Senior Creative Strategy Lead — Winning Brand Pitches

Autumn Communications; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

401(k) Savings Plan

Unlimited Paid Time Off (Personal, S I

Summer Fridays

Job summary

Autumn Communications in New York City and beyond seeks a creative strategist to lead RFPs and new business pitches. You will own the strategic vision from brief to final deck, bridging creative, strategy, and business development with a culture-forward, insight-driven approach.

With 10-14 years in strategy, agency copy, or deck-building, you’ll craft punchy narratives and win on multi-channel campaigns, while coaching teams and standardizing pitch tools across the agency.

Qualifications

• Experience in strategy, agency copy, or deck-building.
• Proven track record of architecting winning PR or integrated marketing decks under tight deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Structure narrative arcs for client pitches from challenge to insight, strategy, and execution.
• Deconstruct RFPs to surface opportunities and define campaign hook and cultural angle.
• Distill market trends into actionable insights that anchor the creative approach.
• Craft concise narrative lines and value propositions for multi-channel strategies.
• Lead brainstorms with PR, social, influencer, and media strategists to generate concepts.
• Translate ideas into concrete, pitch-ready activation plans with deliverables and outcomes.
• Ensure concepts map to client objectives and agency KPIs.
• Prep and coach leads before pitches for a unified team voice.
• Build and curate a library of slide templates and credential decks.
• Standardize pitch production workflow with repeatable briefing guidelines.

Skills

Strategy development

Narrative writing

Storytelling

Client-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing or communications

Tools

Keynote

Google Slides

PowerPoint

Job description

Autumn Communications in New York City and beyond seeks a creative strategist to lead RFPs and new business pitches. You will own the strategic vision from brief to final deck, bridging creative, strategy, and business development with a culture-forward, insight-driven approach.

With 10-14 years in strategy, agency copy, or deck-building, you’ll craft punchy narratives and win on multi-channel campaigns, while coaching teams and standardizing pitch tools across the agency.