Associate Director

What You’ll Do

• Shape: Be a confident source of direction and a thought leader for both mindsets and craft among your client partners, strategy peers and the broader team to transform social experiences.
• Innovate: Open doors, hunt for opportunities to create transformative work and change. Be on the pulse of influencer marketing trends to ensure creative, maximum exposure
• Advocate: Pull senior stakeholders along with you to prove the power of social-first work and thinking.  
• Collaborate: Skillfully work as one integrated team with clients and SMEs across a network of high-performing WPP agencies and IAT partners to create impactful work.
• Build: Be relentless in your pursuit of helping our client have the best social media presence in the world through a focus on customer behavior and a passion for identifying what’s next.
• Connect: Oversee research, identification, and relationship management with influencers that help meet brand goals via influencer partnerships

What You’ll Need

• Be the “go-to” thought leader and expert in driving integration between social and brand strategy and engagement planning.
• Create and conduct influencer briefs for creatives and influencers  
• Proven ability to develop meaningful influencer relationships that result in authentic story-telling that drive impact
• Create communications that meet client objectives in the areas of social media strategy, digital platform and campaign development, research, content amplification and analytics
• Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, addressing issues thoughtfully and effectively
• Manage multiple campaigns from concept to completion by anticipating challenges, troubleshooting problems, proposing solutions, offering client counsel, overseeing quality, and ensuring the work delivers impact and value
• Create synergies between social and other disciplines: PR & Influencer, Customer Engagement & Commerce, Data & Analytics, and Media.
• Lead innovation and implementation of key strategic frameworks in social and brand strategy with the ability to develop end-to-end solutions with social at heart.
• Oversee quality and development of creative (concept) briefs and briefings as well as asset briefs to meet modern marketing needs to drive concept to content across experience seamlessly connecting social to the full ecosystem.
• Be the key player in new briefs representing the agency and the social expertise.
• Understands influencer search tools and platforms to assess the effectiveness of an influencer
• Be a key player in the development of social and influencer playbooks/toolkits for multiple clients  
• Build strong relationship with creative leaders and creative community.
• Become strong contributor in a global thought-leadership network.

How We’ll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.  

The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details.

Pay Range

$60,000—$140,000 USD

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.

Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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