Creative Strategist, Brand Partnerships

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own brand-led campaign creation and end-to-end execution for Substack, shaping ideas, writers, and client pitches to move from concept to live work.

  • Campaign ideation that fits Substack’s native voice and audience
  • Platform-to-writer matchmaking to maximize fit and approval
  • Pre-sale creation from brief through proposals and pivots

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Come up with campaign ideas that work for a brand and feel native to Substack, rather than an ad bolted onto someone's newsletter
  • Match brands with the right writers and publications, using judgment about audience, voice, and what a given writer will actually agree to
  • Own the creative side of the pre-sale: read the brief, build the proposal, and respond to client feedback with new concepts and pivots
  • Run campaigns from idea through execution, keeping the brand, the writer, and our sales lead pointed in the same direction
  • Join client and agency calls to pitch ideas and pull out the information you need to sharpen them
  • Write the pitch materials, thought starters, and points of view that help brands picture what they can do on Substack
  • Watch what's working across the platform and feed real examples back into the next round of ideas

Requirements

  • 5+ years in creative strategy, branded content, or content strategy, at a publisher, an agency, or a platform
  • A portfolio of campaign ideas you've taken from concept to live work, ideally involving creators or publishers
  • A feel for the RFP process and for writing proposals that win
  • Real instincts for the creator and media space, and a sense for what's fresh versus what's played out
  • The range to hold a creative conversation with a CMO and a practical one with a writer, sometimes on the same day
  • Strong writing, and the organization to run several campaigns at once without dropping the details

    Benefits

    • Substack's compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, and exceptional benefits.
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    Substack

    Substack is a new media app that connects you with the creators, ideas, and communities you care about most. Founded in 2017, Substack is building a new economic engine for culture by putting publishers in charge and enabling subscribers to support the work they deeply value.There are more than 5 million paid subscriptions to writers and creators across the Substack network.

    Founded in 2017
    San Francisco, California, USA
    2.6K employees (2,119 in marketing)