Lead Creative Strategist

USA (On-site)

$85K/yr – $100K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead outerbox Creative Services for paid media by driving end-to-end creative production and strategic direction across channels.

  • Own end-to-end creative workflow for brief to delivery across Paid Social, Search, and Programmatic.
  • Must-have: 5+ years of experience leading digital-creative teams and delivering results.
  • Standout: Cross-channel leadership with process standardization and client-facing strategy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and execution of creative strategies for Paid Social (Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, etc.), Paid Search, Google Ads, and Programmatic channels.
  • Oversee all creative asset production—including video, static, motion graphics, ad copy, and interactive formats—to meet performance and brand goals.
  • Act as the creative point of contact for clients, helping communicate vision, rationale, timelines, and results.
  • Manage the end-to-end creative workflow from brief → concept → production → delivery, ensuring work is on time, on brand, and aligned with platform best practices.
  • Partner closely with Paid Media teams to determine required creative asset mixes, testing cadences, and refresh cycles.
  • Ensure creative output ladders to audience insights, funnel stages, platform requirements, and client objectives.
  • Build and continuously refine OuterBox’s Creative Services processes across intake, scoping, revision cycles, QA, and delivery.
  • Develop standardized cost models, packages, and pricing guidance for creative production used across proposals, renewals, and cross-sells.
  • Create templates, briefs, SOPs, and resource libraries to improve efficiency, scalability, and cross-team consistency.
  • Lead client-facing creative discussions, from concept pitches to final asset reviews.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience preferred. Demonstration of exemplary performance may supersede the experience requirement.
  • Experience leading a team to meet goals and deliver successful outcomes. You are capable of guiding, coaching, and having constructive conversations.
  • Strong understanding of digital marketing channels and best practices.
  • Proficiency in creative tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, or similar.
  • Excellent storytelling, copywriting, and content creation skills.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions.
  • Strong project management skills and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience with performance marketing and understanding of key metrics such as ROI, CPC, CPA, and conversion rates.

Preferred

  • Experience working with creative AI tools
  • Familiarity with A/B testing and optimization techniques.
  • Strong problem solving & critical thinking skills. You can identify underlying issues, listen actively, and collaboratively develop solutions that are most helpful and appropriate, considering all angles of a challenge/problem and putting yourself in your teammate’s and client’s shoes.

Benefits

  • We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
  • Our company is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status.
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ADM is a performance marketing agency focused on eCommerce and healthcare. Everything we do revolves around client success, and we take pride in our deep knowledge, transparency, and experience. If your business is ready to take the next step in its growth, our team is ready to help you. We customize every strategy for your goals and objectives and always exemplify our values of a dedicated work ethic, integrity, and collaboration.

Founded in 2016
Chicago, Illinois, USA
50 employees (20 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$37K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.1%
Direct
41.8%
Referral
9.3%
Social
5.9%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~50

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
19 (38% of company)