Senior Creative Strategist

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Highly creative strategy lead with 6–9 years of experience driving ideation, scripting, and testing for digital and paid channels. Brings strong storytelling, AI-enabled production skills, and cross-functional collaboration to align creative work with growth goals. Benefits include comprehensive health coverage, equity, PTO, and retirement matching.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the ideation, scripting, and creative development of high-performing creatives across digital and paid channels.
  • Translate growth goals and audience insights into compelling creative strategies and test plans.
  • Monitor creative performance, analyze results, and iterate quickly based on learnings to surface insights and optimize creative direction.
  • Drive testing and experimentation, moving fast to uncover insights and scale what works.
  • Build AI-native and human-led workflows for content creation leveraging tools for ideation, scripting, video generation, and editing.
  • Partner closely with production and post-production teams to bring concepts to life, ensuring creative excellence and efficiency across both AI-assisted and traditional productions.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Growth, Brand, and Product Marketing to align creative testing with business objectives.
  • Stay ahead of industry and platform trends, acting as a thought leader in AI-driven creativity, emerging formats, and performance storytelling.

Requirements

  • 6–9 years of experience in creative strategy, advertising, social media or content marketing. Ideally both agency and in-house experience
  • Strong creative writing skills and a passion for storytelling, the creative process, and solving puzzles.
  • Proven track record of concepting, writing, and producing ads that convert.
  • Fluent in AI tools for creative production (e.g., VEO 3, Sora 2, Higgsfield, Midjourney, etc.).
  • Deep understanding of social and performance marketing channels, from TikTok and YouTube to Meta and CTV.
  • Creative and analytical in equal measure—you can identify what works and why, then scale it.
  • Comfortable leading brainstorms, managing timelines, and collaborating across creative and growth functions.
  • Obsessed with culture, trends, and storytelling that connects with real people.

Preferred

  • Experience with direct response creative, user acquisition campaigns, or B2C brands.
  • Familiarity with editing software (Premiere, CapCut, Final Cut Pro or similar)
  • Strong presentation skills and ability to sell creative ideas internally.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance for the employee!
  • Meaningful equity in the form of RSU's
  • 20 days of paid time off per year — we encourage taking real time away to recharge and do your best work
  • 401(k) plan with a meaningful employer match to help you invest in your future
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Kikoff

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Kikoff was founded in 2019 with a not-so-simple goal: make it easier for people to build credit. And it’s working. With 2 million customers, we’re helping people achieve their credit goals, so they can build the life they deserve. And we’re just getting started. We’re profitable, growing fast, and we’ve achieved Unicorn status. Our team is made up of data scientists, engineers, AI developers, product designers, & financial gurus. Credit is key to big milestones — from opening a credit card to getting better rates on loans. But there’s a catch: it’s easier to build credit, when you already have it.Co-founders Cynthia Chen and Christophe Chong understood this first hand, so they built a solution. Kikoff’s main product is our Credit Account, a reported tradeline exclusively focused on building credit. But we didn’t stop there. We’ve added accessible features like Rent & Bill Reporting and our AI-powered Debt Negotiation tool to take the time and headaches out of leveling up your financial health. AI is a game changer—and we’re using it to make our products future-proof. Check out our career site to see how you can help credit builders score.

Founded in 2019
San Francisco, California, USA
191 employees (42 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$94.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24%
Direct
66.8%
Referral
5.7%
Social
1.6%
Paid
1.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~191

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
32 (17% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
1.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$42.5M
Last Raise
$30M
Series B, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2021
    Series B • $30M
  • Jul 2020
    Series A • $10M
  • Nov 2019
    Seed • $2.5M

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