Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Our internal agency within the Marketing team at Publicis Sapient plays a critical role in shaping how we show up across the world—through powerful storytelling, design excellence, and the smart integration of emerging technologies like AI.

As Associate Director of Creative Strategy within the internal agency, you'll be the cultural decoder who bridges strategic relevance with creative vision for our company. Working in close partnership with our Creative Director, you'll ensure our creative executions are not just visually exceptional, but culturally resonant and strategically sound. 

This role demands someone who can navigate the electric third rail of culture—identifying emerging signals, understanding their significance, and translating them into meaningful creative approaches. You possess not only sharp analytical & research skills, but also the intuition to recognize what will matter tomorrow, paired with the strategic rigor to make these insights actionable for our creative teams and valuable for our audience.

Your Impact

• Partner closely with the Creative Director to develop creative strategies, content and vision for Publicis Sapient
• Synthesize research, emerging trends, and business goals to translate into creative briefs that inspire the internal agency team
• Provide strategic guidance and direction to the creative team in their work, creating frameworks without constraining creative possibility

Your Skills & Experience

• 12+ years’ experience at a creative agency; shaping and guiding creative work
• Exceptional cultural radar—ability to detect meaningful signals amid cultural noise and translate into strategic insights and actionable creative strategies
• Background in strategic roles that interface between creative execution and business
  objectives
• Strong leadership skills and confidence in your decision making skills, with able to evolve and grow as an individual
• High attention to detail and the ability to constructively evaluate creative work
• Deep understanding of how aesthetics, language, and narrative evolve across different
  communities
• Talent for articulating complex cultural concepts in accessible ways for diverse
  stakeholders
• Natural curiosity that extends beyond typical industry research into unexpected
  domains
• Comfort moving between high-concept thinking and practical application
• A profound excitement and incorporation of the latest tools and technology into your
  workflow and process

Pay Range: $125,000-150,000.

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicis.sapient.com