Associate Director, Social & Content Strategy

About DEPT:

• We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world's most ambitious brands grow faster.
• We operate at the intersection of technology and marketing, with over 4,000 specialists across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data.

The Role:

• You report to a Group Director of Strategy and collaborate with discipline leads across brand strategy, communications planning, media strategy, and research.
• You track culture before it surfaces in a brief and have strong opinions about what makes content work on a platform.
• You bring craft to strategy: your briefs sharpen the problem, your frameworks drive execution, and your thinking gives creative teams somewhere real to go.

What You'll Do:

• Develop integrated social and content strategies across all channels and build content ecosystems that connect at the portfolio level.
• Write creative briefs that frame the strategic challenge with precision, a clear point of view, and useful constraints.
• Build social listening programs and audience intelligence outputs grounded in behavioral and cultural data.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years demonstrated experience in social and content strategy built inside agency environments.
• Practitioner-level fluency in how modern social works, including algorithmic distribution, paid amplification, creator ecosystems, and AI-influenced search.
• Experience developing audience intelligence that produces real outputs: culturally grounded personas and trend analyses that shape decisions.