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# Creative Planner (Nonprofit) at Midwestern Interactive Growth Team

- **Company:** Midwestern Interactive Growth Team
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/midwestern-interactive/am9icG9zdDpHyDIYmVyn_p0bF7hbQo_C

## Job description

## Role Summary

Creative Planners own authorship of creative direction and project briefing for our Agency customers. You work in lockstep with account-level media planners and studio director to ensure we are executing work that is technically accurate, detailed, aligned to our customers’ objectives and brand standards, and brings their big ideas to life.

This is a clarity-and-authorship role for someone with mid-level agency or creative-production experience who delights in the details and in empowering others to do their best work.

Core Responsibilities

- Author the creative direction for every assigned project, including component-level direction notes and related creative fields.
- Gather, draft, and govern client and project resources needed for project execution, including stories, offers, proof points, brand assets, photos, style guides, and templated assets.
- Stay fluent in strategic and production context enough to brief accurately.
- Prepare work so Agency Creative Strategists can critique for strategic and brand alignment and customers can approve with confidence.
- Keep creative appendices, resource links, and brief content current as campaigns launch or change.
- Coordinate with Program & Production Management on schedule and handoff readiness without owning Mission Control or trafficking.
- Flag incomplete resource readiness early so jobs do not advance on invented content placeholders.
- Uphold brand and customers requirements with meticulous attention to detail and plain-language clarity in every project you author.
- Continuously improve brief quality, consistency, and handoff cleanliness across your assigned book of work.

What Success Looks Like

- Assigned briefs are complete, resource-linked, and critique-ready on schedule.
- Clients and Client Services report clearer briefs and cleaner handoffs for your work.

Required

- Mid-level experience in agency, creative production, direct marketing, and/or nonprofit fundraising creative operations - enough to write production-grade briefs with excellence.
- Demonstrated strength writing clear, detailed creative briefs, charters, or equivalent work-order artifacts.
- Extreme attention to detail and a bias for clarity over cleverness in written direction.
- Comfort partnering daily with a planning and production counterpart without absorbing their scope.
- Ability to reference structured content libraries/assets rather than inventing one-off copy dumps into a brief.
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to explain creative choices and absorb critique without ego.
- Capacity to manage multiple concurrent jobs under deadline pressure.
- Willingness to work in evolving systems.

## Preferred

- Digital Media experience.
- Familiarity with nonprofit / cause marketing creative workflows.
- Experience coordinating with CDs, Client Service, and production studios.
- Exposure to catalogued product/package systems or structured briefing tools.

## About Midwestern Interactive Growth Team

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Midwestern Interactive is a talent partner that provides embedded teams, scoped projects, and recruiting services for tech companies building in the AI era.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/Corporate Round funding)
- **Headquarters**: Joplin, Missouri, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Matt Johnson (CEO/Owner)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Software Development, Talent & Staffing, Technology Consulting
- Target customers: Growing tech companies (from Fortune 500 to early-stage startups) that need to move fast without building everything in-house
- Mission or purpose statement: "We complete work with purpose and precision. We lead with humility, drive, and wisdom. We take care of what is entrusted to us, including time, budget, relationships, and trust."

## Products & Services
- **Embedded Teams**: Top-tier talent that integrates seamlessly with a client's team, providing specialized expertise that scales with the vision while maintaining flexibility as priorities shift.
- **Scoped Projects**: Time-defined project teams with clear objectives and predictable costs, covering Discovery, MVPs, technical validation, brand development, and more.
- **Recruiting Services**: Full-cycle talent acquisition for direct placement, contract-to-hire, or embedded recruiters, finding hidden talent aligned with technical needs and company culture.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: 80 employees (+11.0% YoY); 120+ clients served; 250K+ hours delivered annually; products have raised over $450M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Gloo (lead investor in 2025 Corporate Round)
- **Growth Signals**: 38.3% LinkedIn follower growth (yearly); expanding headcount with 12 new hires in the last year; multiple office locations across the US and Brazil

## Competitive Advantages
- **Three-in-one model**: Unlike traditional staffing agencies focused solely on headcount, Midwestern offers embedded teams, scoped projects, and recruiting under one US contract, providing flexibility that rigid staffing models cannot match.
- **US-led, global reach**: Globally sourced talent configured to a client's region, timezone, and budget, with all management under a single US contract.
- **13+ years of experience** with a track record of serving 120+ clients from Fortune 500 to early-stage startups.
- **Senior leadership depth**: CTO, VP of Scoped, Director of Engineering, Design Director, and other experienced leaders ensure high-quality delivery.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities include scaling the embedded teams model for AI-era work, expanding into new markets (notably Brazil), and deepening partnerships with growth-stage tech companies.
- Emphasis on "flexible talent, global reach" — enabling clients to scale up or down easily without overcommitting.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven environment emphasizing clear communication, reliable follow-through, and commitment to quality. The team operates with humility, drive, and wisdom.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with offices in Joplin (HQ), Springfield, and Dayton, plus a distributed workforce in Brazil.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on impactful products that have raised over $450M; exposure to a wide range of clients from startups to Fortune 500; clear career progression paths.
- **Engineering culture**: 39% of staff are in technical roles (47 people), with strong seniority distribution (26% specialist, 16% other management, 12% manager, 9% senior). Team members come from diverse backgrounds including DevMountain, Jack Henry, Leggett & Platt, and Gloo.
- **Growth opportunities**: 11% yearly headcount growth indicates a scaling organization with upward mobility for high performers.

## Sources
1. [Midwestern.com - Homepage](https://midwestern.com/)
2. [Midwestern.com - About Page](https://midwestern.com/about)
3. [Midwestern Interactive Career Page](https://careers.midwesterninteractive.com/apply)
4. [LinkedIn - Midwestern Interactive](https://linkedin.com/company/buildmidwestern)
5. [Built In - Midwestern Interactive Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/midwestern-interactive-llc/jobs)

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