Senior Creative Strategist

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$80K/yr – $110K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategic creative direction for integrated campaigns as a senior creative strategist, shaping briefs, audience insights, and cross‑team alignment.

  • Must-have: 5-8+ years as a creative or brand strategist with senior ownership.
  • Standout: Ability to lead cross-functional teams to decisions and elevate the work.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Write sharp, motivating creative briefs grounded in audience truth, brand ambition, and a clear point of view.
  • Turn research, audience behavior, and cultural signals into insights that unlock distinctive creative directions and channel ideas.
  • Partner closely with creative teams through concept development, reviews, and refinements, protecting the core idea while making it stronger, clearer, and more ownable.
  • Develop communications thinking that clarifies who we’re talking to, what we’re saying, and what each channel needs to do to bring the story to life.
  • Collaborate with media and channel partners to ensure the creative idea and communications approach are designed together (not handed off), with clear roles for touchpoints across the journey.
  • Help shape campaign architecture, including audiences, phases, messaging progression, and moments, and ensure the work feels connected across channels.
  • Lead and facilitate working sessions (briefing, alignment, concepting, client prep) that keep teams focused, inspired, and moving toward decisions.
  • Present strategy clearly and persuasively to clients and internal teams, connecting creative recommendations to business outcomes while keeping the work exciting and ambitious.
  • Support and grow junior team members by giving clear feedback, raising the standard of the work, and helping them build confidence in their strategy craft.

Requirements

  • 5-8+ years of meaningful experience as a creative strategist, communications planner, brand strategist, or account planner, with senior-level ownership of workstreams. Experience in B2B and B2C environments is required.
  • Experience with audience research tools (Quilt.AI, Infegy, Resonate, MRI-Simmons, or other relevant tools) and digital twin platforms (Consumr.AI, custom agents, or other relevant platforms).
  • A portfolio of work you’re proud of, especially creative briefs and the thinking that shaped the work.
  • Ability to turn ambiguity into a clear creative challenge with momentum.
  • Strong instinct for what makes ideas travel and how brands earn attention with intention.
  • Experience partnering closely with creative and media teams and translating between disciplines.
  • Strong storytelling and presentation skills; ability to lead clients to decisions.
  • Curiosity and cultural appetite; bringing fresh references and inspiration.
  • Collaborative, thoughtful working style with high standards.
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