Senior Strategist, Performance Creative

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$85K/yr – $115K/yrSenior Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end strategic testing programs from hypothesis through insights, guiding creative, media, and analytics to translate data into actionable plans that improve performance and customer experience.

  • Develop test plans and learning agendas that connect audience, message, and business objectives.
  • Present insights and recommendations to clients and internal teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Compile, analyze, and present relevant primary and secondary research with limited direction.
  • Formulate clear hypotheses and recommend appropriate testing methods, including A/B, multivariate, sequential, or platform-specific approaches as appropriate.
  • Develop creative test plans and learning agendas that connect audience, message, visual, format, channel, and business objectives.
  • Analyze test and always-on campaign results, identify initial patterns and implications, and translate findings into recommended next actions.
  • Partner with Media and Analytics to align test design, campaign setup, measurement, and interpretation.
  • Synthesize performance data, audience intelligence, cultural signals, category context, competitive activity, and channel behavior to identify meaningful patterns.
  • Develop actionable insights and confidently present them to clients and internal teams.
  • Originate insights that improve creative relevance, campaign effectiveness, customer experience, or business value.
  • Distinguish observations from insights and connect findings to a clear implication for strategy, creative, media, or measurement.
  • Turn complex or unstructured inputs into clear, compelling, and error-free client deliverables.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional experience in performance marketing, creative strategy, digital strategy, media, audience strategy, analytics, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and present client-ready strategic deliverables with limited supervision.
  • Experience turning research and campaign data into actionable insights, hypotheses, and recommendations.
  • Working knowledge of performance channels and the role creative plays across the customer journey and conversion funnel.
  • Strong written, verbal, analytical, storytelling, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams while maintaining accuracy, organization, and attention to detail.
  • Comfort collaborating across Creative, Media, Analytics, Customer Strategy, Client Services, UX, Technology, and Production.
  • Experience with research tools and methodologies, social listening, third-party audience data, creative analytics, or experimentation platforms.
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, analytics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred

  • Experience developing creative test-and-learn roadmaps, learning agendas, or optimization frameworks.
  • Familiarity with Dynamic Creative Optimization, creative intelligence platforms, ad servers, or content activation technology.
  • Experience working across multiple consumer touchpoints and translating strategy by audience, channel, journey stage, and message role.
  • Experience supporting pitches, organic growth opportunities, or thought leadership.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
  • Life insurance,
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
  • 401k,
  • Flexible paid time off,
  • At least 15 paid holidays per year,
  • Paid sick and safe leave, and
  • Paid parental leave.
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We are dentsu. We team together to help brands predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. We know people better than anyone else and we use those insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. We are the network designed for what’s next.

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Performance Creative median pay in the United States

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Senior Strategist, Performance Creative

dentsu · Chicago, IL · Hybrid