Managing Director, Client Strategy & Innovation AQ

Aquent partners with the world’s most innovative and impactful organizations, connecting them with exceptional talent to drive transformative results. We are dedicated to building high-performing teams that tackle complex challenges and deliver groundbreaking solutions for our enterprise clients. Join us in shaping the future of how leading companies operate and innovate.

Are you a visionary leader with a passion for strategy, innovation, and operational excellence? Imagine stepping into a pivotal role where your expertise directly influences the strategic direction and growth of a multi-million dollar enterprise engagement with one of the world’s most recognized companies. This isn’t just a job; it’s an opportunity to redefine how work gets done, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and new methodologies to unlock unprecedented value.

You will be at the forefront of innovation, leading a dynamic team to solve complex business problems, challenge conventional thinking, and deliver measurable outcomes that propel our client’s success and shape the future of creative and operational workflows.

• Lead the overall business and creative operations for a significant enterprise engagement.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior client stakeholders, proactively diagnosing business challenges and developing innovative solutions, rather than merely responding to requests.
• Challenge assumptions and influence clients toward superior approaches based on your deep expertise, sound business judgment, and a clear understanding of their overarching goals.
• Lead complex programs from initial strategy through successful execution, meticulously balancing quality, cost, speed, resources, and business impact.
• Take full ownership of P&L management, including forecasting, budgeting, profitability, and driving growth initiatives.
• Identify and cultivate opportunities to expand our partnership across various business areas, including events, content, social media, design, and marketing.
• Build, mentor, and lead high-performing, cross-functional teams that consistently deliver exceptional results.
• Continuously evaluate current operational workflows and identify opportunities to enhance efficiency, foster creativity, improve quality, reduce costs, and achieve greater scale.
• Bring a modern, hands‑on approach to artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, identifying precisely where new tools and approaches can fundamentally improve how work is accomplished.
• Translate innovative ideas into tangible, real-world programs, pilots, and scalable solutions that drive measurable impact.
• Play a critical role in shaping the future of how creative and business services are delivered to enterprise clients.

We are seeking an individual with a rare blend of intellectual curiosity, strategic acumen, commercial judgment, a drive for innovation, and a proven ability to execute. You might come from consulting, an agency, creative operations, technology, or business transformation, bringing a wealth of experience in solving complex problems and leading through ambiguity. Above all, you are a builder and a doer—someone who can conceptualize a strategy, structure a solution, assemble the right team, and make it happen.

You possess a naturally curious relationship with technology, constantly experimenting, exploring, and seeking new ways technology can solve problems, both professionally and personally. You understand that true innovation lies not in using technology for its own sake, but in creating superior business outcomes.

• Significant leadership experience in business operations, creative services, consulting, agency, technology, transformation, or related environments, with a demonstrated…