Senior Creative Lead (Freelancer)

New York City, NY (Remote)

$22/hr – $95/hrSenior Level5+ years expContract

Posted 12 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end performance-focused content creation across ideation, production, and post-production, guiding trend-driven development, delivery QA, and multi-project operations while collaborating with clients and internal teams.

  • Lead content from concept to delivery across paid and organic channels
  • Manage multi-project studio shoots and post-production workflows
  • Apply social trends and analytics to inform brand storytelling

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Performance-Focused Content Creation: Craft content with intent. From ideation to execution, you’ll be charged with weaving out clients’ visual identity, voice, and ethos into groundbreaking content, pushing engagement and metrics beyond set KPIs.
  • Multifaceted Ideation and Creative Development: You’ll brainstorm, concept, plan, produce, edit, and write copy for content within a lean structure to bring ideas to life.
  • Trend Analysis & Application: Vigilantly monitor the digital sphere. Absorb emerging social trends, ensuring our content remains at the front of relevance and innovation. When a trend surfaces, you're already brainstorming how to adapt it to our unique brand narrative.
  • Detail-Oriented Post-Production & Delivery: Ensure each content piece undergoes rigorous post-production process & QA. From video edits, image selection, retouching to quality checks, every detail matters.
  • Operational Mastery: Command multiple projects. Adhere to tight schedules, and ensure an iterative approach, valuing feedback and refining accordingly.]
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Requirements

  • Solid Track Record: 5-6 years experience, creating and producing paid and organic social content. Your portfolio should echo your proficiency.
  • Technical Prowess: Deep knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects), Figma, and Capcut. Photo+Video Camera operations, audio recording nuances, and lighting techniques should be second nature to you.
  • Strong Design Capabilities: Strong digital design portfolio, encompassing static and motion design across digital ad placements and campaigns
  • Studio Proficiency: Over 3+ years planning/running in-studio shoots. This entails everything from setting up the perfect shot to ensuring the lighting captures our clients’ energy.
  • Intuitive Insights: A holistic grasp of the social media landscape is crucial. This entails understanding not just the emerging trends but the undercurrents shaping them.
  • Versatility: Equally adept at team-based and solo projects. The ability to pivot between collaboration and independent endeavors is crucial.
  • Rapid Adaptability: A dynamic environment isn't a challenge but an opportunity. This role demands proactive problem-solving and an innate drive.
  • Excellent Communication Skills: The ability to communicate well with clients and internal stakeholders is a must.
  • Production Budget Management: Ability to bid, forecast, keep a running total, and reconcile wrapped budgets for your shoots is a must.

Preferred

  • Generative AI Experience: Proficiency in Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT a plus
  • Retouching: Photo retouching a plus
  • Styling & Set/Prop Design: Experience with wardrobe selection & curation, set design, prop selection and styling
  • Food & Beverage Production: Experience generating content for food & beverage brands, particularly alcohol & spirits, that’s awesome.
  • Fashion/Retail Production: Experience generating content for retail and/or fashion brands definitely a plus as well.
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WITHIN

WITHIN is the leading Performance Branding company. We are a digital-first, integrated media and creative agency built to drive measurable growth across the entire customer journey.Our Performance Branding framework unifies brand and performance marketing to eliminate silos and align strategy, media, and creative around shared business goals. The result is smarter investment, faster execution, and stronger outcomes.As a full-service digital marketing agency, WITHIN partners with some of the world’s most innovative brands, including The North Face, Timberland, Touchland, Ben & Jerry’s, and Casper. We help marketing leaders scale efficiently while strengthening brand equity.

Founded in 2015
New York, New York, USA
251 employees (130 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$22/hr – $95/hr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
100 (40% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
3.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
9

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
20.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$20.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.7%
Direct
53.1%
Referral
5.7%
Social
5.3%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~251
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Senior Creative Lead (Freelancer)

WITHIN · New York City, NY · Remote