Creative Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $130K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own social content architecture and creator partnerships across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X and Reddit, building a cohesive brand voice while scaling UGC, ambassadors, and a scalable creator engine.

  • Content ownership: set the editorial calendar, platform strategies, and ensure tone and visuals stay on-brand across all channels.
  • Creator ecosystem: recruit, brief, coach, and manage creators, contractors, and ambassadors into a unified UGC/affiliate engine.
  • Brand governance: establish review processes, brand guidelines, and scalable workflows for fast, consistent output.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end social content strategy across all owned channels
  • Develop the big-picture content ideas, themes, and series that define Matter’s social presence
  • Set the editorial calendar, posting cadence, and platform-specific strategy
  • Act as the guardian of brand cohesion—ensuring tone, visuals, and messaging stay consistent so social never becomes a patchwork of disconnected posts
  • Partner with the founding team on brand voice, positioning, and campaign moments
  • Lead strategy and output across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, and Reddit
  • Direct Instagram content spanning both lifestyle storytelling and design-forward content that showcases Matter’s technology
  • Build a TikTok presence that’s native, fast-moving, and culturally fluent
  • Oversee long-form YouTube content that goes deeper on Matter’s product, science, and story
  • Establish a credible point of view on X and Reddit that earns trust in communities that reward authenticity

Requirements

  • 4–6+ years in social media and/or creator marketing, ideally in consumer, food, wellness, fitness, or lifestyle brands
  • A proven content strategist with strong creative instincts and a sharp eye
  • Experience managing creators, contractors, or small teams and getting consistent, on-brand output from them
  • Native fluency across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, and Reddit—you understand what each platform rewards
  • Hands-on experience building UGC, influencer, ambassador, or affiliate programs
  • Obsession with brand cohesion and an allergy to off-brand, low-quality content
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity, moving fast, and building from the ground up
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      Matter

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      Matter is an innovation-intensive start-up creating futuristic electric vehicles platforms and energy storage solutions. We are guided by our vision to be the most dynamic company driving India to a sustainable future. We take pride in leveraging our expertise to create tech-backed solutions to empower every individual with the option to choose superior alternatives. We follow a vertical integration model for all the core components in the platform, putting us in a position to be in complete control of the safety, security, performance, and reliability of the system. Delivering exceptional User Experience is at the core of all our initiatives.

      Founded in 2019
      Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IND
      726 employees (63 in marketing)
      0% recommend to a friend

      Traffic Signals

      Monthly Visitors
      116.8K
      Traffic Source Mix
      Search
      56.6%
      Direct
      34.6%
      Referral
      3.2%
      Social
      2%
      Paid
      3.5%

      Headcount Trend

      Current headcount: ~726

      Marketing Team

      Marketing Team Size
      22 (3% of company)
      Median Career Experience
      25 years
      Median Tenure
      16.2 years

      Funding

      Total Funding
      $26.9M
      Last Raise
      $9.9M
      Series B, 2 years ago

      Funding History

      • Jun 2024
        Series B • $9.9M
      • Mar 2023
        Series A • $10M
      • Jan 2020
        Seed • $7M