Lead Creative Strategist

New York City, NY (Unknown)

$90K/yr – $110K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own the creative strategy across assigned clients, shaping concepts, testing plans, and performance-driven iterations for paid social campaigns.

  • Lead creative strategy and testing agendas
  • Translate performance data into actionable briefs and assets

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own creative strategy across assigned clients and verticals, translating business and performance goals into actionable creative plans.
  • Develop creative concepts, hooks, angles, messaging, formats, and testing priorities for paid social campaigns.
  • Analyze creative performance to identify winning themes, formats, audiences, hooks, and opportunities for iteration.
  • Build and maintain structured creative testing frameworks and learning agendas.
  • Turn performance data into clear recommendations on what to scale, what to iterate, what to stop, and what to test next.
  • Document creative learnings across clients so insights can be applied across the wider team.
  • Present creative performance, learnings, testing plans, and recommendations.
  • Stay close to platform trends and emerging creative formats across Meta, TikTok, and other relevant paid channels.
  • Be comfortable getting hands-on with creative production from concept through to final asset.
  • Create and edit paid social assets including static ads, short-form video, UGC-style creative, creator-led content, advertorial assets, and campaign variations.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in paid social creative, creative strategy, or performance marketing, ideally within an agency, high-growth brand, or similarly fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrable experience developing creative for platforms such as Meta and TikTok.
  • Strong understanding of what makes paid social creative perform, including hooks, messaging, pacing, formats, UGC, creator content, and iterative testing.
  • Hands-on creative ability - you should be comfortable creating, editing, or improving assets yourself rather than exclusively briefing others.
  • Experience working with short-form video, UGC, static creative, and creator-led campaigns.
  • Experience managing or mentoring creatives, designers, editors, creators, or other creative contributors.
  • Strong creative judgement and the ability to give specific, actionable feedback.
  • Experience interpreting creative performance data and translating it into new concepts and testing priorities.
  • Strong project-management skills and the ability to manage multiple clients, deliverables, and deadlines at once.
  • Confident client-facing communication and presentation skills.

Benefits

  • Great coworkers and a fun collaborative environment;
  • Required 1 day in office per week;
  • Career growth opportunities;
  • Opportunity to work with clients globally;
  • Many technical and business challenges to solve.
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GeistM

3.3 Glassdoor

GeistM leverages proprietary technology and strategic integrations with key players in content creation, distribution, real-time analytics, and social sharing to drive profitable customer acquisition at scale. We offer network optimization, publisher optimization, headline optimization, content creation, content enhancement, A/B and multivariate testing, landing page optimization, network scaling and social scaling to maximize profitable customer conversion and efficiency of spend.

Founded in 2011
New York, New York, US
42 employees (23 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$90K/yr – $110K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
22 (54% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
5.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Last Raise
Pre Seed, 15 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2011
    Pre Seed

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
21.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.2%
Direct
43.6%
Referral
9.2%
Social
6.4%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~41
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Lead Creative Strategist

GeistM · New York City, NY · Unknown