Creative Strategist Job Description
Creative strategist
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Creative Strategist Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Knowledge of the advertising landscape, agencies, and workflows
Knowledge of and experience with Adobe c-suite preferred
Have an intimate knowledge of platform advertising formats
Have an in depth knowledge of the competitor landscape
Communicate directly with advertisers at all levels of their organization to promote behavior that grows spends and also ensures long-term client success
Collaborate with any relevant areas of the organization (including Ad Products, Ad Operations, Research, Marketing, Events, ) to create integrated programs for clients
Develop a deep understanding and ability to analyze client ROI / CPA goals and data, media buying cycles, Web site architecture, product / service update schedules, marketing philosophy, target demographics
Proactively create strategic recommendations and implement Search and other marketing solutions for each client
Support global clients to develop and execute successful search ad campaign in Japan
Contribute to the overall positioning of Tumblr as an indispensable content marketing opportunity to new and existing priority brands
Creative Strategist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Education for Creative Strategist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the creative strategist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, English, Communication, Design, Journalism, Creative Writing, Education, Business
Skills for Creative Strategist
Desired skills for creative strategist include:
Photoshop
Sketch
Competitor landscape
Experience with Adobe c-suite
Platform advertising formats
Advertising landscape
Agencies
InVision/Marvel App
Powerpoint/Keynote
Workflows
Desired experience for creative strategist includes:
Good understanding of SEO, accessibility and usability design for the web
BA degree in Marketing or a related field
Proven and demonstrated experience in online media creative solutions or similar in creative / media agency
Up-to-date with the latest industry trends and developments in both digital and video
You love to make nicely designed presentations and can visually express your creativity
8+ years of experience in a variety of fields including
Creative Strategist Examples
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Creative Strategist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of creative strategist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for creative strategist
- Develop and deliver scalable internal creative strategies and solutions to support Tumblr Account Executives with go-to-market materials
- Collaborate with all relevant areas of the organization (including Ad Products, Ad Operations, Research, Marketing, Events, ) to create pitches for clients
- Lead strategic conversations that help rethink and reimagine the way we communicate with people in the world today
- Draw on many different sources of insight and knowledge to weave together a strong creative concept and narrative that act as the North Star for creative communications for each of our brands
- Develop insight-driven creative briefs that inspire the best work possible
- Work closely and productively with internal and external creative teams to ensure strategic communications and brand alignment while supporting creative impact
- Work effectively within a collaborative environment to achieve great things
- Act as liaison between account teams and research department
- Actively maintains the creative atmosphere within office, including local activities, trainings, tools
- Measure impact of an online marketing campaign
Qualifications for creative strategist
- Prefer 7 - 10 years of planning experience at a creative agency
- Experience working on brands in entertainment and/or consumer electronics a plus
- Experience working with influencers in entertainment and/or consumer electronics a plus
- Collaborate with Sales, EIU thought leadership, client-branded content teams, and research to develop and deliver client proposals
- Work with the Director of Quartz Creative to build presentations, proposals and POV’s around emerging media, technology and storytelling opportunities
- Perform research to inform strategic recommendations across industries, brands, technology, culture and media
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of creative strategist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for creative strategist
- Act as liaison between internal teams and external creative and media buying agencies, facilitating the creation of assets and the execution of digital advertising, content marketing and other marketing strategies
- Help identify and develop opportunities and partnerships in key Quartz markets and industries (B2B, Technology, Entertainment, Finance, Luxury, Auto)
- Work and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of creative strategists, designers, content specialists and developers
- Establish strong relationships with clients through a compelling presentation manner and confidence and conviction in your ideas
- Tap into and lead brainstorm sessions with the talent across Quartz Creative
- Own the development of strategic narratives and presentations that help us articulate opportunities and ideas
- Help inform Quartz Creative thinking to reach the wider advertising, media and creative community
- Work with the Acquisitions, Content Strategy and BD teams to respond to briefs with bespoke content solutions
- This role works within the Brand and Creative Strategy group, a team of five total
- The role will contribute to the systems and processes within the team to ensure the best possible solutions are being developed for clients through the front-line sales team
Qualifications for creative strategist
