13 timezones.

Learn more at superside.com

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We’re an equal-opportunity company. All applicants will be considered regardless of ethnicity, appearance, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Source: Superside careers (Lever)

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