Senior Vice President, Creative Strategy

About the role

The SVP, Creative Strategy is a senior-level creative strategy role focused on delivering exceptional, insight-driven creative work for Highwire's clients. This is a 6-month contract engagement.

Responsibilities

• Client Creative Strategy
• Serve as the senior creative strategy lead across a portfolio of client accounts, developing insight-driven creative strategies that align with client business objectives and communications goals.
• Translate client briefs, audience insights, and market research into clear, compelling creative platforms that guide campaign development.
• Lead creative strategy sessions with clients, presenting ideas and recommendations with confidence and clarity.
• Act as a trusted creative partner to senior client stakeholders, providing strategic counsel that strengthens relationships and elevates the quality of the work.
• Ensure creative strategies are grounded in data and audience understanding, while leaving meaningful room for originality and creative ambition.
• Campaign Development & Execution
• Lead the conceptual development of integrated campaigns across paid, earned, shared, and owned channels — from initial brief through to final delivery.
• Work closely with Highwire's creative, digital, content, and communications teams to bring campaign ideas to life cohesively and consistently across all touchpoints.
• Direct the development of creative deliverables — including visual concepts, messaging frameworks, campaign narratives, and content — ensuring every output meets the highest standard of quality.
• Oversee multiple campaign workstreams simultaneously, maintaining creative integrity and strategic alignment across all accounts.
• Ensure all work delivered to clients is polished, on-brief, and ready to perform — with zero tolerance for errors or misalignment.
• New Business & Pitch Support
• Develop and present creative strategy concepts for new business pitches, crafting ideas that are bold, insight-led, and clearly differentiated.
• Collaborate closely with Highwire's strategy and business development teams to ensure pitch creative is tightly aligned with prospective client goals and business context.
• Bring a senior, compelling voice to pitch presentations — articulating a clear creative vision that inspires confidence and wins business.
• Creative Execution Across Accounts
• Provide senior-level creative direction and feedback on work across the agency's client portfolio throughout the engagement.
• Partner with account leads to understand client priorities and ensure creative strategy is aligned with broader campaign and communications planning.
• Bring fresh thinking, cultural awareness, and creative ambition to every brief — challenging the team to reach for ideas that are genuinely original and impactful.
• Stay attuned to trends across industries, platforms, and culture, applying relevant insights to client work in meaningful and timely ways.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of creative strategy experience, with significant time in senior creative roles within a top-tier agency or in-house environment.
• An exceptional portfolio demonstrating strategic, cross-channel creative thinking with proven business impact across multiple industries.
• Deep experience developing and presenting creative strategy to senior and C-suite client stakeholders.
• Strong conceptual skills with the ability to generate bold, original ideas rooted in insight and strategy.
• Proven track record of leading integrated, multi-channel campaign development from concept through execution.
• Fluency across digital, social, content, and brand creative — with a clear understanding of how each channel plays a role in a connected campaign.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to articulate creative vision to both creative and non-creative audiences.
• Experience supporting new business pitches, from concept development through to live presentation.
• A genuine, active commitment to DIBs — ensuring creative work is inclusive, culturally resonant, and representative of diverse audiences.
• Ability to hit the ground running, deliver immediate value, and operate with confidence across multiple accounts in a fast-paced agency environment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with merit-based opportunities for growth
• Flexible hybrid work model tailored to your schedule and lifestyle
• Generous vacation policy, including extended summer and winter breaks
• Early log-off on Fridays through our Empower Hours program
• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus FSA options
• Paid parental leave benefits
• Commuter benefits
• Annual Growth Mindset stipend for books, events, or learning experiences
• Monthly technology reimbursement
• Wellness benefit program for mental and physical health
• 501c3 donation matching program
• Mentorship and ongoing professional development opportunities
• Quarterly Highwire events and team gatherings
• Dog-friendly office environment
• A supportive, inclusive, and collaborative workplace where you can grow and do your best work

Pay

The salary range for this position is $175,000 to $249,000, with the final offer based on a combination of factors, including education, relevant experience, skills, prior training, internal equity, and local geographic market data.

Schedule

This is a 6-month contract engagement.