Associate Director, Creative Strategy

USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level6+ years exp

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own a brand-level creative engine for social that translates audience insight into platform-native concepts and repeatable properties for a scalable portfolio.

  • Own the development of brand platforms and content systems that anchor campaigns across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging formats.
  • Translate objectives and data into sharp briefs and concept territories that drive measurable outcomes and audience engagement.
  • Sharpen creative direction with performance data and platform trends to stay relevant and capable of acting on real-time signals.

Job Description

Own the brand-level creative engine for social, turning audience insight into platform-native concepts and recurring properties that scale across campaigns.

  • Creative Strategy & Ideation: Develop brand-level creative platforms, campaign concepts, and content systems for assigned accounts — grounded in audience insight, cultural relevance, and platform intelligence.
  • Creative Strategy & Ideation: Translate brand objectives, business goals, and social data into sharp creative briefs and conceptual territories that inspire original, high-performing work.
  • Creative Strategy & Ideation: Synthesize performance data, platform trends, and social signals into continuously evolving creative direction — ensuring strategy is sharpened by what the audience is actually responding to.
  • Creative Strategy & Ideation: Serve as the conceptual pressure-test for ideas before they enter production — ensuring concepts are grounded in social platform reality and built to perform, not just to win in a deck.
  • Creative Strategy & Ideation: Bring creative strategic recommendations to Director-level leadership for alignment, input, and integration into broader portfolio and agency direction.
  • Creative Conceptualization & Campaign Development: Develop original, data-backed creative concepts and campaign platforms built to earn attention, drive measurable outcomes, and build brand equity on social media.
  • Creative Conceptualization & Campaign Development: Build and evolve recurring content frameworks, storytelling systems, and creative properties that give assigned brands a consistent, recognizable identity in the feed.
  • Creative Conceptualization & Campaign Development: Identify reactive opportunities in culture and on-platform in real time — and develop creative concepts that allow the team to act on them inside the window.
  • Creative Conceptualization & Campaign Development: Design creative that invites participation and seeds community, not just consumption.
  • Production Partnership & Creative Translation: Partner closely with Social Producers to translate fully developed creative concepts and strategic direction into best-in-class campaign and content delivery.
  • Production Partnership & Creative Translation: Provide direction to produce clear, thorough creative briefs and conceptual guidance that allow Social Producers, creators, editors, and designers to execute with confidence and without ambiguity.
  • Production Partnership & Creative Translation: Maintain an active creative relationship throughout the production process — serving as the strategic and conceptual point of escalation when execution decisions require creative judgment.
  • Production Partnership & Creative Translation: Contribute to creative frameworks and repeatable ideation structures that allow the production team to ship consistently without sacrificing originality or brand integrity.
  • Brand & Community Building: Build and evolve the creative identity of assigned brands on social — ensuring strategic consistency across always-on content, campaigns, and reactive moments.
  • Brand & Community Building: Develop storytelling frameworks and recurring creative properties that audiences return to and that strengthen brand equity over time.
  • Brand & Community Building: Apply a social-first creative philosophy that puts platform behavior, audience psychology, and cultural context at the center of every concept.
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Viral Nation

Viral Nation is a global leader in social media innovation, uniting powerful marketing services, proprietary technology, and creator representation. Founded in 2014, we’ve evolved to fuel cultural resonance and predictable growth for brands through a social-first approach. Our belief that creators and social communities are the new media of today and tomorrow steers our world-class services, which include influencer marketing, community management, social content production, social strategy, and our talent representation agency. Our creator intelligence technology, CreatorOS, and AI-powered brand safety solution, Secure, allow us to maximize creator partnerships while safeguarding brand reputation. To learn how we’re redefining the ways brands engage and thrive in an ever-evolving digital world, please visit www.viralnation.com

Founded in 2014
New York, New York, USA
450 employees (130 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
62.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$277
Traffic Source Mix
Search
47.4%
Direct
40.3%
Referral
9.2%
Social
1.9%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~450

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
109 (24% of company)
Median Career Experience
8 years
Median Tenure
2.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

Funding

Total Funding
$197.9M
Last Raise
$197.9M
Private Equity, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2022
    Private Equity • $197.9M

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