- Fluent in qualitative and quantitative research always able to pull out key insights that can inspire creative teams
- A natural storyteller who can help people see old problems in new ways
- Proven experience in online media creative solutions (5 years minimum) or similar in creative / media agency
- Highly developed communication, leadership & analytical skills coupled with a broad understanding of the media industry
- Presentation & communication skills and ability to clearly articulate, focus and communicate a Big Idea” sell
- Previous experience as a Social Media Manager, Content Strategist, or Content Producer at a digital media house or social agency preferred
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Our growing company is looking for a creative strategist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for creative strategist
- The role is a senior team member as will contribute to the systems and processes within the team to ensure the best possible solutions are being developed for clients through the front-line sales team
- Provide creative expertise on RFPs and new business opportunities with regard to branded content proposals
- Work with the Executive Director of Content to manage branded content campaigns from presale, to activation, to finish
- Be client facing when necessary and be a comfortable and capable public presenter
- Contributing to the overall thought-leadership program within the Strategy department for internal inspiration and understanding, client learning and development
- Author and align key stakeholders to IMC briefs
- Work closely with Sales team to enhance advertisers' account performance by providing keywords and ad copy suggestions with compliance to ad policies
- In conjunction with Account Managers, you will need to understand advertisers’ objectives, recommend accurate and effective optimization solutions
- Translate data into specific and effective recommendations and plans for monetization projects
- Recommendations include, targeting and custom segment profile application, site and search re-targeting, feature adoption and account management best practices, etc
Qualifications for creative strategist
- A deep understanding of how content is best consumed, cadenced, and optimized on key social platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Pinterest
- A deep understanding of how relevant social platforms work—and don’t
- Excellent visual storytelling chops—whether it’s bringing a story to life on camera, sketching it out on a whiteboard, or during a presentation
- Strong personal or professional background as a content creator on mobile device
- Fundamental design skills and creative mindset that’s grounded in strategic thinking and user insights
- Clear communicator in-person, over the phone, and via email
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a creative strategist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for creative strategist
- Create ad content, graphics and pictures for monetization
- Manage keyword projects such as categorization and mapping exercises to enhance ad performance
- Work with AM to achieve revenue goal
- Work independently to identify and prioritize opportunities for improved campaign
- Partner closely with AM and other internal team members to provide best-in-class service to clients
- Demonstrate expertise with respect to policy guidelines and best practices in at least one core industry category
- Ideate, create, and deliver World Class advertising campaigns
- Liaise with senior partners across brand and agency to understand their business goals
- Discuss and critique AR, video, design aspects of campaign creative
- Work with sales to develop and implement long-term brand strategy against business objectives
Qualifications for creative strategist
- Proficient with presentation / design software
- Strong social media production experience
- A deep understanding of existing and emerging media, online communities and industry trends
- Comfortable in the role of teacher, trainer and mentor
- BA or BS degree in Communications or English preferred
- True Insight
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Our company is looking to fill the role of creative strategist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for creative strategist
- 8+ years working in a creative and/or strategy role at an agency or platform
- Excellent presenter with first class verbal and written communication skills
- A self-starting attitude and a love for collaborating with others
- To generate and bring big ideas to life with comfort in both traditional (live and screen) mediums progressive (digital, social, mobile) mediums
- Uncover insights and develop solutions that drive the key business goals while maintaining a high bar for creativity
- Partner with others on the team, and also in the marketplace, to make your ideas shine, leveraging best practices to pitch campaigns and creative executions
- Driving timely innovation and relevance for the new or existing clients
- Strong strategic thinker who will develop roadmap for OA creative development for QuickBooks Sequential Storytelling for a myriad of target audiences through digital creative
- Collaborate with other members in the organization to help develop/refine strategies & briefs and to brainstorm creative ideas
- Provide day-to-day management of work to ensure expectations are met
Qualifications for creative strategist
- Experience writing killer creative briefs
- Good writing and storytelling skills
- Experience translating a diverse, dynamic set of consumer and cultural research/data points, business objectives and competing perspectives into clear, actionable marketing strategies
- Exceptional collaborator and consensus builder
- Experience leading or shaping consumer research
- Bachelor’s degree, minimum 8-10 years of experience working in a strategic marketing capacity