Senior Strategy Director

New York, United States | Strategy | Full-time | Partially remote

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About RSR

We’re Ready Set Rocket (Now a Sia Partners Company), a fully integrated digital agency driving business transformation. A consultancy at heart, we help our clients navigate the fast-paced world of technology disruption and changing consumer behaviors. We blend data, design, and media with conceptual and emotional storytelling to drive our client’s initiatives.

We’re huge on collaboratively overcoming challenges by supporting each other every step of the way. We’re all about pushing boundaries, learning from mistakes, and using every project as a chance to evolve and find fulfillment in the work. Big ideas, big talent, big impact.

What RSR Offers

Everyone deserves an environment where they can thrive. Ready Set Rocket offers a competitive package of benefits & perks including:

    • Hybrid Workplace
    • Health Benefits: Medical, Vision & Dental Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • 401k Retirement Plan & Matching
    • Fitness or Mental Wellness Reimbursement
    • Work from Home Reimbursement
    • Professional Development Subsidy
    • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
    • Paid Family Leave Policy

Your Impact

As the Senior Strategy Director, you will be the driving force behind the strategic vision for our clients, shaping and guiding innovative marketing strategies that unlock growth and elevate their brand. Your ability to synthesize complex, open-ended challenges into clear, actionable, and forward-thinking strategies will align internal teams and empower clients to achieve transformative outcomes. You will lead the development of enterprise-level content strategies, information architectures, and digital media plans that set new standards for excellence.

  • Insightful Leadership: You’ll be the key architect of strategic direction, propelling business growth across diverse brands, and inspiring both clients and teams with your vision.
  • Strategic Thinking: Your deep understanding of client business needs enables you to design comprehensive strategies that meet objectives, KPIs, and evolve brand positioning. You’ll deliver strategy across brand, customer experience, and innovation lanes—from concept to execution.
  • Creative Excellence: As a trusted advisor, you’ll partner closely with creative teams, ensuring that all work aligns with strategic goals, elevates the brand, and meets the highest standards of excellence.
  • Executional Precision: You’ll own the strategic deliverables, executing with independence, discipline, and accuracy. Your work will be timely, aligned with client briefs, and meticulously crafted to deliver outstanding results.

What Success Looks Like

  • Strategic Alignment & Momentum: Your leadership ensures projects move forward with precision and purpose. Teams and clients are aligned, and you consistently transform uncertainty into clear, actionable strategies that uncover new opportunities and drive measurable success.
  • Innovative Solutions & Long-Term Impact: Through thorough market research and consumer insight analysis, you’ll stay ahead of media trends and emerging opportunities, translating marketing objectives into high-impact media plans. Leveraging data-driven insights, you’ll optimize global media performance, ensuring every investment maximizes ROI and delivers on campaign goals.
  • Client & Team Empowerment: Your strategic guidance will empower teams to navigate complexity with confidence, delivering innovative, high-performing work while ensuring clients feel supported and confident in your leadership.

 

What You Bring to the Table

  • 7+ years of agency experience with a focus on digital, media, and content strategy
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
  • Exceptional written communication and storytelling skills
  • Expertise in crafting data-driven strategies that deliver business impact
  • Confidence in owning high-stakes deliverables and presenting to senior stakeholders
  • Highly organized with a meticulous attention to detail
  • A collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset with a passion for team success

At the discretion of RSR leadership, this job description is subject to change based on the evolving needs expected of the role and the changing demands of the business over time.

Workplace Culture

Hybrid: We believe in the best of both worlds! As part of our hybrid work culture, you'll have the chance to collaborate with our team in our vibrant Wall Street NYC office a few times a week. 

Flexible: This role is most rewarding for those who master their own time. We're not your typical 9-5 punch-in, punch-out job. We thrive in the ebb and flow to accommodate the evolving dynamics of our work. If you can embrace the freedom to work autonomously while adapting to the changing demands of our project life cycles, this is the right place for you.

Compensation

Compensation is determined by years of experience and proven previous success in this role, level of expertise in the skills needed to perform this role at the highest level and cost of living in your area of residency. Salary Range: $180,000-$200,000

EEO Statement

At RSR we are conspiring to design a better world and we believe this goal can only be advanced by a team that is committed to diversity, represents different cultures, perspectives and backgrounds and prioritizes inclusivity as a pilar of our company culture.

RSR is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.