[Hiring] Freelance Senior Creative Strategist @DEPT®

Role Description

We’re looking for a freelance Senior Creative Strategist with a performance-first mindset. You understand how creative drives growth and you know how to build structured roadmaps that connect business goals, media investment, and creative testing into one clear plan.

• Fluent in the media landscape across platforms and know how creative behaves in paid environments.
• Partnered closely with media teams, understand buying strategies and targeting nuances.
• Translate performance data into actionable creative direction.
• Confident leading client conversations around creative performance, testing plans, and learning agendas.
• Proactively identify gaps, propose solutions, and guide stakeholders toward clear next steps.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple workstreams.
• Build systems that keep testing structured, learning cumulative, and teams aligned.
• This role sits at the intersection of creative, media, analytics, and client leadership.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of agency experience in creative strategy, performance marketing, or growth strategy.
• Deep understanding of paid media ecosystems including Meta, TikTok, Google, Snap, YouTube, and programmatic.
• Proven experience building and managing creative testing frameworks.
• Strong fluency in performance metrics and how they translate into creative decisions.
• Confidence leading client conversations independently.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Media, Analytics, Creative, and Project Management teams.
• Exceptional organization and attention to detail.
• Proactive mindset with the ability to lead without heavy oversight.

Requirements

• A strong point of view on what drives creative performance.
• Clear examples of structured testing that led to measurable growth.
• Ability to balance big-picture strategy with operational rigor.
• Calm, confident client presence.
• A systems-oriented thinker who builds processes that scale.

Benefits

• Rate is dependent on experience, up to $105 hourly for 4-5 months.
• Collaborative, open-door, best-idea-wins environment.
• Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• 401k plan, plus matching.
• PTO.
• Paid Company Holidays.
• Parental Leave.