Forward Deployed Creative Strategist

Hightouch; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hightouch is seeking its first Forward Deployed Creative Strategist to bridge our agentic marketing platform with world-class brands. You will educate performance marketers on the shift to agentic workflows and guide pilots from first talks to successful pilots.

Reporting into the Solutions Success organization, you’ll pair deep marketing expertise with sales acumen, define pilot criteria, and collaborate with Creative Designers to ensure AI-generated assets drive conversion and adoption.

Responsibilities

• Engage with performance marketing teams at top-tier companies.
• Define pilot success criteria and drive pilots to closed-won deals.
• Bridge data and creative with AI-generated assets for conversion.
• Shape the go-to-market motion and educational frameworks for new custom initiatives.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Communication

Sales acumen

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

About Hightouch

Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works.

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible.

Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, Cars.com, Ramp, and PetSmart.

At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses. The team is ambitious, impact-driven, efficient — and we believe humility, kindness, and compassion are essential to our success. If you're energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we'd love to meet you.

Why Hightouch?

Here, you will be at the forefront of the next evolution of MarTech. You’ll have the autonomy to shape a massive new product category while working alongside a world-class team and some of the most forward-thinking consumer brands in the world.

The Role

We are looking for our first Forward Deployed Creative Strategistto act as the crucial bridge between our cutting-edge agentic platform and the world’s most innovative brands. Reporting into the Solutions Success organization, you will be a zero-to-one foundational member of the team. You will speak peer-to-peer with performance marketing leaders, educating them on the paradigm shift toward agentic marketing systems, and guiding them through successful pilots. You will pair your deep marketing expertise with innate sales acumen to navigate complex buying processes and drive adoption.

What You’ll Do

• Act as a Strategic Peer: Engage with performance marketing teams at top-tier, innovative companies. You will speak their language, understand their current attribution and campaign scaling challenges, and educate them on how agentic workflows can transform their operations.
• Drive Deals Pilots: Partner closely with our sales organization to navigate complex enterprise buying processes. You will be instrumental in defining pilot success criteria and driving those pilots forward to closed-won deals.
• Collaborate with Creative: Work hand-in-hand with our Forward Deployed Creative Designers. You will bridge the gap between performance data and creative execution, ensuring that AI-generated assets (utilizing the latest generation models like Veo and Nano Banana 2) are optimized for conversion and pilot success.
• Shape the Playbook: As the first person in this role, you will help design the go-to-market motion, define the educational frameworks we use for new custom