Senior Creative Strategist

SolComms; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonuses

Monthly commissions for new business

Employer-sponsored medical, dental, &

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid work schedule

Mentorship program

Strong culture

Job summary

SolComms, an award-winning integrated communications agency for startups and scale-ups, seeks a Senior Creative Strategist to shape brand narratives and lead culture-first campaigns across social and experiential formats.

You'll mentor junior talent, partner with strategy and production teams, and translate cultural insight into compelling copy, ensuring output is on-brand, timely, and authentic.

This role combines leadership, creativity, and strategic storytelling in a fast-paced agency setting.

Qualifications

• 4–6+ years in creative roles, ideally in an agency environment.
• A portfolio showing earned-first thinking and cultural traction.
• Deep platform fluency on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X.
• Experience building brand voice systems and tone-of-voice guides.
• Strong client presence and ability to guide conversations to decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead culture-first campaign concepts from brief to execution.
• Anticipate client needs and identify opportunities for strategic creative moments.
• Guide junior team members through ideation and concept development.
• Present big ideas to clients and translate strategy into clear narratives.
• Balance speed with strategy to participate in cultural moments with authenticity.
• Write across formats (taglines, scripts, captions, calendars) in a brand voice.
• Oversee copy across campaigns, real-time moments, and digital touchpoints.
• Develop tone-of-voice guidelines and social playbooks.
• Mentor junior creatives and raise team craft.

Skills

Copywriting

Campaign concepts

Cultural strategy

Platform fluency

Brand voice

Mentoring

Client presentation

Collaboration

Job description

SolComms, an award-winning integrated communications agency for startups and scale-ups at the intersection of corporate and consumer communications, is seeking a Senior Creative Strategist. In this role, you'll serve as a senior creative voice and cultural partner across accounts, own campaign concepts, shape brand narratives, and help clients show up meaningfully in culture. You'll work closely with internal teams and clients alike, mentoring junior talent while driving the quality and ambition of the work.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead the development of culture-first campaign concepts across social, experiential, and integrated formats from brief to execution.
• Anticipate client needs and identify opportunities for strategic creative moments, from always-on content to larger-scale activations.
• Guide junior team members through the ideation of big-picture ideas, offering insight into what makes a concept travel.
• Actively present big ideas to clients; translate strategy and cultural insight into clear, compelling narratives.
• Balance speed with strategy to help brands participate in cultural moments with authenticity and creative integrity.
• Write across formats (taglines, scripts, manifestos, captions, pitch decks, and content calendars) with a voice that adapts to each brand and always lands.
• Oversee copy across integrated campaigns, real-time reactive moments, scripted video series, and digital touchpoints.
• Build and evolve brand voice systems for clients, including tone-of-voice guidelines, messaging frameworks, and social playbooks.
• Approve creative materials and ensure all output feels native, timely, and on-brand.
• Directly support and mentor junior creatives from feedback on copy to guidance on creative thinking and professional growth.
• Instill confidence in team members; empower them to bring stronger, more ambitious work to every project.
• Serve as a sounding board for junior talent; help improve their workflows, sharpen their instincts, and raise their craft.

Here’s what you bring:

• 4 - 6+ years in creative roles with a strong foundation in copywriting, campaign concepts, and cultural strategy ideally in an agency environment.
• A portfolio demonstrating earned-first thinking: ideas that drove real cultural traction, writing that landed, campaigns that scaled.
• Deep platform fluency (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, and emerging channels) with an instinct for what works natively on each.
• Experience building or contributing to brand voice systems, messaging frameworks, or tone-of-voice guides.
• Strong client presence: you can read a room, present a vision, and guide a conversation toward a decision.
• Collaborative working style where you partner fluidly with strategy, design, social, and production teams.
• Experience mentoring or developing junior creatives in a professional setting.

Here’s what you’ll get:

• Annual bonuses; monthly commissions for new business you sign
• 100% employer sponsored medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Unlimited PTO
• Hybrid work schedule (Monday - Thursday: in office, Friday: work from anywhere)
• Mentorship: we firmly believe in the importance of taking time to connect outside of daily tasks to help build and grow our team - both personally and professionally. That's why we emphasize mentorship - ensuring all employees have a direct line to senior leadership to learn and grow
• Strong Culture: we're a tight-knit, collaborative team that works hard and likes to have a good time!