Lead Creative Strategist

USA (Remote)

$100K/yr – $120K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead high level Creative Strategy workstreams for major clients, translating complex business problems into strategic narratives, messaging architectures, and measurable learning pathways while partnering across Creative Studio, Analytics, and channel teams.

  • Own complex strategic work independently across top client opportunities
  • Drive messaging architecture, testing roadmaps, and senior stakeholder storytelling
  • Collaborate to convert strategic insights into execution guidance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead high-complexity Creative Strategy workstreams for major clients, pitches, or transformation opportunities.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into clear creative strategy recommendations, messaging frameworks, testing priorities, and strategic narratives.
  • Influence senior client and internal stakeholders through concise, persuasive, business-grounded storytelling.
  • Act as a trusted senior strategy partner when clients need help understanding what creative should say, why it should say it, and how it should evolve across platforms.
  • Support major growth opportunities where creative effectiveness, creative testing, messaging architecture, or platform adaptation is a central driver of client value.
  • Develop advanced Creative Strategy outputs, including creative audits, creative effectiveness roadmaps, messaging architectures, CAB systems, testing frameworks, and pitch narratives.
  • Help improve Creative Strategy frameworks, templates, and methods through strong examples, feedback, and applied craft leadership.
  • Use AI, creative analytics, audience research, and platform tools to improve strategy development, insight quality, and workflow efficiency.
  • Partner with Creative Studio and cross-functional teams to ensure strategy inspires strong creative output and translates clearly into executional guidance.
  • Contribute to case studies, thought leadership, and internal enablement that help the agency understand and sell Creative Strategy.

Requirements

  • 8-10+ years of experience in creative strategy, brand strategy, communications strategy, performance creative strategy, or related strategic roles.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex strategic work independently across major clients, pitches, or high-value workstreams.
  • Strong expertise in messaging strategy, creative effectiveness, creative testing, audience insight, and performance-informed creative recommendations.
  • Advanced ability to synthesize data, research, cultural signals, platform behavior, and business context into clear strategic direction.
  • Strong client-facing presentation and storytelling skills, including senior stakeholder influence.
  • Experience partnering closely with Creative Studio, Media, Analytics, Communications Planning, Client Partnership, and channel teams.
  • Strong fluency with paid social, video, streaming, display, web, commerce, and related digital environments.
  • Comfort using AI and creative analytics tools to improve quality, efficiency, and insight generation with strong judgment and validation.
  • Ability to travel for key client meetings, pitches, and internal working sessions as needed.

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO: At Tinuiti, we believe you deserve time to rest, recharge, and enjoy life unplugged. When you prioritize time for yourself, you're able to bring your best self to work. That’s why we offer unlimited paid time off, a fully remote environment, and flexibility to take the time you need, when you need it. On top of that, we provide 20 paid holidays, including multiple long weekends, to ensure you have dedicated time to step away and disconnect. We're proud to offer above-industry standard work-life balance, consistently rated as one of the most loved benefits by Tinuitians year after year.
  • Healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability, Flex Spending Accounts
  • Retirement: Match up to 4% of your contributions at 100%
  • Perks and Wellness: Fringe, Forma, Unlimited Telemedicine and Teletherapy available at no cost, Thankful giving, Equity
  • Parental Leave: Birthing parents receive 16 weeks of leave with 100% pay (partners 12 weeks) after the birth or adoption of a child.
  • Learning and Development: On-demand learning, mentorship program, leadership and management development programs and resources
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Tinuiti

Tinuiti is the largest independent full-funnel marketing agency in the U.S. across the media that matters most, with $4 billion in digital media under management and more than 1,200 employees. Built for marketers who demand growth and accountability, Tinuiti unites media and measurement under one roof to eliminate waste—the biggest growth killer of all—and scale what works. Its proprietary technology, Bliss Point by Tinuiti, reveals the truth around growth and waste, and how to capitalize on it. With expert teams across Commerce, Search, Social, TV & Audio, and more, Tinuiti delivers measurable results with brutal simplicity: Love Growth. Hate Waste. https://tinuiti.com/.

Founded in 2004
New York, NY, US
1.2K employees (353 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
92.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$8.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.8%
Direct
43%
Referral
8.2%
Social
1.7%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
303 (26% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
4.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
15

Funding

Last Raise
Debt Financing, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2019
    Debt Financing

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