VP Strategy, Performance Creative

dentsu Austria

. Shape and create Catalyzing Ideas across three distinct business units .

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $164,450 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in creative and media strategy, with a proven ability to define and scale strategic ideas across multiple business units. Excels in leadership, team development, and enterprise-level relationship management while fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

Highest-signal resume keywords

10+ Years Strategy ExperienceCreative Strategy MasteryMedia Strategy MasteryLeadership Experience in Team DevelopmentEnterprise-Level Relationship Management

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Hard Skills

Strategic Narrative DevelopmentIntegrated Media StrategyAudience Signal IdentificationCreative Idea PropagationInterconnected Strategic Systems Understanding

Soft Skills

Team LeadershipPsychological Safety CreationComplexity ManagementCollaborative Thinking

Industry Keywords

Consumer Retail OperationsPharmacy Benefit ManagementHealth InsuranceC-Suite Briefing

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shape and create Catalyzing Ideas across three distinct business units
Build brand worlds that dimensionalize ideas and drive creative work
Develop strategic narratives for enterprise leadership
Architect an Intelligent Story System defining where ideas reach audiences and how they appear in context
Identify audience signals informing where and when ideas become urgent
Ensure coherence across channels, moments, and audiences
Lead creative, media, product, and retail teams around integrated ideas
Hold the enterprise perspective across consumer retail operations, pharmacy benefit management, and health insurance
Identify opportunities for ideas to scale across business units and areas requiring distinct expression
Integrate media and creative strategy from idea through deployment
Build and steward mission-critical enterprise relationships
Assemble, lead, recruit, and develop a world-class integrated strategy team
Create psychological safety and challenge siloed thinking
Create a learning agenda and use measurement to optimize the system

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years strategy experience with deep expertise in both creative strategy and media strategy
Demonstrated mastery of both disciplines, with genuine fluency in how ideas and media interact
Proven track record defining strategic ideas, not just executing them
Leadership experience building and developing teams
Enterprise-level relationship management
Comfort briefing C-suite
Deep understanding of interconnected strategic systems
Comfort holding complexity across three brands, multiple audiences, and multiple signals
Ability to operate at a 30,000-foot strategic level and in the work itself
Evidence of thinking about how ideas propagate and compound
Ability to lead creative, media, product, and retail teams

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, vision, and dental insurance
Life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
401k
Flexible paid time off
At least 15 paid holidays per year
Paid sick and safe leave
Paid parental leave
Discretionary incentive compensation