Associate Creative Director, Creative Strategy

New York City, NY (On-site)

$115K/yr – $135K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 5 hrs ago

Job Summary

You will own the development of strategic platforms and activation ideas for priority clients, lead senior client conversations, and shape the team’s creative process across experiential, content, and performance channels.

  • Own editorial direction of quarterly trend reports and external thought leadership.
  • Lead high-stakes pitches and present to C-suite audiences.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead creative strategy and concept development for priority client assignments, integrated campaigns, and new business pursuits.
  • Turn business objectives, audience insights, and cultural tensions into sharp strategic platforms and original activation ideas.
  • Lead brainstorms and working sessions, helping teams generate, evaluate, and strengthen ideas against the brief.
  • Build clear activation ecosystems that demonstrate how a central idea can scale across experiential, sponsorship, content, social, and other consumer touchpoints.
  • Shape presentation narratives, strategic frameworks, manifestos, taglines, messaging systems, and high-impact pitch materials.
  • Lead senior client conversations and confidently present strategic and creative recommendations to C-suite audiences.
  • Guide and elevate the work of junior strategists, writers, and cross-agency collaborators through clear, constructive creative direction.
  • Own the editorial direction of quarterly trend reports, category-specific insights, and external thought leadership.
  • Help build the team’s creative process, including briefing tools, brainstorm structures, templates, review standards, and shared resources.
  • Move fluidly between long-term brand thinking, fast-turn pitches, and hands-on creative execution.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience across creative strategy, copywriting, brand experience, advertising, or integrated marketing.
  • A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, strategic storytelling, and campaign or activation ideas, not only finished copy.
  • Experience developing experiential, sponsorship, sports, entertainment, or culturally relevant brand work.
  • Proven ability to lead high-stakes pitches and present confidently to senior clients.
  • Exceptional writing and editing skills across strategic, emotional, and highly practical communications.
  • Experience guiding junior contributors and elevating cross-functional creative work.
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and the pace of a growing, entrepreneurial organization.

Salaries

Posted range

$115K/yr – $135K/yr

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