Creative Lead

About the Role At WITHIN, we champion growth, innovation, and forward-thinking creativity. We’re seeking a Creative Lead who can ideate, design, and craft compelling digital narratives for our clients. You’ll play a pivotal role in bringing ideas to life across paid and organic social, branded content, and digital campaigns. This role is ideal for a versatile, collaborative creative who thrives in both design and production, balancing executional excellence with strategic storytelling.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Content Ideation & Execution: Lead the creative process from brainstorm to final delivery across digital and social platforms. Develop campaign concepts, design assets, and guide production to align with client goals.
• Art Direction & Design: Design and direct visually cohesive content, including static, motion, and interactive formats. Ensure creative aligns with brand identity and campaign strategy.
• Production Support: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan and oversee shoots. Manage asset creation, from shot lists and styling to post-production edits.
• Trend Awareness: Track emerging digital and social trends, bringing fresh ideas to campaigns and proactively evolving creative approaches.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Work closely with clients, strategists, and creative peers to deliver polished campaigns. Provide mentorship and direction to junior designers and freelance contributors.
• Project Management: Balance multiple deliverables at once, ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality standards are met.

Requirements

• 3–5 years experience in creative roles (digital design, art direction, branded content, or social campaigns).
• Strong design portfolio showcasing work across digital, social, and integrated campaigns.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro), Figma, and motion graphics tools.
• Hands-on experience with photo and video production, including set planning, styling, and post-production.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects at once.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with clients and internal teams.

Nice-to-Haves

• Generative AI experience (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT).
• Experience creating interactive content (Ceros, Webflow, or similar platforms).
• Background in food & beverage, fashion, or retail content production.
• Advanced retouching skills or styling/set design capabilities.

Our interview process includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Excel knowledge and Typing Test

We offer a competitive salary and benefits based on education, experience, and skills level, including: 

• Unlimited vacation policy
• Monthly Phone Stipend
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance options
• 401(K) plan with matching
• Dog friendly office
• Hybrid work opportunity
• Professional Development Program
• Bonus Perk - Seamless allowance

Total compensation based on education, experience, and skills level ($67,500-$176,000)

• Level 1 - $67,500-$89,200
  
  • Entry Level - Meets qualifications on a minimum basis
• Level 2 - $89,200-$110,900
  
  • Junior level - Exceeds qualifications on a moderate basis
• Level 3 - $110,900-$132,600
  
  • Middle Level - Exceeds qualifications on a strong basis
• Level 4 - $132,600-$154,300
  
  • Advanced Level - Exceeds qualifications on an extensive or advanced basis
• Level 5 - $154,300-$176,000
  
  • Senior Level - Exceeds qualifications on an outstanding basis

About WITHIN & Brkfst.io

WITHIN is the world's first Performance Branding company, partnering with some of the biggest brands in the world to drive business growth through innovative marketing strategies. Our integrated operating model collapses the traditional marketing silos between creative and media, performance and brand, and across media channels. With a full suite of offerings including media, creative, SEO, Lifecycle, Retail Media, Affiliate and Influencer, we’re able to work with our brand partners in an integrated fashion, allowing us to align marketing strategies back to core business objectives. Client teams at WITHIN are trained on how to always act as a trusted business partner, acting as a fiduciary to client needs above our own.

Teams at WITHIN have the ability to work with iconic brands such as The North Face, Timberland, Ben and Jerry's and Jose Cuervo. Everyone at WITHIN wants to grow and be challenged. It’s a collaborative place made up of small, closely knit and versatile teams that are fast and adaptive to solve problems and build systems.

Check out some of our work!

Brkfst.io is an incubated venture within WITHIN, focused on connecting creators with major brands to produce impactful ads at scale.

We are, and we connect creators with big brands to make impactful ads at scale. We have a network of thousands of content creators with a variety of different skill-sets, and we’re looking to build a program that empowers them to create great ads for brands like Corkcicle, Perfume.com, Casper Mattresses, & more!

This is a very ambitious project and our roadmap is full of exciting features, so we’re looking for people who love innovation and want to be challenged. We’re a small team of scrappy individuals who are growing fast, and we’re looking for someone to grow with us.

We weave AI into everything we do, using the latest tech across all teams to innovate, work smarter, and make better decisions. Whether it’s in creative, operations, or anything else, AI helps us level up and do things at a whole new scale. We expect our people to use AI in their daily work, fully embracing it as a critical tool to help us succeed.