Group Strategy Director

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Salary: $170,000–$190,000 USD per year

Company

OLIVER designs, builds, and runs bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands, working with more than 300 clients across 40+ countries as part of The Brandtech Group.

What you will do

• Lead the Strategy department, managing strategists and community managers while developing talent and a high-performance culture.
• Set social strategy direction for more than 20 beverage brands across US and Canada, including paid social, organic social, creator and influencer programs, and community management.
• Establish strategic quality standards, define KPIs, and use performance data and cultural insights to improve work continuously.
• Develop specialist practices for community management, creator and influencer strategy, measurement, and reporting.
• Lead senior client conversations, build long-term partnerships, and translate business objectives into effective strategy.
• Partner with the Leadership Team on planning, resourcing, new business, growth, and responsible AI adoption.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in social and cultural strategy within agency or in-house brand settings.
• Strong brand and communications strategy foundations, with deep social expertise across paid, organic, creator, influencer, and 360 campaigns.
• Proven experience leading and developing strategy teams across complex, multi-brand portfolios.
• Experience presenting to and influencing brand directors, CMOs, and senior client stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of performance data, research, KPI development, and measurement-led improvement.
• Demonstrated judgment in integrating Gen AI tools while protecting strategic quality, brand authenticity, and community trust.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, outcome-focused leadership culture with a commitment to developing talent.
• Values centered on ambition, imagination, inspiration, continuous learning, and results.
• Active commitment to inclusion, anti-racism, equal opportunity, and environmental sustainability.
• AI supports operational efficiency and consistency but is not used for automated candidate selection or decision-making.