The Creative Strategist develops creative briefs, collaborates with clients and teams, manages video production, and drives performance strategies to enhance campaign outcomes.
About Modern Agency
Requirements
Benefits
Modern Agency is a data-driven growth agency that helps e-commerce brands scale through cutting-edge strategy, creative, and our proprietary ecommerce management software, Modern.AI. We blend source-of-truth analytics with sharp storytelling to unlock sustainable growth for our clients.
Key Responsibilities
Creative Briefing & Collaboration
- Create 4–5 detailed creative briefs per day, outlining ad concepts, key messages, and formats for our editing team, following established internal processes.
- Collaborate closely with editors to refine and perfect creative deliverables, ensuring each asset aligns with brand strategy and performance goals.
- Leverage existing processes to develop briefs for data-driven iterations of winning ad creatives, driving continuous creative testing and optimization.
Client Communication & Relationship Management
- Serve as a main creative liaison to clients, ensuring clarity, alignment, and progress across all initiatives.
- Communicate regularly with clients to share updates, secure creative approvals, and maintain transparent collaboration.
- Deliver clear and proactive communication to internal team members to ensure tasks are completed on time and to standard.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Media Buyers, Growth Managers, and the Growth Director to lead internal strategy meetings, ideating new growth initiatives and performance improvements.
- Collaborate with team members across Brand Management, Lifecycle, Influencer/Social, and Amazon departments to support integrated growth strategies.
- Extend collaboration beyond creative strategy to coordinate full-funnel growth strategies with the broader team — ensuring alignment between media, creative, lifecycle, and conversion efforts.
Video Production Ownership
- Lead and manage ongoing video production initiatives, including building scalable processes, creating detailed shot lists, organizing shoot schedules, and coordinating with the Videographer or Production Director to execute.
Strategic Direction & Performance
- Contribute to the development of creative and growth strategies that connect storytelling to performance outcomes.
- Use performance data to guide creative iteration and campaign decision-making.
- Campaigns and creatives that exceed the spend and ROAS targets outlined in each brand’s financial model.
- Streamlined collaboration between creative, media, and client teams.
- Clear communication and accountability across all deliverables.
- A proactive, solutions-oriented approach to creative and strategic challenges.
Requirements
- You live and breathe TikTok and social commerce, constantly tracking shifts in how creators drive sales and influence.
- Required: Hands-on experience managing TikTok Shop and affiliate programs (LTK, Amazon, TikTok Affiliate Center etc.).
- 3–5+ years in influencer or social marketing at a digital agency or growth-focused brand.
- Highly skilled in creator sourcing, outreach flows, briefing, and quality control.
- Strong writing and communication skills with attention to detail.
- Confident leading discussions, presenting strategies, and collaborating cross-functionally.
- Organized, deadline-driven, and able to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Proactive problem-solver with creativity, hustle, and a passion for performance marketing.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Health insurance
- Professional development reimbursement
- Wellness reimbursement
- Opportunity to grow with an amazing team!
Top Skills
Amazon
Ltk
Modern.Ai
Tiktok
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