Director, Creative Strategy

USA (Remote)

$136K/yr - $163K/yr (Est.)Director/Executive10+ years exp

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the high impact creative strategy in a fast paced social environment, turning cultural signals and post campaign learnings into repeatable, platform native concepts for multiple clients.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Ensure strategy quality and consistency across the pod with a tight through-line from ideas to performance.
  • Brand Measurement: Translate signals into creative opportunities and ensure learnings shape future concepts.
  • Cross-functional Alignment: Maintain senior partner cohesion and translate strategy into clear creative direction for execution.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end quality of creative strategy output, ensuring strategic thinking is the through-line behind every creative idea that gets delivered.
  • Be the accountable "final pass" for creative strategy deliverables across priority work, with a bias toward clarity, platform-native thinking, and performance relevance.
  • Drive the development of social-first creative concepts, campaign ideas, and strategic recommendations aligned with client objectives.
  • Partner with Strategy and Business Intelligence to translate cultural, platform, and performance signals into clear creative opportunity areas.
  • Operate as an anchor leader within the division, sitting across multiple opportunities/clients and guiding the pod's strategic-to-creative output.
  • Use performance data and post-campaign insights to refine creative strategy frameworks, ensuring learnings translate into stronger future concepts and platform approaches
  • Provide direct leadership, including improving output quality, sharpening strategic rigor, and raising the standard of social-first thinking.
  • Serve as the primary point of alignment for senior creative partners for cohesion, quality control, and strategic consistency.
  • Shape and strengthen strategic narratives, pitches, and creative storytelling for new business and client engagements.
  • Support and, when required, lead client presentations, translating strategy into clear creative direction and actionable next steps.
  • Advise on creative direction during content development/production, ensuring alignment with platform trends and performance insights.
  • Develop and evolve repeatable creative strategy frameworks (platform playbooks, concepting structures, signal-to-idea methodologies) that elevate consistency and quality across teams.
  • Translate cultural trends, platform updates, and performance insights into actionable creative guidance for clients and internal teams.
  • Contribute hands-on to ideation and concept development when needed to unblock teams or elevate creative thinking.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams (Business Development, Client Services, Media, Measurement) to ensure strategy and creative recommendations convert into cohesive, effective execution.
  • Align stakeholders early, clarify inputs/owners, and drive decision-making to keep work moving and standards high.
  • Contribute forward-looking ideas and thought leadership to support innovation and strengthen Viral Nation's creative approach.
  • Act as the connective layer between Strategy, Creative, Creator Relations, and Community Management to ensure creative ideas translate seamlessly into execution across the social ecosystem.
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Viral Nation

Viral Nation is a global leader in social media innovation, uniting powerful marketing services, proprietary technology, and creator representation. Founded in 2014, we’ve evolved to fuel cultural resonance and predictable growth for brands through a social-first approach. Our belief that creators and social communities are the new media of today and tomorrow steers our world-class services, which include influencer marketing, community management, social content production, social strategy, and our talent representation agency. Our creator intelligence technology, CreatorOS, and AI-powered brand safety solution, Secure, allow us to maximize creator partnerships while safeguarding brand reputation. To learn how we’re redefining the ways brands engage and thrive in an ever-evolving digital world, please visit www.viralnation.com

Founded in 2014
New York, New York, USA
450 employees (130 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
62.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$277
Traffic Source Mix
Search
47.4%
Direct
40.3%
Referral
9.2%
Social
1.9%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~450

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
109 (24% of company)
Median Career Experience
8 years
Median Tenure
2.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

Funding

Total Funding
$197.9M
Last Raise
$197.9M
Private Equity, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2022
    Private Equity • $197.9M

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