Senior Director, Integrated Strategy & Storytelling

• Lead Strategic Portfolio Planning: Lead strategic planning across the large, complex e.l.f. Beauty account and act as a senior escalation point on planning quality, client confidence, and major strategic choices. Act as the senior strategic partner to Client Partners on major account planning, identifying media-driven growth opportunities that can expand client revenue, expand the portfolio, and deepen the agency relationship.

• Own the Narrative: Take complex data, media plans, and creative concepts and distill them into punchy, clear, and unignorable strategic recommendations.

• The "De-Clutter" Champion: Audit and elevate our client deliverables. You know that sometimes the best 50-slide deck is actually a 5-slide deck. You will ensure e.l.f. leaders never "get lost" in the content.

• Lead the Room: Serve as a trusted strategic partner to e.l.f. VPs and executives, delivering high-level perspectives on the beauty, consumer, and digital marketing landscape.

• Business Expansion: Co-lead major new business and portfolio expansion pitches in collaboration with Business Development and Client Partners, shaping the planning story, strategic narrative, and case for investment.

• Cultural Pulse: Keep a relentless, real-time pulse on internet culture, community shifts, and emerging digital trends. Ensure the agency and the client are acting on trends, not just reacting to them.

• Evangelize Internal Tool Suites: Lead and evangelize adoption and integration of the agency's proprietary planning suite and broader planning tools into strategic planning work, focusing on scalable solutions and stronger planning quality. Maintain expert fluency in the audience and planning product suite, including its roadmap, methodology, and data structures, acting as a key internal evangelist for its strategic application.

• Connect Advanced Measurement: Articulate the structure, strengths, and limitations of available planning tools and connect those insights to advanced measurement frameworks such as Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) and broader client business goals.

• Oversight of Advanced Testing: Oversee advanced data analysis approaches and planning-related testing, ensuring strategic hypotheses are clear and learnings are actionable, allowing the team to learn quickly from challenges and turn them into stronger practices.

• Total Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy: Connect the dots between brand moments and media execution. You will orchestrate cohesive communications plans that ensure campaigns hit the right communities at the right time.

• Commerce-First Mindset: Bridge the gap between brand awareness and modern social commerce. You understand the backend and frontend of platforms like TikTok Shop and modern commerce ecosystems.

• The Matrix Matrix: Masterfully navigate and advise on the nuance, overlap, and synergy between Owned vs. Earned vs. Paid media channels.

• Experience: 7-10+ years of digital strategy, communications planning, or brand strategy experience, ideally within a fast-paced agency or high-growth consumer brand (Beauty/CPG experience is a major plus).

• Cross-Channel Expertise: Strong experience across both linear and digital channels, with particular depth in video, social, and integrated full-funnel planning. Mastery across at least three marketing channels is preferred.

• The Editor's Eye: A proven track record of creating high-impact, concise presentation decks for C-suite and VP-level audiences.

• Deep Social & Creator Expertise: An intimate understanding of the creator economy, and community building.

• Platform Fluent: Direct experience or deep familiarity with social commerce platforms (e.g., TikTok Shop, Instagram Shopping, YouTube) and modern commerce platforms, including Amazon.

• Tool Fluency:Deep familiarity and a strong point of view on planning, insight, and competitive research tools such as Kantar, SimilarWeb, Pathmatics, MRI, eMarketer, and similar platforms, along with an understanding of how they shape strategic planning quality.

• Cultural Curiosity: You genuinely love pop culture, beauty trends, and digital subcultures. You are a natural trend-forecaster.

• Ruthlessly Concise: You value the client's time and know how to get to the point quickly.

• Community-Minded: You think about audiences as communities and fandoms, not just demographics.

• Confident & Candid: You have a clear point of view and aren't afraid to gently redirect a client or a team toward a better strategic path.

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