Senior Creative Strategist

Linqia is the leader in the growing influencer marketing industry. At Linqia, we partner with the world’s largest brands including Danonne, AB InBev, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, and Walmart to build compelling and effective influencer marketing campaigns. Our AI-driven platform and team of experts are leading the transformation of influencer marketing.

We value intelligence, recognize talent and have instilled a culture that supports career development and growth for our employees. We thrive on innovation and accountability, with a customer first attitude that adds true value to everything we touch. Our team members are smart, hard-working, have integrity and love to have fun as we play to win. At Linqia, you’ll be working with others who are passionate about marketing in a fun, fast-paced and data-driven environment.

Job Description

The Creative Strategy team’s responsibility is to deliver world-class influencer marketing creative strategy, creative solutions, and creator-generated content for Linqia’s clients. 

The responsibility of the Senior Creative Strategist is to act as a trusted creative expert and senior support to Linqia’s revenue organization, developing and consistently raising the innovation and quality of our proposals, and executing creatively compelling and effective creator-led client campaigns.

What You’ll Do

• People & Processes:
• Act as a mentor to more junior team members
• Creative (Pre-Sale):
• Ideate on insight-driven creator campaign ideas for our clients
• Lead the creation of Tiger Team and War Room proposals
• Design Canva slides for proposals and proactive decks
• Create social media mocks, including editing images and copywriting, for proposals and proactive decks
• Creative (Post-Sale):
• Craft creative briefs for creators, including sourcing music and designing mood boards
• Give creators feedback on their creative outlines/scripts to up-level their creative executions
• Creative (Cross-Client):
• Stay on top of social media and creator trends with a view to how we can tap into these for our clients
• Special project (25% of hours):
• Brief partner agency on trending Instagram content creation for CPG/retail client
• Oversee social media strategy for CPG/retail client (including reviewing monthly reports and ideating for future creator campaigns and brand handle content)

How You’ll Do It

As a member of the Creative Strategy team, you’ll work to embody Linqia’s core values:

• Be human
• Act like an owner
• Move fast and learn from it
• Create great experiences
• Be a problem solver
• Data wins

In addition to this, our team ethos is to be…

• Good partners to our colleagues and our clients
• Eternally curious and always learning
• Open to change as the industry, Linqia, and our processes evolve

Ideal Qualifications

• +5 years of creative experience at a creative agency, social media platform, influencer marketing agency, or brand-side
• Experience ideating on campaigns, building proposals, and presenting to clients
• Knowledge of social media platforms (in priority order: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, and beyond)
• Experience with 2 or more of the following: copywriting, mock creation, art direction, graphic design, brand strategy, video editing, creative strategy
• Familiarity with Canva, Keynote, and Photoshop 
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Located in the SF Bay Area and able to commute to the office two times a week

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