Creative Lead

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$165K/yr – $185K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

The role leads end-to-end creative work across channels, directing a multi-disciplinary team and collaborating with product, growth, and design to turn briefs into culture-driving ideas while maintaining brand voice and identity.

  • Lead creative talent and multi-disciplinary teams from concept to launch
  • Set vision, influence senior stakeholders, and tie creative decisions to strategy
  • Foster a culture of honest critique and mentorship to raise taste and quality

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop concepts, campaigns, and brand platform work across every channel and format
  • Provide creative direction across the full department, your authority extends beyond your direct reports
  • Manage and grow a team of writers, video editors, TikTokers, social media managers and other weird, wonderful talent who want to do the best work of their careers
  • Concept and create key pieces yourself to keep your craft-soul alive and stay creatively match fit - you're a player/coach, not a spectator
  • Work with product, growth, and marketing science to turn briefs into ideas that travel
  • Brief and direct freelancers and production crews during campaign peaks and big brand moments
  • Set the creative processes, review cadences, and quality bar as the department scales
  • Keep voice, tone, and identity consistent everywhere. Not matching luggage but obviously Tracksuit in spirit, style and vibes
  • Work closely with the Global Art Director, Brand Manager and wider design crew (separate teams, also under Brand) to ensure the brand asset buffet is growing not just follower counts
  • Build a culture where ideas flow like an unhinged group chat at 2am, where people love challenging each other's work without feeling threatened or demotivated

Requirements

  • Experience leading creative talent and multi-disciplinary teams from concept to launch
  • Proven track record shipping integrated campaigns at a high craft bar, whatever the budget
  • Ability to set vision, influence senior stakeholders, and tie creative decisions to strategy
  • A knack for turning even dull insights into culture-driving ideas people actually want to watch
  • Excellent communicator: you simplify complexity, make fast calls, and bring people with you
  • Experience managing agencies and partners across markets, known for raising quality and speed
  • A portfolio of world-class craft and storytelling that earns attention rather than buying it
  • Deep fluency in social and creator ecosystems, and how to turn cultural signals into breakthrough ideas
  • Experience setting up creative operating rhythms with marketing, product, and design
  • Full-stack creative capability: you produce, direct, and bring your own voice to a story rather than specialising narrowly

Benefits

  • Compensation: competitive market-rate remuneration, reviewed regularly with a strong focus on fairness and transparency.
  • Employee Share Option Program (ESOP): so that everyone on the team shares in Tracksuit's success.
  • Health and wellbeing: annual wellness bonus, access to EAP (employee assistance programme), and generous annual leave.
  • Parental benefits: paid parental leave and support for a smooth return to work.
  • Learning and development: annual L&D budget plus opportunities for growth, mentorship and exposure.
  • Flexible working: office-first culture with flexibility to support balance and performance.
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Founded in 2021
Auckland, Auckland, NZL
212 employees (44 in marketing)
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Salaries

Posted range

$165K/yr – $185K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
38 (18% of company)
Median Tenure
1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$43.6M
Last Raise
$25.4M
Series B, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Series B • $25.4M
  • Feb 2024
    Series A • $13.5M
  • Feb 2023
    Seed • $4.8M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
38.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.8%
Direct
44.6%
Referral
7.2%
Social
3.9%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~212

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