Semafor

Semafor

Senior Creative Strategist

New York, NY · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$115k-$135kDetected 110 days ago
Project ManagementSalesResearchLeadershipCommunicationPublic SpeakingOrganizational SkillsMicrosoft Office

About the role

  • This role will work closely with other Creative Strategists on the team as well as the Sales team, Revenue Operations team, and broader marketing teams.

Responsibilities

  • In this role, you will be expected to understand your clients' priorities and challenges, and authoritatively operationalize cross-functional processes to develop best-in-class presentations and proposal deliverables.
  • Create and visually design thoughtful, strategic, and engaging proposals, typically in visual presentation format, that clearly and concisely communicate ideas/concepts that map back to key advertiser objectives and KPIs.
  • Be a subject matter expert on Semafor's brand and products. Understand and build on Semafor's brand story on behalf of clients.
  • Utilize research and data to articulate and support strategies and creative ideas.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to generate revenue through marketing strategies.
  • Must have advanced skills with Google Workspace and Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Google Slides/Powerpoint.

Nice to have

  • Be a subject matter expert on Semafor's brand and products.
  • Engage with genuine curiosity and interest in deeply understanding clients' brand challenges, priorities, and objectives.
  • Show a clear and convincing connection between a client's brand challenge and proposed partnership solutions.
  • Leverage a solid understanding of the media landscape, including expertise in new and emerging media platforms as well as off-platform opportunities, to elevate the ideas we present to clients.
  • Work directly with Semafor leadership on high-profile C-Suite pitches and presentations.
  • Demonstrate strong presentation skills in both internal and external client meetings - articulating strategic ideas with clarity and confidence, and representing the Semafor brand with polish and authority.
  • Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 4-6 years of experience in advertiser marketing or sales.

Skills

  • Excellent communication, design, presentation and interpersonal skills.

Compensation

  • $115K-$135K base annual salary. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

Benefits

  • Semafor offers a Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy to our full-time, salaried employees who may take paid time off as-needed without a prescribed limit or defined balance.

Company info

  • Semafor is a global news platform for an increasingly complex world in which consumers are overwhelmed by too many news sources and unsure what to trust.
  • We are building Semafor to enable world-class journalists to deliver reporting and insights with rigor in journalistic forms that ensure a new level of transparency.
  • Our editors and reporters distill the most important stories from all over in formats that uncover the forces shaping the stories, explain the interests behind polarizing narratives, and replenish the stock of shared facts.
  • As a global platform, Semafor recognizes that smart people can disagree and that informed readers need to understand alternative points of view from competing centers of power and culture in a multi-polar world.
  • Take a lead role, driving processes and operationalizing the organization with sales leads and post-sale teams, ensuring consistency in pre-to post-sale transition.
  • Lead brainstorms both internally with cross-functional teams, client partnership leads, agencies, and clients to clarify asks, gather critical intel, and craft winning proposals.
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Equal opportunity

  • Semafor, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

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