The Role

We’re looking for an Global Group Strategy Director to play a pivotal role in leading strategy for one of the most innovative brands in the world: OpenAI.

The Group Strategy Director plays a leading role in shaping client vision, unlocking business growth, and elevating the agency’s strategic offering. You will lead the strategic charge across  the client relationship — driving integrated, insight-led media strategies that connect the brand to audiences in meaningful, measurable ways.

Working closely with clients, planners, channel specialists, data teams and creative partners, you will translate business challenges into effective and progressive comms strategies. Your thinking will influence everything from audience architecture, comms frameworks, award-winning big ideas and measurement approaches. With a strong grasp of evolving consumer behaviour, marketing effectiveness and brand strategy, you'll help clients stay ahead of the curve and ahead of the competition

This role is ideal for a strategic leader who thrives on solving complex challenges, shaping bold thinking, and driving meaningful impact. You will be involved in:

• Developing audience-first, insight-driven communications strategies across key markets and major initiatives
• Guiding the strategic vision for the client, ensuring consistency, innovation, and commercial impact
• Advising senior stakeholders and building trusted, upstream relationships
• Translating business challenges into integrated, progressive comms strategies
• Shaping long-term roadmaps and proactive solutions in collaboration with client leadership
• Driving thought leadership — from written POVs to panels, industry events, and internal forums
• Overseeing strategic quality control to ensure best-in-class output
• Mentoring and developing Strategy Directors within the team

You’ll excel in this role if you have:

• Extensive experience operating at Senior Strategy Director level from within a media agency environment.
• A proven track record of shaping and delivering multi-market media strategic solutions ideally for other global tech (or similar) brands.
• Deep understanding of audience insights, measurement, behavioural data, and media effectiveness.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and managing high-profile, complex client relationships.
• A future-focused mindset, with interest in emerging technologies, AI, and how automation can enhance creativity and performance.
• Leadership experience, including developing and supporting more junior strategists.

About the Agency:

PHD is a growth-focused media agency driven by innovation and creativity.

Founded in London in 1990, we were the first media agency to offer strategic and creative planning at a time when the industry was about buying cheaply and quickly.

Our founders saw a bright future where smart thinking and clever planning could help brands grow faster than their competitors.

Over the many years that have followed, we have continued to build on this defining ethic — with our evolution shaped by a continual investment in thought leadership. And we continue to ensure that our capability and approach evolve in line with changes in media, data, technology, commerce, society, and legislation.  

Today, with over 100 offices in 74 countries, we continue to create remarkable campaigns that lead to remarkable growth – using the extending canvas of data and technology.

https://www.phdmedia.com/

About the Role:

As an International Planning Director, you’ll lead the development of integrated, insight‑driven planning frameworks across multiple markets. You’ll translate business and communications objectives into clear audience, channel, and investment strategies—balancing global consistency with local relevance.

You’ll collaborate closely with global, regional, and market teams, supporting the adaptation of global frameworks, guiding decision‑making, and presenting confident recommendations to stakeholders. You’ll connect data, research, and tools to strengthen planning outputs, contribute to measurement frameworks, and embed learnings across campaigns.

Innovation is core to this role: you’ll identify new platforms, formats, and opportunities, ensuring they’re strategically sound and commercially effective. You’ll also help shape our planning methodologies and support the growth of junior team members, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.

About You

You bring strong experience in communications and media planning, including digital and platform‑led channels. You’re comfortable working across complex, multi‑market environments and skilled at using data to inform practical, actionable recommendations. You’re an inclusive collaborator, an effective communicator, and a leader who supports others’ growth. Commercial awareness and strategic curiosity are essential.

About the Agency:

PHD is a growth-focused media agency driven by innovation and creativity.

Founded in London in 1990, we were the first media agency to offer strategic and creative planning at a time when the industry was about buying cheaply and quickly.

Our founders saw a bright future where smart thinking and clever planning could help brands grow faster than their competitors.

Over the many years that have followed, we have continued to build on this defining ethic — with our evolution shaped by a continual investment in thought leadership. And we continue to ensure that our capability and approach evolve in line with changes in media, data, technology, commerce, society, and legislation.  

Today, with over 100 offices in 74 countries, we continue to create remarkable campaigns that lead to remarkable growth – using the extending canvas of data and technology.

https://www.phdmedia.com/