Senior Creative Strategist

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$127K/yr – $145K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 17 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end creative strategy for high-performing digital and paid campaigns, translating growth goals into testable creative plans and accelerating rapid experimentation across AI-enabled workflows.

  • Lead ideation and development of creatives across channels
  • Build AI-native and human-led workflows for content creation

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the ideation and creative development of high-performing creatives across digital and paid channels.
  • Translate growth goals and audience insights into compelling creative strategies and test plans.
  • Monitor creative performance, analyze results, and iterate quickly based on learnings to surface insights and optimize creative direction.
  • Drive testing and experimentation, moving fast to uncover insights and scale what works.
  • Build AI-native and human-led workflows for content creation leveraging tools for ideation, scripting, video generation, and editing.
  • Partner closely with production and post-production teams to bring concepts to life, ensuring creative excellence and efficiency across both AI-assisted and traditional productions.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Growth, Brand, and Product Marketing to align creative testing with business objectives.
  • Stay ahead of industry and platform trends, acting as a thought leader in AI-driven creativity, emerging formats, and performance storytelling.

Requirements

  • 6–9 years of experience in performance creative strategy , developing creative for channels like paid social, YouTube, CTV, and other performance media.
  • A strategic creative thinker and strong writer with a passion for storytelling, experimentation, and solving puzzles.
  • Proven track record of concepting, writing, and producing advertising that drives measurable results.
  • Creative and analytical in equal measure. You can dig into performance, understand what’s working and why, and turn those insights into the next creative hypothesis.
  • Fluent in AI tools for creative production (e.g. Veo, Sora, Higgsfield, Midjourney, or whatever launches next week).
  • Deep understanding of performance marketing and how creative works differently across channels, audiences, and formats, with curiosity to explore what’s next.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity. You don’t need a fully formed playbook before you start experimenting.
  • Able to lead brainstorms, sell through ideas, manage projects, and collaborate across creative, growth, and marketing teams.
  • Obsessed with culture, trends, technology, and storytelling that connects with real people.

Preferred

  • Experience with direct response creative, user acquisition campaigns, or B2C brands.
  • Experience launching and scaling multiple products, initiatives, or channels within an umbrella brand, with the ability to tailor creative strategy to different audiences, objectives, and business needs.
  • Experience building creative strategy for new or emerging channels where the playbook is still being written.
  • Familiarity with editing software such as Premiere, CapCut, Final Cut Pro, or similar.
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Kikoff

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Kikoff was founded in 2019 with a not-so-simple goal: make it easier for people to build credit. And it’s working. With 2 million customers, we’re helping people achieve their credit goals, so they can build the life they deserve. And we’re just getting started. We’re profitable, growing fast, and we’ve achieved Unicorn status. Our team is made up of data scientists, engineers, AI developers, product designers, & financial gurus. Credit is key to big milestones — from opening a credit card to getting better rates on loans. But there’s a catch: it’s easier to build credit, when you already have it.Co-founders Cynthia Chen and Christophe Chong understood this first hand, so they built a solution. Kikoff’s main product is our Credit Account, a reported tradeline exclusively focused on building credit. But we didn’t stop there. We’ve added accessible features like Rent & Bill Reporting and our AI-powered Debt Negotiation tool to take the time and headaches out of leveling up your financial health. AI is a game changer—and we’re using it to make our products future-proof. Check out our career site to see how you can help credit builders score.

Founded in 2019
San Francisco, California, USA
191 employees (42 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$127K/yr – $145K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$42.5M
Last Raise
$30M
Series B, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2021
    Series B • $30M
  • Jul 2020
    Series A • $10M
  • Nov 2019
    Seed • $2.5M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$94.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24%
Direct
66.8%
Referral
5.7%
Social
1.6%
Paid
1.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~191

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