Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world's first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.
As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
Role: Strategy Lead
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
This is an opportunity to join OLIVER's dedicated in-house studio embedded with embedded with a leading healthcare education institution as Strategy Lead — the strategic intelligence function for a fully integrated creative production studio serving 100,000+ enrolled students across a large, multi-brand portfolio of students, professionals, and enterprise audiences across the healthcare education sector.
The constraint on the next phase of growth is not lack of strategy — it is content velocity, content relevance, and the ability to test and personalize at scale. Your role is to make sure the studio is always working from the sharpest possible strategic foundation, turning audience insight, channel performance, and market intelligence into clear direction for creative and CRM execution.
Based in Baltimore you will lead the end-to-end strategy for email and CRM program — the studio's most commercially critical workstream — while also providing strategic input and optimization direction across paid, social, owned, and emerging channels. This is supported by a platform architecture where OMG organizes and orchestrates the work; Pencil is where the work gets created and optimized and Share of Model is how our client will stay one step ahead in AI-driven discovery. You will be one of the primary users of all three.
We support flexible working and are open to different arrangements. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the process.
The Strategy Lead is the strategic backbone of the OLIVER studio. Approximately 60% of your focus sits on CRM and email — owning the strategy, audience architecture, and optimization roadmap for institution enrollment marketing programs. The remaining 40% spans the broader channel mix: paid social, organic social, owned content, web, and performance marketing — providing strategic input, testing frameworks, and optimization direction that ensures the studio is always creating the right content for the right audience in the right channel.
You are the person who connects insight to execution. You work closely with the Business Director on client strategy, with CRM Campaign Managers on email performance, with the Associate Creative Director on content strategy, and with the Data Analyst on measurement. Three lead SLAs anchor the partnership — cost per asset, speed to delivery, and creative effectiveness in market — and your strategic direction should be visibly improving the third.
CRM & Email Strategy (approx. 60%)
Cross-Channel Strategy & Optimization (approx. 40%)
Account-Wide Strategic Leadership
Gen AI & Agentic Thinking
Strategic command of the studio's three core platforms: OMG (where the work is organized and orchestrated), Pencil (where the work is created and optimized), and Share of Model (how our client stays one step ahead in AI-driven discovery)
Experience using AI tools to accelerate research, audience insight, content strategy, and campaign planning — with rigorous human judgment applied to all outputs
Ability to leverage Pencil's direct connection to live ad accounts — pulling creative performance data back into the production workflow in real time — with every asset scored, tracked, and fed back into the next brief; this is the intelligence layer most agencies don't have
Agentic leadership: systematic, hypothesis-led thinking applied to complex, multi-channel strategic challenges
Ability to set AI-informed quality standards and testing frameworks that the broader studio can adopt
At the time of this posting, the base salary for this position may range from $127,500.00 to $142,500.00. Individual compensation varies based on job related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. The range listed is just one component of OLIVER's total compensation package.
Our values shape everything we do:
Be Ambitious to succeed
Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what's possible
Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work
Be always learning and listening to understand
Be Results-focused to exceed expectations
Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations
OLIVER,a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
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