Daniel J. Edelman Holdings
Vice President, Strategy Director (Finance)
We are seeking a Vice President, Strategy Director based in Seattle, Portland or Los Angeles for the global Microsoft account--with a particular focus on Xbox.
Assembly Media Inc. is a subsidiary of Daniel J. Edelman Holdings, Inc. Built to thrive amid the full complexity of today's modern marketing, Edelman is the world's largest independent communications agency. We help some of the world's most famous companies evolve, promote, and protect their brands.
At Assembly, we help Microsoft bring to life its mission: to help every person on the planet achieve more. We are experts in the products and offerings and tasked with helping them think beyond the product roadmap to find the best way to bring their unique stories to broad audiences. Our work is designed to capture the attention of the American media landscape, and the ability to uncover a cultural tension is at the heart of our briefs.
Our growing team of strategists are the minds that uncovered the insights that led to some of 2020's most talked about campaigns, from realizing that a popular ice cream truck jingle had racist roots then writing a new one with RZA from Wu-Tang Clan , to discovering that U.S. fathers don't have access to paid paternity leave then starting a national movement towards a federal paid leave policy . Now we need a VP, Strategy Director with a finely tuned cultural radar to help discover more of those cultural tensions that make the creative team reach for their pencils.
We know you're thinking, "isn't Edelman a PR company?" Sure, public relations is part of who we are, but in recent years we've grown our surrounding departments and evolved into a next generation kind of agency that sits at the intersection of public relations and advertising. We like to call our job, "planning at the speed of PR" because we generate attention-grabbing ideas while moving much faster than a traditional agency (think weeks, not months). So, if you're quick on your feet, and ready to see your strategy become the kind of reality that ends up on the front page of Reddit, the pages of NYTimes, in Shaq's Twitter feed, and in the award shows, we do that on a regular basis. And for what it's worth, in person we're WAY more humble.
The VP, Strategy Director needs to be a self-starter, a creative problem solver for our clients that can craft a strategy and make it sing, from initial brief to execution. We move fast, so we need someone who can work quickly and collaboratively, at times taking minimal information and filling in the gaps with insight and structure. From initial insight to final decks, we need someone who can craft a strategy into a persuasive story that inspires creative teams and excites clients. We like to nerd out and get our hands dirty and expect you to bring your full strategic arsenal to do the same.
As a VP, Strategy Director, we will need you to lead the day-to-day strategy on key brands and excel at the following responsibilities:
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Assembly was founded in 2014 as a dedicated Microsoft agency within Edelman, the largest independently owned public relations company in the world. Within Assembly, we have converged the best of Edelman to service Microsoft, providing comprehensive communications solutions across public relations, social media and community management, audience strategy, measurement, internal executive communications and creative. Assembly and Microsoft have enjoyed a 25+ year partnership together and we support Microsoft business in 14 countries across the world. We are the lead social agency for some of Microsoft's largest channels, including @microsoft brand social, @microsoftlearn and @msPartner. In 2019, Edelman was recognized by AdAge as one of the top 10 creativity companies in the U.S., as well as awarded as a 2019 Best Place to Work.
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