Creative Strategist

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expContract

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and shape strategic development for a culture-driven brand, blending narrative, research, and partnerships to drive creative impact.

  • Own and craft strategy, campaigns, and brand activations with narrative-driven briefs.
  • Must-have: 3–5+ years in strategy/creative with strong copywriting.
  • Standout: Deep knowledge of art & culture and motivated leadership across multiple work streams.

Job Description

Own and shape strategic development for a culture-driven brand, blending narrative, research, and partnerships to drive creative impact.

  • Own and craft strategy, campaigns, and brand activations with narrative-driven briefs.
  • Must-have: 3–5+ years in strategy/creative with strong copywriting.
  • Standout: Deep knowledge of art & culture and motivated leadership across multiple work streams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop communications, experiential, and social strategies.
  • Lead strategy, conceptual thinking, and “big idea” behind creative campaigns and brand activations, plus craft creative briefs, consumer and cultural insights, and more.
  • Lead primary and secondary qualitative research across brand, consumer and culture
  • Develop strategic principles, opportunity spaces and creative briefs to guide creative explorations
  • Craft brand story and campaign narratives
  • Craft copy for internal materials and select consumer touch points
  • Own and develop impactful, narrative-driven presentations that articulate key aspects of the brand story, strategy, and creative concept
  • Identify new opportunities, moments of impact, and brand and talent partnerships within the cultural sphere that align with the brand’s values and positioning

Requirements

  • 3 - 5+ years of relevant experience in a strategy and/or creative role
  • Strong strategic and conceptual thinking, ability to lead the development of compelling and culturally impactful creative marketing solutions
  • Extensive knowledge of what’s moving the needle in art & culture
  • Knowledge of how to shape culture, not just react to it
  • Exceptional copywriting and storytelling capabilities
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
  • Resourceful and agile thinker, ready to apply a flexible strategic approach to any number of creative problems and briefs
  • Self-starter with strong ambition for yourself, your team, and SSS, always committed to making an idea better
  • Experience in managing multiple clients/stakeholders across multiple work streams
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    Something Special Studios

    Something Special Studios is a creative studio with offices in New York and Los Angeles.Flexing across physical and digital, we offer Strategy, Creative, and Production services to forward-thinking people and brands.As a studio, we challenge ourselves to make work that is meaningful, unexpected, and genuinely exciting. We do this through distinct storytelling, artful design, and an authentic approach to connecting with culture and community — all in an effort to inspire ourselves, our clients, and the world around us to think a bit differently.

    Founded in 2019
    New York, New York, USA
    32 employees (22 in marketing)

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    12.8K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    33.8%
    Direct
    51%
    Referral
    4.1%
    Social
    9.3%
    Paid
    1.6%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~32

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    6 (19% of company)