Lead and grow the Creative Strategy function, defining vision, frameworks, and operating models. Partner with senior customers and cross-functional teams to solve business challenges using insight-driven, AI-enabled strategic thinking. Ensure high-quality strategy across major engagements, drive customer growth, and represent Superside externally.
Superside is hiring a Director of Creative Strategy to lead and evolve our Strategy function. You'll shape how strategy drives creative excellence across the business, leading a team of strategists while partnering with executive customers and internal leaders to solve complex business challenges through insight-driven creativity.
You'll define the future of strategy at Superside, building scalable frameworks, growing strategic talent, and ensuring strategy becomes a key driver of customer success, creative quality, and commercial growth.
What You'll Do
- Lead, mentor, and develop the Creative Strategy team, fostering high performance and continuous growth.
- Define the vision, standards, and operating model for Strategy across Superside.
- Partner with senior customer stakeholders to solve complex business challenges and strengthen long-term relationships.
- Guide strategic development across major customer engagements, ensuring consistently high-quality thinking.
- Build frameworks, methodologies, and best practices that scale strategic excellence across the organization.
- Partner with Creative, Marketing, Sales, Product, and Account teams to shape integrated customer solutions.
- Champion AI-powered ways of working that improve research, strategic thinking, and creative development.
- Identify opportunities to expand strategic services, contributing to customer growth and new business.
- Use market intelligence, customer insights, and performance data to shape strategic priorities and innovation.
- Represent the Strategy function internally and externally, helping position Superside as a leader in AI-powered creative strategy.
What You'll Need To Succeed
- 8+ years of experience in strategy within creative, advertising, branding, or digital agencies.
- Proven experience leading and developing high-performing strategy teams.
- Strong track record advising senior stakeholders and executive customers.
- Deep expertise in brand strategy, digital marketing, creative effectiveness, and customer insights.
- Experience building strategic frameworks, methodologies, and scalable ways of working.
- Commercial mindset with experience contributing to customer growth, business development, or strategic consulting.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable business and creative strategies.
- Experience integrating AI into strategic research, planning, and creative development.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to influence cross-functional leaders and drive strategic alignment across the business.
Why Join us?
Superside's vision is to create equal opportunities globally by accelerating the world’s transition to online work. With that in mind, we're building a fully remote company that attracts people where they are.
Remote-first. Customer-led.
Remote isn’t just a perk; it’s how we deliver better for customers. We are fully committing to our customers by hiring top talent and collaborating seamlessly across time zones.
Global team, local impact.
Join a community of 60+ nationalities working across time zones, cultures, and disciplines, all aligned on doing great work for great brands.
High performance, low ego.
Work in a fast-paced, high-trust environment where feedback is direct, growth is constant, and kindness leads collaboration.
Impact meets opportunity.
We’re in the sweet spot — big enough to be stable, small enough for you to shape what’s next. Your ideas will matter here.
Grow fast. Lead well.
You’ll gain mentorship, take on real responsibility, and grow your career while helping us disrupt a global industry.
About Superside
Superside is the leading AI-powered creative company that quickly and cost-effectively enhances in-house functions. We help over 500 ambitious brands get great creative concepts done at scale. Built to be an extension
of in-house teams, we unbottleneck marketing and creative teams so they can move faster and drive more reliable creative performance.
Superside is a fully remote company with over 700 team members working across 60+ countries and 13 timezones.
Learn more at superside.com
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We’re an equal-opportunity company. All applicants will be considered regardless of ethnicity, appearance, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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