As a Lead Creative Strategist, you'll mentor a team, develop digital strategies, collaborate across departments, and enhance creative processes using AI.
Superside is hiring a Lead Creative Strategist to shape how we turn insights into breakthrough creative work. You’ll combine strategic depth with creative leadership, guiding a team of strategists, partnering with customers, and driving measurable business impact across brand, digital, social, and web experiences. In this role, you’ll set the standard for strategic excellence at Superside: mentoring your team, evolving our approach to insight-driven creativity, and helping some of the world’s most ambitious brands make work that matters.
What You'll Do
- Lead and mentor a small team of Creative Strategists, providing direction, feedback, and growth opportunities.
- Oversee strategic development across multiple projects, ensuring clarity, quality, and creative consistency.
- Craft digital-first strategies for campaigns across social, web, display, newsletters, and emerging formats.
- Partner with Creative Leads, Designers, and Copywriters to turn insights into compelling creative concepts.
- Build trusted relationships with customers, uncovering challenges and turning them into strategic opportunities.
- Champion AI in the creative process, from research and insights to ideation, concept testing, and optimization.
- Identify and integrate AI tools and workflows that enhance the speed, quality, and scalability of strategy work.
- Leverage data and research to uncover audience, category, and competitive insights that fuel creative effectiveness.
- Collaborate with Sales and Account teams to expand strategic offerings and drive account growth.
- Contribute to the evolution of Superside’s Strategy discipline, defining best practices, frameworks, and future focus areas.
What You'll Need To Succeed
- 6+ years in strategy roles within creative, advertising, or digital agencies, including experience leading or mentoring small teams.
- Deep understanding of digital ecosystems, creative effectiveness, and platform storytelling.
- Proven ability to turn complex problems into clear, actionable strategies and creative briefs.
- Confident communicator and storyteller, skilled at presenting to senior clients and internal leaders.
- Data-informed thinker who blends analytical rigor with creative intuition.
- Organized and adaptable, able to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced, distributed environment.
- Entrepreneurial mindset: proactive, resourceful, and comfortable challenging convention to improve outcomes.
- Enthusiasm for innovation, emerging technologies, and the evolving intersection of AI, creativity, and strategy.
Why Join us?
Superside's vision is to create equal opportunities globally by accelerating the world’s transition to online work. With that in mind, we're building a fully remote company that attracts people where they are.
Remote-first. Customer-led.
Remote isn’t just a perk; it’s how we deliver better for customers. We are fully committing to our customers by hiring top talent and collaborating seamlessly across time zones.
Global team, local impact.
Join a community of 60+ nationalities working across time zones, cultures, and disciplines, all aligned on doing great work for great brands.
High performance, low ego.
Work in a fast-paced, high-trust environment where feedback is direct, growth is constant, and kindness leads collaboration.
Impact meets opportunity.
We’re in the sweet spot — big enough to be stable, small enough for you to shape what’s next. Your ideas will matter here.
Grow fast. Lead well.
You’ll gain mentorship, take on real responsibility, and grow your career while helping us disrupt a global industry.
About Superside
Superside is the leading AI-powered creative company that quickly and cost-effectively enhances in-house functions. We help over 500 ambitious brands get great creative concepts done at scale. Built to be an extension
of in-house teams, we unbottleneck marketing and creative teams so they can move faster and drive more reliable creative performance.
Superside is a fully remote company with over 700 team members working across 60+ countries and 13 timezones.
Learn more at superside.com
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We’re an equal-opportunity company. All applicants will be considered regardless of ethnicity, appearance, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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