What are the responsibilities and job description for the Creative Strategist, adidas position at Archrival?
We are looking for a talented Creative Strategist with 4-6 years of experience to help ideate and execute retail, social, and activation plans for our clients. This role will translate brand or product campaigns into engaging experiences for consumers, brand ambassadors, and retail associates.
A successful candidate should be creatively driven, have a retail and sports marketing background, and understand storytelling across key consumer touch points: retail, events, and social.
Your Impact In The Role
Archrival stands to positively affect the diversity, equity, and inclusion of youth culture creatively. We are committed to fostering a place of belonging for underrepresented and marginalized communities. We are intentional of creating equal employment opportunities to all applicants and teammates in regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.
A successful candidate should be creatively driven, have a retail and sports marketing background, and understand storytelling across key consumer touch points: retail, events, and social.
Your Impact In The Role
- Generate ideas to support brand and product campaigns at retail and within local and sports communities, driving brand love and product sales through store associates and consumers.
- Translate brand and product campaigns into creative tactics that span retail, digital, social, and IRL activation channels, leveraging a network of national brand ambassadors to execute locally.
- Develop creative that addresses seasonal field marketing goals, can be executed at scale and remains in-budget.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to brainstorm creative solutions and executional details.
- Assist in defining the creative asset needs for projects (writing, video, design), and communicate these needs effectively to the team.
- Participate in campaign planning and assist in defining timelines, milestones, and deliverables to bring your ideas to life.
- Champion projects and assets through execution stages to uphold creative excellence, maintaining brand quality and consistency.
- Lead and contribute to the development of visually strong, compelling decks.
- Present work to clients to make sure they love it.
- Travel and be on location for certain activations or trainings (occasional).
- Strong understanding of marketing at retail with social and digital extensions.
- An affinity for creative ideation and love contributing unique ideas to brainstorms.
- Curious, energetic self-starter with an appetite for fresh, new approaches and ideas.
- Exceptional communicator who interacts with clients and colleagues in a positive and inspiring manner.
- Obsessed with details and creative excellence; experience in copywriting or art direction a plus.
- Desire to be a part of and add to the culture of Archrival.
- Undying passion for youth and consumer culture, with an affinity for sports culture.
- Desire to go against the grain and take on challenges that may have never been done before.
- Team first, remain humble, and never leave another Archrivaler hanging.
- Driven to excellence, committed to grinding out great work mixed with a playful point-of-view.
- Contribute to a community of belonging, our collective differences to make Archrival f'n awesome.
Archrival stands to positively affect the diversity, equity, and inclusion of youth culture creatively. We are committed to fostering a place of belonging for underrepresented and marginalized communities. We are intentional of creating equal employment opportunities to all applicants and teammates in regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.