Creative Strategist, Brand Partnerships

New York City, NY (Remote)

$130K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own Substack brand driven creator campaigns from concept to live, pairing brands with writers, shaping pre sale proposals, and driving end to end execution with sales alignment.

  • Campaign ideation that fits Substack brand voice and formats
  • Creator/publisher matchmaking with audience and voice judgment
  • Pre sale creativity: briefs, proposals, client feedback, and pivots

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Come up with campaign ideas that work for a brand and feel native to Substack, rather than an ad bolted onto someone's newsletter
  • Match brands with the right writers and publications, using judgment about audience, voice, and what a given writer will actually agree to
  • Own the creative side of the pre-sale: read the brief, build the proposal, and respond to client feedback with new concepts and pivots
  • Run campaigns from idea through execution, keeping the brand, the writer, and our sales lead pointed in the same direction
  • Join client and agency calls to pitch ideas and pull out the information you need to sharpen them
  • Write the pitch materials, thought starters, and points of view that help brands picture what they can do on Substack
  • Watch what's working across the platform and feed real examples back into the next round of ideas

Requirements

  • 5+ years in creative strategy, branded content, or content strategy, at a publisher, an agency, or a platform
  • A portfolio of campaign ideas you've taken from concept to live work, ideally involving creators or publishers
  • A feel for the RFP process and for writing proposals that win
  • Real instincts for the creator and media space, and a sense for what's fresh versus what's played out
  • The range to hold a creative conversation with a CMO and a practical one with a writer, sometimes on the same day
  • Strong writing, and the organization to run several campaigns at once without dropping the details
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Substack is a new media app that connects you with the creators, ideas, and communities you care about most. Founded in 2017, Substack is building a new economic engine for culture by putting publishers in charge and enabling subscribers to support the work they deeply value.There are more than 5 million paid subscriptions to writers and creators across the Substack network.

Founded in 2017
San Francisco, California, USA
2.6K employees (2,119 in marketing)
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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
129.7M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
16.3%
Direct
69.5%
Referral
7.7%
Social
5.8%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,076 (80% of company)
Median Career Experience
8.5 years
Median Tenure
3.9 years
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