Senior Creative Lead (Freelancer)
- Pay
- $22 – $95 per hour
- Location
- New York City, NY · On-site
- Job type
- Contract
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Listed
- 30 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe After Effects
- Figma
- studio photo and video production
Also useful
- Midjourney
- Stable Diffusion
- photo retouching
About the Role
At WITHIN, we champion growth, innovation, and forward-thinking creativity. Now, we're looking for a Senior Creative Lead who embodies this ethos: a talented, multidisciplinary creative who can ideate, design, and craft our clients' digital narratives. Boasting several years of experience in the realm of digital content creation with a strong digital ad portfolio, you know what it takes to grow brands through exciting, engaging, and beautiful content. We're looking for someone that's interested in pushing the boundaries to work in a lean structure and help grow both our clients as well as our team.
Key Responsibilities
- Performance-Focused Content Creation: Craft content with intent. From ideation to execution, you'll be charged with weaving out clients' visual identity, voice, and ethos into groundbreaking content, pushing engagement and metrics beyond set KPIs.
- Multifaceted Ideation and Creative Development: You'll brainstorm, concept, plan, produce, edit, and write copy for content within a lean structure to bring ideas to life.
- Trend Analysis & Application: Vigilantly monitor the digital sphere. Absorb emerging social trends, ensuring our content remains at the front of relevance and innovation. When a trend surfaces, you're already brainstorming how to adapt it to our unique brand narrative.
- Detail-Oriented Post-Production & Delivery: Ensure each content piece undergoes rigorous post-production process & QA. From video edits, image selection, retouching to quality checks, every detail matters.
- Operational Mastery: Command multiple projects. Adhere to tight schedules, and ensure an iterative approach, valuing feedback and refining accordingly.
Essential Qualifications
- Solid Track Record: 5-6 years experience, creating and producing paid and organic social content. Your portfolio should echo your proficiency.
- Technical Prowess: Deep knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects), Figma, and Capcut. Photo+Video Camera operations, audio recording nuances, and lighting techniques should be second nature to you.
- Strong Design Capabilities: Strong digital design portfolio, encompassing static and motion design across digital ad placements and campaigns
- Studio Proficiency: Over 3+ years planning/running in-studio shoots. This entails everything from setting up the perfect shot to ensuring the lighting captures our clients' energy.
- Intuitive Insights: A holistic grasp of the social media landscape is crucial. This entails understanding not just the emerging trends but the undercurrents shaping them.
- Versatility: Equally adept at team-based and solo projects. The ability to pivot between collaboration and independent endeavors is crucial.
- Rapid Adaptability: A dynamic environment isn't a challenge but an opportunity. This role demands proactive problem-solving and an innate drive.
- Excellent Communication Skills: The ability to communicate well with clients and internal stakeholders is a must.
- Production Budget Management: Ability to bid, forecast, keep a running total, and reconcile wrapped budgets for your shoots is a must.
Nice-to-haves
- Generative AI Experience: Proficiency in Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT a plus
- Retouching: Photo retouching a plus
- Styling & Set/Prop Design: Experience with wardrobe selection & curation, set design, prop selection and styling
- Food & Beverage Production: Experience generating content for food & beverage brands, particularly alcohol & spirits, that's awesome.
- Fashion/Retail Production: Experience generating content for retail and/or fashion brands definitely a plus as well.
We offer a competitive rate based on education, experience, and skills level ($22-$95)
- Level 1 - $22-$36
- Level 1 - Possesses essential capabilities.
- Level 2 - $36-$51
- Level 2 - Possesses developing capabilities.
- Level 3 - $51-$66
- Level 3 - Possesses notable capabilities.
- Level 4 - $66-$81
- Level 4 - Possesses strong capabilities.
- Level 5 - $81-$95
- Level 5 - Possesses advanced capabilities.
As this is a freelancer role, hours can fluctuate weekly.
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AI-Assisted Screening Notice
As part of our initial application review process, we may use an AI-assisted tool to help compare skills and job titles from your resume with the requirements of the role. This tool evaluates information based on contextual relevance and is used only to support our manual review process. It is not used to make hiring decisions.
About WITHIN
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.
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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.
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From WITHIN's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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