Remote Director of Creative Strategy Jobs
Remote Director of Creative Strategy jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first companies and distributed marketing teams hiring for this role in sectors like technology, media, and consumer brands. Employers hiring remotely right now include Fanatics, Advantage HQ, and Tinuiti. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Primary Focus:
As Senior Manager, Performance Creative Strategy at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you are responsible for shaping the strategic priorities, audience opportunities and learning agenda behind Fanatics Markets performance creative. You'll uncover the hooks, angles and fan insights most likely to resonate, translate them into clear, inspiring briefs for the internal creative team, and track performance to understand what works and why. This role connects fan insight, creative development and performance results, ensuring learnings continuously inform future briefs across acquisition, engagement and retention. Markets and Sportsbook share many of the same fans, moments and creative systems, so you'll work in close partnership with the OSB Performance Creative team to align priorities, share learnings and avoid duplicating effort.
This is a six-month contract role reporting to the Senior Director, Performance Creative & GTM.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the Markets performance creative strategy across paid social, app networks, CTV, affiliates and lifecycle, aligned with business priorities, audience insight and brand positioning.
- Build and maintain the Markets creative variation framework, mapping hooks, angles, reasons to believe, formats and offers to audience and funnel stage.
- Translate business objectives and fan insight into clear, inspiring briefs for the internal creative team, including messaging territories, hook hypotheses, angles and iteration briefs.
- Own the Markets testing agenda, defining what we want to learn, how we measure a win, and which tests run each month.
- Run a high-velocity testing program across hooks, openers, formats, offers and creators, improving hit rate and speed to learning.
- Partner with Media and Analytics to track creative performance, identify winners and fatigue early, and apply learnings to the next round of briefs.
- Write concise test readouts and maintain a living library of what works for Markets audiences, shared with the OSB team so learnings travel across both products.
- Identify performance territories, audience tensions and messaging opportunities to support creative briefs.
- Support brand and full-funnel campaign briefs with clear performance requirements, working with Integrated Marketing and Media so channel, audience, format and measurement needs are set before creative development begins. Partner with the Creative Studio to translate those requirements into effective creative, with the Studio retaining ownership of creative direction and execution.
- Advise Brand and agency partners on hooks, edits, cutdowns, aspect ratios and platform-native versions, so big campaign moments carry through to always-on performance and lifecycle.
- Source fan insight, competitor ad libraries, creator content and platform trends to identify new angles and white space.
- Contribute a strong performance POV to creative insight sessions and brainstorms, working closely with the Creative Studio.
- Share performance learnings and recommendations in GTM forums and monthly reviews.
What You'll Deliver in Six Months:
- A Markets testing agenda and monthly testing cadence, live within your first 30 days.
- A documented creative variation framework for Market.
- A shared testing and learnings rhythm with the OSB Performance Creative team.
- A steady flow of briefs, tests and written readouts, with winners scaled into the always-on mix.
- A learnings library and handover documentation so the work continues after the engagement ends.
How This Role Connects Across the Team:
- Partners closely with the OSB Performance Creative team on shared sport moments, audiences and testing, aligning briefs and calendars, pooling learnings, and adapting proven OSB creative for Market where it fits.
- Partners with the internal producer, who owns production timelines and delivery, to keep briefs, priorities and the content calendar aligned.
- Partners with the Creative Studio and Integrated Marketing to shape high-quality output, providing direction and feedback while respecting executional ownership.
- Partners with Brand and Integrated Marketing to embed performance best practice into campaigns, ensuring work is both distinctive and built to perform across the funnel.
- Partners with Media, Analytics and CRM to define success measures, read results and feed learnings back into strategy.
- Partners with the affiliate team on UGC briefs aligned to channel best practice.
- Works with Legal, Compliance and Creative Operations to keep all creative compliant and aligned with Responsible Gaming standards.
Skills & Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in creative strategy, performance creative or brand strategy, ideally within a fast-growing D2C brand, mobile app, sports, gaming or entertainment business.
- Portfolio demonstrating hook-led, insight-driven creative and the performance results behind it.
- Strong knowledge of platform-native creative across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Snap and app networks, including UGC and creator formats.
- Hands-on experience running creative testing programs at volume.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to read performance data and translate it into clear recommendations.
- Excellent storytelling and writing skills, from a 6-second hook to a campaign narrative to a performance readout.
- Experience working across matrixed teams and influencing work you don't directly own.
- Able to ramp quickly and deliver within a fixed-term engagement.
- Willingness to travel occasionally for team meetings and Fanatics events.
Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process.
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
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Fanatics will never ask candidates for money, banking information, or other sensitive personal information as part of the interview process. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Fanatics recruiting, please do not respond and report it here.
About Us
Primary Focus:
As Senior Manager, Performance Creative Strategy at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you are responsible for shaping the strategic priorities, audience opportunities and learning agenda behind Fanatics Markets performance creative. You'll uncover the hooks, angles and fan insights most likely to resonate, translate them into clear, inspiring briefs for the internal creative team, and track performance to understand what works and why. This role connects fan insight, creative development and performance results, ensuring learnings continuously inform future briefs across acquisition, engagement and retention. Markets and Sportsbook share many of the same fans, moments and creative systems, so you'll work in close partnership with the OSB Performance Creative team to align priorities, share learnings and avoid duplicating effort.
This is a six-month contract role reporting to the Senior Director, Performance Creative & GTM.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the Markets performance creative strategy across paid social, app networks, CTV, affiliates and lifecycle, aligned with business priorities, audience insight and brand positioning.
- Build and maintain the Markets creative variation framework, mapping hooks, angles, reasons to believe, formats and offers to audience and funnel stage.
