Creative Strategist

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$86K/yr – $91K/yrMid Level6+ years expContract

Posted 13 days ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end development and articulation of brand strategy and creative briefs, guiding workshops, interviews, research synthesis, and strategic roadmaps from discovery to execution.

  • Lead client workshops, stakeholder interviews, and strategic presentations.
  • Translate research and market signals into actionable brand insights and creative directions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • - Champion VMGROUPE Brand Therapy sessions, onboarding workshops, and strategic discovery processes.
  • - Develop workshop agendas, exercises, questionnaires, interview guides, and facilitation tools that uncover meaningful brand and business truths.
  • - Ask incisive, thought-provoking questions that move clients beyond surface-level answers.
  • - Lead stakeholder interviews and synthesize diverse perspectives into a unified strategic direction.
  • - Translate audience research, cultural signals, social behavior, competitive activity, and business data into actionable insights.
  • - Build strategic foundations, including brand positioning, audience frameworks, value propositions, messaging architecture, strategic territories, and campaign platforms.
  • - Develop competitive audits, category benchmarks, perceptual maps, trend reports, and white-space analyses.
  • - Identify the cultural tensions, consumer motivations, and category conventions that can inform distinctive creative work.
  • - Develop strategic roadmaps that connect business goals to clear creative actions.
  • - Translate strategy into inspiring creative briefs, content pillars, visual and verbal thought starters, campaign territories, and directional plans.

Requirements

  • - 6+ years of experience in creative strategy, brand strategy, marketing strategy, planning, or brand management.
  • - Agency experience, preferably across luxury, beauty, fashion, fragrance, jewelry, hospitality, spirits, real estate, or culture-led brands.
  • - A portfolio or collection of case studies that clearly demonstrates your strategic role in shaping brands, campaigns, digital experiences, or social ecosystems.
  • - Proven experience leading client workshops, discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and strategic presentations.
  • - Strong command of qualitative and quantitative research, audience segmentation, cultural analysis, competitive intelligence, and trend interpretation.
  • - Fluency across digital, social, content, integrated marketing, CRM, and customer journey strategy.
  • - A clear understanding of how strategy guides art direction, copywriting, design, content, production, media, and performance.
  • - The ability to distinguish a compelling insight from an interesting observation.
  • - Exceptional writing, editing, verbal communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
  • - Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint or Keynote.
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VMGROUPE

2.7 Glassdoor

VMGROUPE is a full-service agency unlike any other. We are your group. An extension to your internal team. Creating desire and achieving transformative growth for leading and high-profile brands. We service luxury and high-profile brands, specializing in beauty, fashion, jewelry, horology, fragrances, fine foods, wine & spirits, real estate, automotive, aviation, tourism, and hospitality.In this digital era, we deliver exceptional branding, memorable content, compelling storytelling, high conversion, and transformative growth. Elevating brands since 2006.

Founded in 2006
New York, New York, USA
28 employees (23 in marketing)
36% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$86K/yr – $91K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8 (29% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$13.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.9%
Direct
46.3%
Referral
6.7%
Social
16.3%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~28
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Creative Strategist

VMGROUPE · New York City, NY · Hybrid