Senior Director, Strategy - Brand & Creative

The posting, as Monks wrote it

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About the Role

As a Senior Director, Strategy – Brand & Creative , you'll lead our Brand Strategy discipline within this team. We're looking for someone who is passionate about building breakthrough brands, developing bold strategic thinking, and creating impactful work that moves businesses and culture forward.

TL;DR – You've already done this for global brands on some of the world's biggest stages. You've been in the room when major decisions are made and know how to earn your seat there. You care more about the work being great than being right. You know the difference between a brand truth and a brand claim—and can teach others. You've built brand strategy that doesn't stop at the brief. You know how great brand platforms translate into integrated campaigns, digital experiences, product launches, and customer touch-points. Most importantly, you're excited by the opportunity to lead and shape the Brand Strategy discipline within a larger, highly collaborative, AI-forward strategy organization.

Responsibilities

Global Brand Positioning: Lead development of foundational brand strategy, architecture, and positioning for this industry-defining tech giant across its full product portfolio. Make sure the brand stays consistent, clear and relevant whether it's showing up in São Paulo, Seoul, or San Francisco.

High-Stakes Creative Strategy: Drive the strategic vision for highly-visible campaigns (e.g. Super Bowl spots, Olympics moments, global product launches, major repositionings). You've been in these rooms before and you know how to lead when the stakes are high.

Creative Partnership: Be a trusted strategic partner to our Group Creative Directors. Write briefs that are provocative and inspiring, and stay deeply engaged throughout the creative process—from initial thinking through final execution. Thrive in a highly collaborative, iterative environment where strategies evolve through close partnership with creative teams and clients.

Cultural Intelligence: Keep a genuine pulse on where culture is moving: what people care about, what's shifting, what's coming. Bring that fluency into the work before clients ask for it.

Team Leadership & Development: Lead and mentor a team of three brand strategists. Foster an environment where rigorous thinking, creative ambition, collaboration, and curiosity thrive together. Help shape and elevate the Brand Strategy discipline within our broader strategy organization.

Client Advisory & Business Growth

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Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery—taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.

This commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.