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HelloFresh's paid social engine is being rebuilt around one principle: creative is now the largest performance lever across every channel we run. This role leads that workflow globally. You own creative strategy across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, for HF entities and brands (HelloFresh, Factor, Green Chef, EveryPlate, YouFoodz), turning customer insights and performance data into the ideas that help people discover and choose our products.
This is a hands-on builder role. You set the global creative strategy and direction, and oversee your team's execution against the plans: reviewing briefs, building the volume plan and global playbook, owning content localization, and building the content pipelines for new channels. You will also hire and lead the strategists who execute day to day. You don't run paid media.
You bring a portfolio of performance creative that has won at scale, business sense to connect creative choices to customer behavior, and the ownership mindset to move fast and decide with imperfect information.
You will…
- Global creative strategy: Set the paid social creative strategy and testing roadmap across all markets and channels, ensuring creative drives both business results and brand consistency. Define the monthly balance of net new concepts to iterations, and hold each market to it.
- Emerging platforms: Set the creative strategy for emerging platforms and formats, and build the pipeline to produce for them.
- Volume planning: Own team volume planning across all creative sources globally, including the internal studio, influencer partners, and agencies. Set volume from channel budgets and goals, set weekly brief and concept targets, and track the approved backlog against them.
- Brief standards: Own the brief standard for static, video, UGC, and partnership ads. Every brief must be grounded in customer insight, a clear hypothesis, and measurable success criteria. Approve briefs for global and high-spend markets, and set the bar local teams must meet.
- Creative pipeline: Own the pipeline from concept to production partner, matching each brief to the right source. Hit volume and timing targets without losing creative diversity.
- Performance ownership: Own creative win rate and creative volume for paid social channels, and contribute to lowering CPAs.
- Localization: Own the global-to-local process for creative. Partner with local teams to adapt global concepts for each market while keeping them on brand and compliant with local claims.
- Performance-to-creative loop: Own the weekly read from ad-level data (CTR, hook rate, hold rate, CVR by cohort) into the next sprint's briefs. Decide what to scale, iterate, and retire.
- Global playbook and reporting: Own global creative reporting across markets, and maintain a shared playbook so what works in one market scales to the others.
- Performance reviews: Lead a recurring creative performance review with Growth, Brand, and senior leadership covering wins, key learnings, strategic pivots, and new growth opportunities.
- Format and channel diversity: Drive the shift toward video-first, UGC-style, partnership, and creator-led ads, including Reels and Spark Ads, across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.
- Quality bar: Push back on first drafts, defend hooks, and kill weak openers. You set the taste standard for the whole team and help improve the quality of creative.
- Team leadership: Hire, develop, and lead the creative strategists across markets. Set clear scope and standards, and give direct feedback on briefs and concepts.
- Partner management: Own relationships with creative agencies and influencer partners, including scope, quality, and cost.
- AI-supported workflows: Work with Ad Tech to embed AI and automation into briefing and production to build autonomous creative workflows that enhance the creative pipeline.
- Stakeholder management: Align Brand, Growth, Influencer, and regional leads on creative priorities.
You are…
- Someone with a strong creative instinct paired with deep data fluency: you read ad performance data yourself, find the patterns, and let evidence lead creative decisions.
- Able to defend a concept and know how to fix it when it doesn't perform.
- Able to connect creative decisions to customer behavior, business performance, and long-term brand growth.
- Of a strong ownership mindset: you move quickly, make decisions with imperfect information, and keep iterating based on performance.
- Comfortable steering senior peers across Brand, Growth, and external partners without direct authority.
You have…
- A portfolio of performance creative that has won at scale on paid social, with the data and customer insight behind each win.
- 7+ years in paid social or performance creative strategy, including 3+ years leading creative strategy teams at a high-spend D2C, subscription, or performance-led brand. Multi-market experience is strongly preferred.
- Direct experience briefing and reviewing UGC, creator content, and short-form video at volume. Non-negotiable.
- Proven track record building and developing a team of strategists, and setting standards across markets.
- Experience planning volume across internal and external creative sources, and running global reporting.
- Hands-on experience working with editors, producers, and creators. Motion, Smartly, or similar creative analytics tools are a plus.
- Clear understanding of Meta's Andromeda-era delivery and Advantage+ campaigns, and how creative diversity shapes briefing. Working knowledge of TikTok and YouTube formats.
- Experience managing agency and vendor relationships and budgets.
