Sr. Creative Strategist

SANS Institute

$125K — $142K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in an analytical role
  • 6 - 9 years of experience as a Creative Strategist for DTC brands
  • Strong leadership and communication skills
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent time management and organizational skills

Responsibilities

  • Own creative strategy across paid channels including Meta, TikTok, and Google Display
  • Develop ad concepts based on customer insights and performance data
  • Write detailed creative briefs for internal and external teams
  • Maintain creative flighting roadmaps to ensure a steady asset supply
  • Manage timelines and production from concept to launch
  • Oversee creative agency partnerships and ensure quality deliverables
  • Collaborate with Growth and paid media teams to align creative with account needs
  • Analyze creative performance metrics and develop testing roadmaps

Benefits

  • Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401k contribution opportunity
  • Unlimited PTO plus 11+ paid holidays
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Free Sans product
Full Job Description
Your Role

As Creative Strategist, you own the ideas that sell Sans. You'll sit at the intersection of brand, growth, and production - translating customer insight and performance data into ad concepts, briefing them out to a team of internal creatives and external partners, and making sure every paid channel has a steady supply of work that performs. This role reports directly into our Director of Growth and is a hands-on ownership role: you'll set the creative strategy across our entire paid portfolio, and you'll be accountable for driving creative performance.

Requirements

Responsibilities and Duties
  • Creative Strategy & Concepting
    • Own creative strategy end to end across our paid channels - including but not limited to Meta, Pinterest, AppLovin, TikTok, YouTube, Google Display, and CTV
    • Develop original ad concepts rooted in customer insight, competitive research, and performance learnings
    • Write creative briefs and direction that give internal teams and agency partners everything they need to execute without a dozen follow-up questions
  • Roadmapping & Production
    • Build and maintain weekly and monthly creative flighting roadmaps that keep every channel stocked with fresh, on-strategy assets
    • Manage the concept-to-launch pipeline: timelines, asset volume, revisions, and delivery, so nothing stalls between idea and live ad
  • Partner & Team Management
    • Serve as the day-to-day owner of our creative agency partnerships - translating creative needs, giving feedback, and holding partners to a high standard of quality and turnaround
    • Lead a growing team including in-house junior creative strategists and a network of creatives including video editors, designers, etc.
  • Performance & Cross-Functional Partnership
    • Work hand in hand with our Head of Growth and paid media team to understand account needs and translate them into the right creative at the right volume
    • Analyze creative performance - hook rates, hold rates, CTR, CPA, ROAS, and concept-level trends. Be able to turn what you find into a testing roadmap and clear point of view on what to make next

Qualifications and Skills
  • Experience:
    • Bachelor's Degree and equivalent work experience in a highly analytical role
    • 6 - 9 years of experience as a Creative Strategist for DTC brands
  • Interpersonal:
    • Strong leadership & communication skills: listen, reflect, proactively learn, and thoughtfully mentor
    • Ability to work effectively with different groups of individuals
    • Ability to manage multiple moving pieces - hard working, organized, and results oriented individual
    • Strong time management and prioritization skills

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Benefits

Hours and Compensation

The anticipated base compensation range for this role will be $125,000 - $142,000 annually, plus discretionary bonus and equity. Compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and local market rates.
  • Job Type: Full-time
  • Position will be based out of Culver City, Los Angeles (Tu. - Th. in office/Mo. & Fr. remote)

Benefits & Perks
  • Option for fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Opportunity to contribute to 401k
  • Unlimited PTO plus 11+ paid holidays
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Free Sans product!

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