- Translate business objectives and fan insight into clear, inspiring briefs for the internal creative team, including messaging territories, hook hypotheses, angles and iteration briefs.
- Own the Markets testing agenda, defining what we want to learn, how we measure a win, and which tests run each month.
- Run a high-velocity testing program across hooks, openers, formats, offers and creators, improving hit rate and speed to learning.
- Partner with Media and Analytics to track creative performance, identify winners and fatigue early, and apply learnings to the next round of briefs.
- Write concise test readouts and maintain a living library of what works for Markets audiences, shared with the OSB team so learnings travel across both products.
- Identify performance territories, audience tensions and messaging opportunities to support creative briefs.
- Support brand and full-funnel campaign briefs with clear performance requirements, working with Integrated Marketing and Media so channel, audience, format and measurement needs are set before creative development begins. Partner with the Creative Studio to translate those requirements into effective creative, with the Studio retaining ownership of creative direction and execution.
- Advise Brand and agency partners on hooks, edits, cutdowns, aspect ratios and platform-native versions, so big campaign moments carry through to always-on performance and lifecycle.
- Source fan insight, competitor ad libraries, creator content and platform trends to identify new angles and white space.
- Contribute a strong performance POV to creative insight sessions and brainstorms, working closely with the Creative Studio.
- Share performance learnings and recommendations in GTM forums and monthly reviews.
What You'll Deliver in Six Months:
- A Markets testing agenda and monthly testing cadence, live within your first 30 days.
- A documented creative variation framework for Market.
- A shared testing and learnings rhythm with the OSB Performance Creative team.
- A steady flow of briefs, tests and written readouts, with winners scaled into the always-on mix.
- A learnings library and handover documentation so the work continues after the engagement ends.
How This Role Connects Across the Team:
- Partners closely with the OSB Performance Creative team on shared sport moments, audiences and testing, aligning briefs and calendars, pooling learnings, and adapting proven OSB creative for Market where it fits.
- Partners with the internal producer, who owns production timelines and delivery, to keep briefs, priorities and the content calendar aligned.
- Partners with the Creative Studio and Integrated Marketing to shape high-quality output, providing direction and feedback while respecting executional ownership.
- Partners with Brand and Integrated Marketing to embed performance best practice into campaigns, ensuring work is both distinctive and built to perform across the funnel.
- Partners with Media, Analytics and CRM to define success measures, read results and feed learnings back into strategy.
- Partners with the affiliate team on UGC briefs aligned to channel best practice.
- Works with Legal, Compliance and Creative Operations to keep all creative compliant and aligned with Responsible Gaming standards.
Skills & Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in creative strategy, performance creative or brand strategy, ideally within a fast-growing D2C brand, mobile app, sports, gaming or entertainment business.
- Portfolio demonstrating hook-led, insight-driven creative and the performance results behind it.
- Strong knowledge of platform-native creative across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Snap and app networks, including UGC and creator formats.
- Hands-on experience running creative testing programs at volume.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to read performance data and translate it into clear recommendations.
- Excellent storytelling and writing skills, from a 6-second hook to a campaign narrative to a performance readout.
- Experience working across matrixed teams and influencing work you don't directly own.
- Able to ramp quickly and deliver within a fixed-term engagement.
- Willingness to travel occasionally for team meetings and Fanatics events.
Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process.
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
#li-JM3
By submitting your application, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our Candidate Privacy Policy.
Fanatics will never ask candidates for money, banking information, or other sensitive personal information as part of the interview process. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Fanatics recruiting, please do not respond and report it here.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote 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 Remote Director of Creative Strategy Job Search
Show async creative leadership in your portfolio
Remote employers want proof you can direct creative work without being in the room. Include case studies that show how you briefed, reviewed, and iterated on creative across distributed teams, naming the async tools you used like Loom, Notion, or Figma.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote director of creative strategy openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly. Applying in the first 48 hours of a posting significantly increases your chances of moving to a first screen.
Demonstrate written communication at director level
Remote creative leaders are judged heavily on how clearly they communicate direction and strategy in writing. Your application materials, including your cover letter and any work samples, should reflect the precision and voice you would bring to brand messaging and creative briefs.
Prepare for remote-specific interview formats
Many remote director of creative strategy interviews include an async video screen or a written creative brief exercise before you ever join a live call. Practicing concise, well-structured responses to scenario questions about leading distributed creative teams will set you apart.
Remote Director of Creative Strategy Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote director of creative strategy job?
Remote employers hiring directors of creative strategy look for candidates who can lead brand and content vision asynchronously, without relying on in-person check-ins. Strong written communication, the ability to give clear creative direction through Figma comments or Loom walkthroughs, and a portfolio showing campaign outcomes all matter. Experience managing distributed creative teams gives candidates a clear edge over those with only in-office backgrounds.
Which companies hire remote director of creative strategys?
Remote director of creative strategy roles are posted by Fanatics, Advantage HQ, and Tinuiti and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be remote-first technology companies, digital-native consumer brands, and distributed agency teams that run creative operations entirely online.
Can you get a remote director of creative strategy job with no experience?
Yes, but remote director of creative strategy roles at the entry level are harder to land because employers expect you to manage creative direction independently from day one. Early-career candidates can build toward these roles by leading freelance campaigns, contributing to distributed creative teams, or building a portfolio that demonstrates strategic thinking and measurable outcomes rather than just execution.
Do you need a degree for remote director of creative strategy jobs?
Not always. While many remote employers list a bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or design as preferred, what actually moves a director of creative strategy candidate forward is a portfolio of work showing creative leadership and business results. Remote employers in particular weight demonstrated ability to drive brand strategy and lead creative teams over formal credentials.
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