You'll get…
- Competitive salary, 401k with company match that vests immediately upon participation
- Generous PTO, including sabbatical, and parental leave of up to 16 weeks
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits with options at $0 monthly, effective first day of employment
- Tuition reimbursement for continuing education (upon 2 years of service)
- Up to 85% discount on subscriptions to HelloFresh meal plans (HelloFresh, Green Chef, Everyplate, and Factor_)
- Access to Employee Resource Groups that are open to all employees, including those pertaining to BIPOC, women, veterans, parents, and LGBTQ+
- Inclusive, collaborative, and dynamic work environment within a fast-paced, mission-driven company that is disrupting the traditional food supply chain
This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the responsibilities. However, the Company reserves the right to adjust, modify, or reassign work tasks and responsibilities as needed to meet changing business needs, operational requirements, or other factors.
HelloFresh's paid social engine is being rebuilt around one principle: creative is now the largest performance lever across every channel we run. This role leads that workflow globally. You own creative strategy across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, for HF entities and brands (HelloFresh, Factor, Green Chef, EveryPlate, YouFoodz), turning customer insights and performance data into the ideas that help people discover and choose our products.
This is a hands-on builder role. You set the global creative strategy and direction, and oversee your team's execution against the plans: reviewing briefs, building the volume plan and global playbook, owning content localization, and building the content pipelines for new channels. You will also hire and lead the strategists who execute day to day. You don't run paid media.
You bring a portfolio of performance creative that has won at scale, business sense to connect creative choices to customer behavior, and the ownership mindset to move fast and decide with imperfect information.
You will…
- Global creative strategy: Set the paid social creative strategy and testing roadmap across all markets and channels, ensuring creative drives both business results and brand consistency. Define the monthly balance of net new concepts to iterations, and hold each market to it.
- Emerging platforms: Set the creative strategy for emerging platforms and formats, and build the pipeline to produce for them.
- Volume planning: Own team volume planning across all creative sources globally, including the internal studio, influencer partners, and agencies. Set volume from channel budgets and goals, set weekly brief and concept targets, and track the approved backlog against them.
- Brief standards: Own the brief standard for static, video, UGC, and partnership ads. Every brief must be grounded in customer insight, a clear hypothesis, and measurable success criteria. Approve briefs for global and high-spend markets, and set the bar local teams must meet.
- Creative pipeline: Own the pipeline from concept to production partner, matching each brief to the right source. Hit volume and timing targets without losing creative diversity.
- Performance ownership: Own creative win rate and creative volume for paid social channels, and contribute to lowering CPAs.
- Localization: Own the global-to-local process for creative. Partner with local teams to adapt global concepts for each market while keeping them on brand and compliant with local claims.
- Performance-to-creative loop: Own the weekly read from ad-level data (CTR, hook rate, hold rate, CVR by cohort) into the next sprint's briefs. Decide what to scale, iterate, and retire.
- Global playbook and reporting: Own global creative reporting across markets, and maintain a shared playbook so what works in one market scales to the others.
- Performance reviews: Lead a recurring creative performance review with Growth, Brand, and senior leadership covering wins, key learnings, strategic pivots, and new growth opportunities.
- Format and channel diversity: Drive the shift toward video-first, UGC-style, partnership, and creator-led ads, including Reels and Spark Ads, across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.
- Quality bar: Push back on first drafts, defend hooks, and kill weak openers. You set the taste standard for the whole team and help improve the quality of creative.
- Team leadership: Hire, develop, and lead the creative strategists across markets. Set clear scope and standards, and give direct feedback on briefs and concepts.
- Partner management: Own relationships with creative agencies and influencer partners, including scope, quality, and cost.
- AI-supported workflows: Work with Ad Tech to embed AI and automation into briefing and production to build autonomous creative workflows that enhance the creative pipeline.
- Stakeholder management: Align Brand, Growth, Influencer, and regional leads on creative priorities.
You are…
- Someone with a strong creative instinct paired with deep data fluency: you read ad performance data yourself, find the patterns, and let evidence lead creative decisions.
- Able to defend a concept and know how to fix it when it doesn't perform.
- Able to connect creative decisions to customer behavior, business performance, and long-term brand growth.
- Of a strong ownership mindset: you move quickly, make decisions with imperfect information, and keep iterating based on performance.
- Comfortable steering senior peers across Brand, Growth, and external partners without direct authority.
You have…
- A portfolio of performance creative that has won at scale on paid social, with the data and customer insight behind each win.
- 7+ years in paid social or performance creative strategy, including 3+ years leading creative strategy teams at a high-spend D2C, subscription, or performance-led brand. Multi-market experience is strongly preferred.
- Direct experience briefing and reviewing UGC, creator content, and short-form video at volume. Non-negotiable.
- Proven track record building and developing a team of strategists, and setting standards across markets.
- Experience planning volume across internal and external creative sources, and running global reporting.
