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Creative Strategist, Performance Marketing

Captions

New York, NY
Full Time
Senior
100k-140k
10 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Captions is the leading AI video company—our mission is to empower anyone, anywhere to tell their stories through video. Over 10 million creators and businesses have used Captions to simplify video creation with truly novel and groundbreaking AI capabilities. We are a rapidly growing team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, researchers, designers, marketers, and operators based in NYC. As an early member of our team, you'll have an opportunity to have an outsized impact on our products and our company's culture.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategy and development of performance ad creative across paid social channels, with a strong focus on driving acquisition metrics / KPIs.
  • Oversee the end-to-end creator lifecycle, including discovery, vetting, outreach, contract negotiation, creative direction, and production, ensuring alignment with brand voice and business objectives.
  • Conduct cultural and consumer research to uncover insights that inform ad concepts, messaging, and positioning across platforms.
  • Author and manage detailed, strategic creative briefs for creators, agencies, and internal partners.
  • Analyze performance data to identify creative trends, inform ongoing testing frameworks, and optimize existing assets.
  • Support influencer marketing initiatives.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in creative strategy, performance marketing, or a related role, preferably in a fast-paced or high-growth environment.
  • Proven success developing and scaling direct-response ads on Meta and TikTok.
  • Experience with platforms like YouTube and LinkedIn is a plus.
  • Experience managing creator and influencer partnerships at scale, with a strong understanding of UGC and branded content dynamics.
  • Strong analytical skills and fluency in tools like Google Sheets or Excel to track creative performance and extract insights.
  • Excellent project management and communication skills.
  • Comfortable managing multiple stakeholders and deadlines.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with platforms like YouTube and LinkedIn.
  • Experience managing creator and influencer partnerships at scale.

Qualifications

  • Experience in creative strategy, performance marketing, or a related role
  • Proven success in developing and scaling direct-response ads on Meta and TikTok

Benefits & Perks

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401K with employer match
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Catered lunch multiple days per week
  • Dinner stipend every night if you're working late and want a bite
  • Doordash DashPass subscription
  • Health & Wellness Perks (Talkspace, Kindbody, One Medical subscription, HealthAdvocate, Teladoc)
  • Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
  • Generous PTO policy

Working at Captions

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 29, 2025
Salary100k-140k
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeOnsite
ExperienceSenior

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About Captions

Website

captionsinc.com

Location

New York, NY

Industry

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