Creative Strategist

Voodoo; United States; Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full remote for abroad

Hybrid in France

Relocation to Paris

Competitive salary

Job summary

Voodoo is seeking a Creative Strategist to join its Growth team, shaping the creative vision for a portfolio of games and apps. You will translate insights into clear briefs, guide strategic ideation, and drive performance through benchmarked creative decisions.

You will collaborate with Creative Leads, Producers, and Data to scale learnings, optimize campaigns, and recruit talent where needed. This role offers remote flexibility with in-France hybrid options.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar role, strategy consulting, or product/creative marketing.
• Ability to envision, articulate, and document compelling creative strategies.
• Strong skills in strategic planning, market analysis, and insight generation.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the creative vision and strategy per game/app in collaboration with Creative Leads.
• Generate structured, insight-driven creative briefs based on benchmark analysis and market intelligence.
• Define guidelines, priorities, and execution standards of production weekly.
• Conduct benchmarks using internal tools and third-party platforms to identify high-performing creative trends early.
• Analyze top-performing competitor creatives and extract actionable insights for ideation.
• Benchmark across mobile games and apps to inform direction and creative briefs.
• Collaborate with Leads, Producers, and Data Team to adopt benchmarks and scale learnings.
• Audit and improve existing creative workflows and propose strategic enhancements.
• Identify skill gaps and participate in sourcing and recruitment of new talent.

Skills

Creative strategy

Benchmarking

Data analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

MarketIQ

Apptica

Data.ai

Job description

About Voodoo

Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.

Team

Our Growth team helps maximize the potential of each Voodoo product within the ecosystem. Our Growth team is split into several job expertise such as user acquisition, ad monetization, video ads, playable ads, and influencer marketers. Being part of the Growth Team at Voodoo requires a lot of operational excellence and creativity in order to constantly adapt ourselves to stay ahead of the rest of the market.

Role

Voodoo is looking for a Creative Strategist to join its Creative team, which produces performance-driven ad creatives to attract new users and optimize campaign impact. You will drive the creative vision and strategic direction across our entire portfolio of games and apps—identifying trends, guiding creative decisions, and helping turn great mobile products into global hits. You’ll also be responsible for transforming strategic insights into clear, actionable creative briefs rooted in benchmarking and ideation, enabling Creative Leads and Producers to execute with clarity and impact.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the creative vision and strategy per game/app in collaboration with Creative Leads.

• Generate structured, insight-driven creative briefs based on your benchmark analysis, market intelligence, and strategic ideation frameworks.

• Define guidelines, priorities, and execution standards of the production on a weekly basis.

• Conduct and continuously update extensive benchmarks by leveraging internal tools and third-party platforms (e.g., MarketIQ, Apptica, Data.ai) to identify high-performing creative trends early.

• Analyze and deconstruct top-performing competitor creatives, providing actionable insights and storytelling patterns to inform ideation.

• Benchmark across both mobile games (e.g. Match-3, Hypercasual, Hybridcasual) and apps (e.g. Blitz, Wizz, WeMoms, and future products).

• Collaborate with Creative Leads, Producers, and the Data Team to ensure effective adoption of benchmarks, streamline reporting, and scale creative learnings across teams.

• Audit and improve existing creative workflows and propose strategic enhancements to maximize output and creative impact.

• Identify skill gaps in the creative team (e.g. motion design, 3D animation) and actively participate in sourcing and recruitment of new creative talent.

Profile

• Proven experience in a similar role, strategy consulting, or product/creative marketing.

• Ability to envision, articulate, and document compelling creative strategies.

• Strong skills in strategic planning, market analysis, and insight generation to align creative direction with user acquisition goals.

• Confident in using analytics and benchmarking tools to interpret data, draw insights, and optimize performance.

• Strong creative ideation skills to turn insights into powerful hypotheses and ideas

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills—capable of crafting clear briefs, persuasive recommendations, and actionable plans.

• Collaborative spirit and strong ability to challenge the status quo in a constructive and forward-thinking way.

• Fast learner with a versatile mindset, eager to innovate and iterate.

• Demonstrated track record of leading high-impact, cross-functional projects.

• You thrive in an environment that values candor, freedom, and responsibility.

Benefits

Competitive salary and other benefits according to the country you reside in.

Full remote for candidates based abroad, with relocation to Paris subject to discussion. Hybrid for candidates based in France.