- Hands-on experience working with editors, producers, and creators. Motion, Smartly, or similar creative analytics tools are a plus.
- Clear understanding of Meta's Andromeda-era delivery and Advantage+ campaigns, and how creative diversity shapes briefing. Working knowledge of TikTok and YouTube formats.
- Experience managing agency and vendor relationships and budgets.
You'll get…
- Competitive salary, 401k with company match that vests immediately upon participation
- Generous PTO, including sabbatical, and parental leave of up to 16 weeks
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits with options at $0 monthly, effective first day of employment
- Tuition reimbursement for continuing education (upon 2 years of service)
- Up to 85% discount on subscriptions to HelloFresh meal plans (HelloFresh, Green Chef, Everyplate, and Factor_)
- Access to Employee Resource Groups that are open to all employees, including those pertaining to BIPOC, women, veterans, parents, and LGBTQ+
- Inclusive, collaborative, and dynamic work environment within a fast-paced, mission-driven company that is disrupting the traditional food supply chain
This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the responsibilities. However, the Company reserves the right to adjust, modify, or reassign work tasks and responsibilities as needed to meet changing business needs, operational requirements, or other factors.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of creative strategy jobs.
- 8 or more years of experience in brand, creative, or content strategy roles
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop creative teams across disciplines
- Experience developing integrated campaigns across digital, social, and traditional channels
- Strong presentation skills and comfort communicating strategy to executive stakeholders
- Proficiency with project management and creative workflow tools such as Asana or similar platforms
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, design, or a related field
Tips for Your Director of Creative Strategy Job Search
Align your portfolio to business outcomes
Hiring panels for director of creative strategy roles want to see how your campaigns moved a metric, not just how they looked. Annotate each portfolio case with the brief, your strategic rationale, and a measurable result tied to revenue, awareness, or retention.
Show cross-functional leadership on your resume
Directors of creative strategy are expected to align brand, product, and marketing teams. Rewrite your bullets to show who you influenced and how decisions changed, not just what deliverables you owned. Vague ownership language is the most common resume gap at this level.
Target openings by budget authority not just title
Job postings for this role vary widely. Filter for listings that mention owning a creative budget or leading an agency relationship, since those signal real strategic scope. Coordinator-heavy descriptions dressed up as director titles are common and worth skipping.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of creative strategy openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a whiteboard exercise for final rounds
Many companies at this level include a live strategy brief or creative challenge in final interviews. Practice presenting a brand positioning framework in 20 minutes with no prep materials, because that format tests how you think under pressure, not just how polished your deck is.
Negotiate scope before negotiating compensation
Before accepting an offer, clarify whether you'll have final creative authority or advisory input only. Title inflation is common in this space, and a director with no sign-off power is structurally a senior manager. Getting scope in writing protects your career trajectory.
Director of Creative Strategy Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of creative strategys?
Sony, suno, and Fanatics are hiring the most director of creative strategys right now, with openings concentrated in California, New York, and Florida, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is highest at large consumer brands, agency holding companies, and technology platforms with in-house creative functions.
How many director of creative strategy jobs are remote?
About 96% of director of creative strategy openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how often the role depends on cross-functional collaboration rather than a physical studio presence. Content strategy and digital campaign-focused positions tend to offer the most location flexibility, while roles tied to production or agency client services more often require in-office attendance.
How do you become a director of creative strategy?
Most directors of creative strategy move up through brand management, creative agencies, or content and campaign teams, building a portfolio of strategic work before stepping into leadership. The path typically runs from strategist or senior strategist to group or associate director, with each step adding budget ownership, team management, and executive stakeholder exposure. A strong portfolio that connects creative decisions to business results accelerates the transition more than credentials alone.
Can you get hired as a director of creative strategy without direct experience in the title?
Yes, candidates coming from closely adjacent roles such as brand director, creative director, or head of content are regularly hired into director of creative strategy positions when their portfolio demonstrates strategic ownership rather than just execution. The key is framing your experience around positioning decisions, audience insights, and cross-functional influence rather than deliverable counts. Titles matter less than evidence that you have driven creative direction at a meaningful scale.
What does the director of creative strategy interview process look like?
The process typically includes an initial recruiter screen, followed by interviews with the VP of marketing or CMO and at least one cross-functional peer such as a product or brand leader. Most companies at this level include a strategic brief or case study exercise, which may be take-home or presented live. Final rounds often include a panel with creative team members who will report to the role, since cultural and leadership fit weighs heavily at this level.
Where can I find and apply to director of creative strategy jobs?
You can find and apply to director of creative strategy jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your specialization and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing that fits your background and goals.
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