Creative Strategist

Prefered skills

Events, Paid Media Advertising, Analytical Skills, Copywriting, Press Releases, Presentations, Communication, Design, Consumer Behavior, Research

Job description

Salary Window: Depending on the experience and /or strength of the applicant
Contract: Full-Time
Location: In Office (Cape Town, CBD)

Serious Applicants, please use the link at the bottom rather than applying through LinkedIn. That latter is unlikely to be considered.

Meet Team Augment
We are a dynamic team of brand architects, consumer physiologists, and experiential enthusiasts. We happen to specialize in sport; from teams to brands, products and events. Located just off Bree Street, Cape Town, we service an exciting mix of local and overseas clients across a broad range of touchpoints and services. So if you have an innate interest, or even love, for sport and you consider yourself passionate about how to grow and engage audiences then this could be your next big move.

More About This Opportunity
As a Creative Strategist at Augment, you will have a unique opportunity to conceptualize, lead and develop the execution of strategies across our client portfolio. You will have a capable, creative team of high performers; 2x designers, a social/paid media specialist, and a project manager to collaborate with to bring your campaigns to fruition.

Your role is to command a valuable role in the team while providing creative, smart, considered and measurable campaign ideas that support our clients goals. You must be able to understand a brief, undertake relevant, thorough research and carry your ideas from concept to execution together with our team.

You are an ideal candidate if:

• You have at least 2 years of experience as a Creative Strategist
• Have a good understanding of a wide range of consumer touchpoints (organic & paid).
• A genuine enthusiasm for research.
• Finger on the pulse of current trends and the ability to feed into consumer behavior.
• An eye for aesthetics and functional design
• A good knack for communication (both internally and externally)
• An ability to understand various audiences and adapt accordingly
• Copywriting competency is a bonus
• A strong understanding and experience in taking a product to market through activations, sales funnels and other brand campaign mechanics.
• You think outside the box and consider yourself unconventional in your thoughts - while also being able to manage expectations, stick to a brief, and be realistic.
• You are a dynamic self-starter with acute attention to detail.
• Solution-focused and hard-working.

Your roles and responsibilities:

• Accountable for the creative vision and the standard of output for the agency and our clients.
• Distilling client briefs and their needs into refined, innovative solutions.
• Crafting considered, thorough strategies that fire across multiple platforms and touchpoints.
• Pitching and presenting your ideas confidently and clearly internally and to clients.
• Analysing, reporting and implementing learnings from past campaigns.
• Managing and leading a team of overachievers, by inspiring, developing, and overseeing the creative team.
• Ensuring the success of multiple, concurrent projects from conception to completion within timelines.

Your skills and experience:

• Research & analysis. You understand the importance of research and can analyze others and your own work to draw useful insights and learnings.
• Creative/ innovative. You generate new and innovative ideas.
• Excellent communicator. You speak and write clearly and articulately while being passionate and inspiring others.
• Flexible/ adaptable. You adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions. You cope effectively with complexity, change and stress. Able to work in a fast-paced environment with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Follow-through on commitments. You live up to verbal and written agreements. You are organised and action-oriented.
• High standards. You expect personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.
• Critical thinking. You are solutions-focused and come to your ideas by analysing situations and applying critical thinking in order to creatively problem solve.
• Team player. You reach out to peers and cooperate to establish an overall collaborative working relationship.

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind
We integrate ourselves effectively into our clients businesses, aspirations and ambitions. With our clients all being sports-focused it's important we adopt a similar mindset. All employees are offered a gym membership at a local gym.

Work Hard, Play Hard
At Augment, first and foremost, you'll get to do meaningful work, upskill and develop while being on genuinely exciting and enjoyable projects. We're also not your average 9-5 company. We work together and we really care; we are passionate about what we do.

Some of the things to look forward to:
Medical insurance plans are offered to team members at the agency for one year+. We kick-off the week with coffee away from the office and end the week with a team hype session. Every month we have 1 on 1s to see where we can improve as individuals and a team.

We thrive on seeing our team members grow by creating a learning culture. Augment provides access to a range of short-course platforms for all employees.

Have you read this far?
If we seem like the kind of forward-thinking, boundary-breaking, creative agency you've been looking for, we'd love to hear from you.

Please fill in the following application form https://augmentagency.typeform.com/to/Hd0EscqR