Job Description:
AI Creative Strategist /director
(Creativity × Media × Data × Technology × Supply Chain)
About the Role
The AI Creative Strategist is a thought leader, futurist thinker, and practitioner who redefines what’s possible when human creativity is augmented by artificial intelligence. This role ensures that the marketing supply chains — creative and media — work together as one integrated growth engine. As a creative change agent, you will architect strategies that not only drive innovation but also embed lasting capability inside organizations, ensuring measurable impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Futurist Thinking: Identify cultural, technological, and behavioral shifts to help clients stay ahead of disruption.
- Human + AI Creativity: Design approaches where AI augments human ingenuity, unlocking new creative possibilities while accelerating production and personalization.
- Supply Chain Integration: Connect media and creative supply chains into a seamless marketing ecosystem that reduces friction, accelerates delivery, and improves performance.
- Technology Ecosystem Leadership: Have a clear understanding of the martech and adtech landscape (AI tools, CDPs, DAMs, DSPs, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc.) and how it enables creativity and media to thrive at scale.
- Holistic Solutioning: Diagnose systemic client and organizational challenges, crafting end-to-end strategies that unite people, processes, platforms, and creative innovation.
- Client Leadership: Partner with senior executives to translate transformation into measurable business value and competitive advantage.
- Thought Leadership: Act as a public-facing voice for AI-driven creativity and integrated media, shaping industry conversations and positioning the organization as a future leader.
- Execution to Outcomes: Generate breakthrough ideas and shepherd them through execution — ensuring strategies move from vision to impact.
Who You Are
- A systematic creative change agent who sees creativity, media, and data as an interconnected supply chain that fuels growth.
- A futurist with strong grounding in the realities of marketing operations, platforms, and client needs.
- A holistic thinker who thrives in solving complex challenges with end-to-end solutions.
- A trusted partner who influences and inspires both clients and internal teams.
- A builder and doer who thrives in both ideation and execution, ensuring strategies are delivered, not just imagined.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in creative strategy, media planning, marketing technology, or digital transformation roles.
- Deep knowledge of marketing supply chains, with expertise in how creative and media pipelines integrate to drive efficiency and growth.
- Proven track record of leading cross-functional transformation initiatives across creative, media, and technology.
- Hands-on experience with AI-driven marketing platforms (generative AI, automation, personalization engines) and creative software suites like Adobe Creative Cloud / Firefly.
- Familiarity with enterprise martech/adtech stacks (CDPs, DAMs, DSPs, workflow orchestration platforms).
- Strong communication and thought leadership presence, with the ability to influence senior executives and inspire.
- Would report directly to the Head of Innovation and Performance Strategy.
Additional Information
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $113,000 - $182,850. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.
Benefits available with this position include:
• 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, and
• Paid parental leave.
Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.
To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps. #LI-RB1 #LI-Hybrid
Location:
New York - 150 E 42ndBrand:
Dentsu CreativeTime Type:
Full timeContract Type:
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What We Do
Merkle is a leading technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company. For over 30 years, Fortune 1,000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with us to build and maximize the value of their customer portfolios. We work with world-class brands like Dell, T-Mobile, Samsung, GEICO, Regions, Kimberly-Clark, AARP, Lilly, Sanofi, NBC Universal, DIRECTV, American Cancer Society, Habitat for Humanity, and many others to build and execute customer-centric business strategies. With more than 9,600 smart, dedicated people in more than 50 offices around the world, we are still growing at a rate that outpaces the market, with 2019 net revenue of $1.1 billion.
