iHeartMedia is looking for a Creative Strategist to serve as the primary client contact and subject matter expert for all digital creative and social programs. This role is central to educating clients on effective creative, supporting the salesforce, and ensuring the Design Hub operates efficiently.
What You'll Do
- Service 155 local markets and 1,200 sellers by delivering custom creative concepts across video, paid social, display, and audio.
- Provide a strategic lens and POV to bring campaigns to life through industry-leading digital creative and social trends.
- Lead/contribute to driving incremental revenue and client renewals with internal departments Client Success, Unified Markets, and Design Hub.
- Maintain strong client relationships and retention.
- Monitor and provide digital creative analysis, learnings, and strategy recommendations.
- Gather necessary info from AEs to submit 10,000+ custom creative requests (design and video) to Design Hub across iHDS/Markets Group.
- Attend internal and external creative or social strategy calls to ideate strategy surrounding creative requests and platform-specific products.
- Submit concept decks/briefs for client approval to expedite creative requests, including social platform mockups.
- Navigate social questions across all platforms; collaborate with end-to-end DSEs on social campaign plans and deployments.
- Create social calendars for signature accounts with multiple ads running in approved scenarios.
- Ideate or trim copy for any digital asset requested through their markets.
What We're Looking For
- Must know social best practices and general interface/navigation knowledge for key platforms: Meta, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, and LinkedIn.
- Strong project management skills.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Comfortable concepting and pitching creative both internally and externally.
- Ability to research, develop, and communicate strategic marketing plans for clients.
- Able to think strategically and visualize creatively.
- Natural leader with a desire to mentor junior creatives.
- Knowledge in Microsoft, Google, and Adobe products; experience with Wrike is a bonus.
- Respect for others and a strong belief that others should do this in return.
- Ability to work within prescribed guidelines without needing close supervision.
- Problem-solving skills within established procedures and understanding of when to seek guidance for unforeseen problems.
- Close attention to detail.
- Ability to act in a professional manner and collaborate with colleagues of different levels.
Nice to Have
- Strong video production and editing background preferred.
Technical Stack
- Microsoft products
- Google products
- Adobe products
- Wrike
Team & Environment
You will join a small but important team within the Creative Strategy, Markets Group.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary to be determined by multiple factors including but not limited to relevant experience, knowledge, and skills.
iHeartMedia is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace centered on collaboration, curiosity, welcoming dissent, accepting mistakes in the pursuit of new ideas, and respect for everyone.
