Lead Creative Strategist

Los Angeles, CA (Remote)

$80K/yr – $90K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the creative direction engine for performance-driven social campaigns, turning audience insights into platform-ready concepts and coordinating with media to optimize results.

  • Audience insights translate into concepts and asset directions that move campaign metrics across YouTube, TikTok, Facebook/Instagram, and display.
  • Collaborate with media to refine messaging, A/B tests, and creative learnings that lift KPI performance.
  • Own the creative launch pipeline and cross-functional briefs to ensure on-time, on-brand delivery.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build creative and messaging strategies that help brands grow across digital channels, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and display. Develop clear frameworks that guide concept development, ensuring creative work is grounded in performance insights and designed to resonate with target audiences.
  • Serve as the Creative Strategy Lead for Clients
  • Participate in client meetings as Donut Studios’ in-house creative strategist for assigned accounts. Provide thoughtful guidance on creative direction, campaign opportunities, and platform-specific best practices while helping clients understand the strategic thinking behind recommendations.
  • Turn Audience Insights into Creative Direction
  • Analyze consumer mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors to inform compelling creative concepts. Translate these insights into actionable direction for internal teams, ensuring creative work connects with audiences and supports campaign objectives across the customer journey.
  • Partner with Media to Drive Creative Performance
  • Work closely with media counterparts to review campaign performance and identify opportunities to improve results. Use performance data, KPIs, and client feedback to refine creative strategies, optimize messaging, and guide future concept development.
  • Manage Creative Launch Pipelines
  • Coordinate closely with media partners to manage launch pipelines for assigned clients, ensuring deliverables are completed, reviewed, and shared on schedule. Maintain visibility into timelines and dependencies to keep campaigns moving forward efficiently.
  • Lead Creative Briefing and Project Management
  • Develop clear creative briefs and manage assignments for internal teams using tools like Asana and Slack. Ensure projects are well-scoped, expectations are clear, and teams have the context they need to produce high-quality creative work.
  • Ensure Quality and Brand Alignment
  • Review scripts, concepts, and final deliverables to ensure creative output meets client expectations, brand guidelines, and campaign goals. Maintain strong quality control across all deliverables before launch.
  • Strengthen Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Build processes and workflows that support collaboration between creative, media, and client teams. Help ensure ideas, feedback, and performance insights move smoothly across teams so campaigns are executed efficiently and effectively.
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New Engen is a digital marketing agency driving impact for brands across every phase of the customer journey – maximizing it, measuring it, and repeating it. Through a genuine passion for building brands, a relentless desire to challenge the status quo, and deep digital expertise across hundreds of brands and verticals, we put our clients on the cutting edge of what’s possible in digital marketing.

Founded in 2016
Seattle, Washington, US
479 employees (204 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
97% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
33.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$53
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.6%
Direct
45.4%
Referral
15.4%
Social
6.9%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~471

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
184 (39% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
3.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
27

Funding

Total Funding
$10.6M
Last Raise
$8.1M
Private Equity, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2021
    Private Equity
  • May 2017
    Series A • $8.1M
  • Sep 2016
    Seed • $2.5M

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