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Director, Strategy & Insights Curiosity is seeking a seasoned, collaborative and communicative Director of Strategy & Insights. We're looking for someone eager to take the next step in their planning career, who brings with them a well-developed strategic toolkit, rich research rigor including leading qual and quant research, digital measurement and analytics, killer planning chops including social platform experience, creative intuition that can bring the voice of reason to inform client choices as well as having expertly honed their people and client management skills. This is a critically important position for our agency, as this person will bring strategic insight and inspiration to our creative teams, as well a our clients' brands and businesses. This person reports into the VP of Strategy with direct responsibility for a client business or portfolio. This role requires expertly hones people and client management skills, as they will partner with Curiosity leaders across Account, Creative, Media and Production teams. Likely, you'll be asked to serve as a strategic lead across other integrated partner agencies, too. How Will I Know? You've got 10+ years of experience as an agency strategist or in a client-side brand planning team and have a portfolio that demonstrates your mastery of strategic planning skills **A significant portion of your career has been spent within an agency environment (required) Expert-level fluency across many languages of strategic planning, such as brand strategy, account planning, creative strategy, product marketing, innovation, social strategy, communications planning, content strategy, digital strategy, or multicultural marketing You have personally led projects that created actionable audience, cultural, market or white space opportunities that have made business and cultural impact You pride yourself on being a great storyteller, presenter, facilitator, moderator and synthesizer and enjoy mentoring others on these skillsets as well You've fostered strong client relationships and demonstrated an innate ability to understand the complexities of your clients' businesses-so much so that you've got former senior (VP-level or higher) marketing clients willing to sing your praises You've got a demonstrated fluency in understanding clients' approach to research, including the metrics they've prioritized and the methodologies and partners they've historically adopted as well as knowledge of other alternatives in your back pocket to efficiently help provide alternative solutions when needs arise Ambiguity or complexity doesn't scare you; you've got a strong ability to be efficient, resourceful and gather, analyze and synthesize information and lead others to make informed decisions You collaboratively can build clear, compelling, and concise creative briefs that inspire great work... in your sleep You've proven yourself to be a trusted, effective, and imaginative leader; you've managed team members directly and inspired them to achieve their best work You've got a Bachelor's degree in a relevant area of study, including advertising, public relations, journalism, sociology, anthropology, or psychology; preference given to candidates with Master's or other advanced degrees, or a demonstrated academic curiosity through other coursework You're interested in joining an independent creative boutique that has an entrepreneurial start up spirit and has twice been recognized as part of AdAge's Small Agency of the Year list and was recently named to Outside Magazine's Best Places to Work What You'll Do: Provide leadership and management for the Curiosity Strategy offering to multiple clients or portfolio Immediately develop deep client relationships, serving as a virtual extension of their marketing teams; more importantly, be the first person from whom our client partners seek out