Manager, Creative Strategy

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $105K/yrManager3+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead creative strategy and testing for retail-focused campaigns, translating objectives into on-trend concepts, while coordinating cross-team workflows and client-facing direction.

  • Creative strategy and direction
  • Testing roadmap and performance optimization
  • Client meetings and cross-functional coordination

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead creative strategy for our clients, translating brand and performance objectives into concepts that are on-trend and built to convert, and providing frame-by-frame direction to our designers and animators.
  • Own the creative testing roadmap: define hypotheses, prioritize what to test, and translate results into hooks, formats, and messaging that measurably improve creative performance.
  • Write and refine platform-native ad copy, and serve as a strategic voice in client meetings, presenting creative strategy and direction with clear rationale tied back to performance objectives.
  • Manage day-to-day project workflows, including timelines, deliverables for large-scale asset production, and creative reporting, while flagging potential obstacles early.
  • Coordinate the flow of information between clients, creative production, and account teams to keep projects on budget and on schedule, and advise leadership on how to optimize scope and timelines.

Requirements

  • 3–5 years of creative strategy or creative direction experience
  • Fluent in English (US)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing, Business, or a related field (or equivalent combination of academic and practical experience).
  • Experience in retail media, e-commerce, or working with large-scale retail clients is highly preferred.
  • Experience in a Marketing, Advertising, or Creative environments
  • Strong real-world copywriting experience
  • A portfolio or work samples demonstrating your creative direction and creative strategy work/thinking, alongside campaign outcomes

Preferred

  • Nice to have: Project management experience, design and/or animation experience
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Hi! We're Brainlabs, an integrated media agency on a mission to make marketing more scientific. We built Brainlabs borrowing the best and most applicable parts of the scientific approach. We hired Smart people (The Brains) to develop breakthrough hypotheses, then put every idea through proper experimental conditions using our validation engine (the Labs).We pioneered the use of AI in advertising, which combined with the scientific approach, has propelled us to scale from a single employee to over 1,000 team members, becoming one of the fastest-growing independent media agencies globally. Today, we serve as a media agency of record for results-driven advertisers with total media spend ranging from $10M-$250M—companies like Capital One, Bozzuto, UNICEF USA, and Hornblower Group.

Founded in 2012
New York, New York, USA
1K employees (304 in marketing)
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Traffic Source Mix
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Referral
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284 (27% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
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2.7 years
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Funding

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Private Equity, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2023
    Private Equity
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