Creative Strategist, Tumblr

About This Role

Tumblr is looking for a socially savvy Creative Strategist who can translate the conversations, trends, and creative aesthetics of the platform into storytelling. To succeed, you’ll need a healthy mix of curiosity, collaboration, and creativity.
You will be part of a team focused on driving direct revenue via advertiser partnerships that leverage Tumblr’s unique audience, media solutions, Creatrs network, marketing initiatives, and new product offerings (ie. Merch, digital goods, Communities). As a Creative Strategist, you will help our team, our prospects, and our advertisers better understand the Tumblr audience and position Tumblr to agency and brand advertisers as a must-buy.

Who You Are: 

• Deep knowledge of Tumblr, internet culture, and social media trends. 
• Are tapped into where internet culture meets digital marketing, and can effectively communicate the unique value of Tumblr to our brand partners and their agencies. 
• 5-8 years experience in creative strategy roles within social media, and/or agencies and/or creative studios. 
• Able to navigate creative tools keynote/slides, Photoshop, gif/video editing.
• Strong written and visual communication skills. You excel at creating compelling audience stories, with insights, observations, and lived experiences
• Creative, flexible, and with a growth mindset. You are comfortable showing your work-in-progress, and welcome creative feedback to help you land on the best ideas.
• Strong and deadline focused multitasker, who can manage your own work while never passing up an opportunity to help out a colleague
• Are comfortable working in a fast-moving and evolving environment.

Primary responsibilities:

• Create both big ideas and creative tactics that tap into audience behaviors and trends, while delivering against the advertiser brief.
• Build copy and communications that reflect Tumblr’s unique brand of internet weirdness. 
• Ability to pitch and sell concepts to internal stakeholders and clients.
• Design decks, assets, and other marketing materials to support sales efforts.
• Support Account Management in the execution of the creative elements and deliverables of sold campaigns.
• Work with our Creator Partnerships Manager to oversee the artist selection, concept approval, and creation of custom campaign assets. 
• Support all Brand Partnership efforts to educate the market, and evangelize Tumblr as an effective organic and paid media channel for brand advertisers. 

Salary range: $120,000-$180,000 USD.  Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.

We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated.

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About Automattic 

We are the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, Pocket Casts, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.

We’re a distributed company with more than 1700 Automatticians in 92 countries speaking 110+ different languages. And, even more than growth and profitability (although we’re plenty profitable), above all, we’re driven by a mission:  We democratize publishing and commerce so anyone with a story can tell it, and anyone with a product can sell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or country.

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