Senior Director, Client Strategy (AI)

Location: Remote United States; must be based in an eligible US state. Not eligible for hiring in California, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, New York, or New Jersey. Travel up to 25%.

Salary: $175,000–$225,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a growth optimization agency helping mission-driven and high-growth organizations scale through data-driven experimentation, personalization, paid media, lifecycle, AEO/SEO, and full-funnel digital strategy.

What you will do

• Own client health, retention, expansion, renewals, and revenue performance across a portfolio.
• Lead Integrated Growth Strategists, strengthen VP, SVP, and C-suite relationships, and step into complex client strategy and delivery work.
• Build standards, playbooks, templates, and repeatable operating approaches for Integrated Growth Strategy.
• Partner with Product to integrate hirify.global technology and IP into engagements and bring client feedback into product development.
• Lead AI adoption across planning, analysis, insight generation, documentation, reporting, and performance storytelling, while moving repeatable work to AI workflows and the nearshore team.
• Hire, coach, and retain strategists; manage staffing, utilization, margin discipline, quality, accountability, and operating cadence.

Requirements

• 8+ years in client-facing strategy or services, including ownership of a client book with retention and revenue accountability and experience with VP-to-C-suite stakeholders.
• Direct management experience with a client-facing team of individual contributors, including hiring, developing, and growing people into larger roles.
• Agency or consultancy services experience.
• Hands-on, day-to-day use of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot, plus experience driving team adoption.
• Based in an eligible US state and able to travel up to 25%.
• Demonstrated success scaling an integrated capability.
• Operational fluency in staffing models, margin management, prioritization, governance, and delivery excellence.
• Recent hands-on client work without a large support layer.
• Effective written and verbal communication and decisive leadership.
• High ownership, high standards, low ego, calm decision-making, client-first problem-solving, coaching ability, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic systems thinking.

Nice to have

• Experience running delivery with offshore or nearshore teams.
• Pitch leadership or new business origination experience.
• Understanding of attribution, experimentation, and performance marketing.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work environment with autonomy, collaboration, and innovation.
• Work across eCommerce, fintech, nonprofit, and hospitality clients.
• Small, fast-moving firm where leaders participate in hands-on work.
• Opportunity to shape how agency work and the Integrated Growth Strategy team evolve with AI.
• Benefits may be available and will be discussed during the interview process.