Senior Creative Strategist

Austin, TX (On-site)

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

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end social strategy for diverse client portfolios, turning research into blueprint, KPI systems, and narrative-driven briefs that guide creative and client buy-in.

  • Own strategy end-to-end from research to performance reporting, with quarterly pivots and senior-stakeholder reviews.
  • Develop repeatable frameworks and templates to scale strategic impact across accounts.
  • Translate strategy into actionable creative direction and briefs, while mentoring junior strategists and maintaining quality standards.

Job Description

Own end-to-end social strategy for diverse client portfolios, turning research into blueprint, KPI systems, and narrative-driven briefs that guide creative and client buy-in.

  • Responsibilities: Leading strategic immersion and blueprint development for every new client
  • Responsibilities: Diagnosing client business goals, audience interests, and category dynamics
  • Responsibilities: Defining creative pillars and messaging architecture per account
  • Responsibilities: Building the KPI framework that measures success
  • Responsibilities: Presenting strategy to clients in a way that earns trust and buy-in
  • Responsibilities: Owning monthly performance narratives, turning data into actionable recommendations
  • Responsibilities: Leading quarterly strategic reviews and pivots
  • Responsibilities: Spotting when strategy needs to evolve based on performance or market changes
  • Responsibilities: Proactively bringing ideas to clients (not just executing on requests)
  • Responsibilities: Running QBRs and strategic check-ins with senior client stakeholders
  • Requirements: 5+ years in social media strategy, with meaningful experience across multiple client types (agency or in-house)
  • Requirements: Demonstrated success owning strategy end-to-end, from research to blueprint to presentation to performance reporting
  • Requirements: Strong analytical chops, comfortable with native platform analytics, third-party tools, and translating data into narrative
  • Requirements: A point of view on what makes social strategy work in 2026, and the ability to articulate it
  • Requirements: Experience mentoring more junior strategists, or genuine interest in doing so
  • Requirements: Comfort presenting to and pushing back on senior client stakeholders
  • Requirements: Strong written and verbal communication; you can write a deck that lands
  • Requirements: Experience juggling multiple accounts simultaneously without dropping quality
  • Requirements: Familiarity with Monday.com, Dropbox, Google Workspace, Sprout Social and the major social analytics tools
  • Requirements: Versatility across client types: we work with B2B, corporate, and consumer clients
  • Benefits: Medical, dental, and retirement plan with employer contribution
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Faceplant Creative

We're a performance marketing agency specializing in paid social for direct to consumer brands. We offer data-driven creative strategy, content creation, A/B testing, and ad optimization for brands looking to increase their ROI from social media ads.

Founded in 2019
Austin, Texas, USA
8 employees (5 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
22.6%
Direct
48.8%
Referral
7.1%
Social
19.9%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (50% of company)