Associate Director, Strategy (Hudson Rouge)

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement Optimization.

In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.

We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. com . WHO IS HUDSON ROUGE?

Hudson Rouge is an integrated luxury boutique marketing and communications agency within WPP that works solely on luxury brands and is the exclusive agency of record for the Lincoln Motor Company business across all channels. We combine brand strategy, media strategy, activation, digital, social, earned media, production, and analytics to provide exquisitely crafted creativity. We are a small group of people, spread across several offices — New York, Detroit, Shanghai, Toronto, Mexico City — and we care for each other as much as we care for our clients.

We are an agency that prides itself on creating irrational desire for luxury brands, and we look for uniquely talented people who are excited about doing their best work and want to grow with us. THE OPPORTUNITY Associate Strategy Director Could this be you? Do you: Get intrigued observing human behavior?

Get puzzled when people confuse data points with insights? Enjoy exploring interesting solutions to new—and timeless—problems? Love learning, and read everything and anything in your quest to explore understand?

If the answer is “yes,” then you might be our next Associate Strategy Director. Read on.

Qualifications

and experience 6+ years’ experience in a field related to strategy, insights, or planning (not necessarily brand planning) Digital social experience Experience and interest in working and innovating with generative AI Ideally, experience working with auto brands Ideally, experience working with luxury brands The Associate Strategy Director works closely with all teams at Hudson Rouge, across Canada and the US. They will use their insightful and strategic problem-solving approach for both agency-wide integrated campaigns and specific initiatives.