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# Creative Strategy Manager at Linqia

- **Company:** Linqia
- **Location:** New York New York, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/linqia/jobs/8786458002?gh_jid=8786458002

## Job description

Linqia is the leader in the growing influencer marketing industry. At Linqia, we partner with the world’s largest brands including Danonne, AB InBev, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, and Walmart to build compelling and effective influencer marketing campaigns. Our AI-driven platform and team of experts are leading the transformation of influencer marketing.

We value intelligence, recognize talent and have instilled a culture that supports career development and growth for our employees. We thrive on innovation and accountability, with a customer first attitude that adds true value to everything we touch. Our team members are smart, hard-working, have integrity and love to have fun as we play to win. At Linqia, you’ll be working with others who are passionate about marketing in a fun, fast-paced and data-driven environment.

Creative Strategy Manager

The responsibility of the Creative Strategy Manager is to work closely with the VP, Creative & Client Strategy to oversee the Creative Strategy team, helping deliver against our team goals while acting as a mentor and guide to more junior team members. The Creative Strategy Manager will also be an active member of the team, acting as a senior support to Linqia’s revenue organization across a broad range of clients.

## What You’ll Do

- People & Processes:
- Assist with and develop process improvements for employee growth, development, and hiring
- Collaborate with the VP, Creative & Client Strategy on team goal setting, tracking, and delivery
- Manage bandwidth, allocate projects, and prioritize resources for the Creative Strategy team
- Act as a people manager for 5+ Creative Strategists
- Creative (Pre-Sale):
- Ideate on insight-driven creator campaign ideas for our clients
- Lead the creation of new business proposals
- Design slides for proposals and proactive decks (using Canva templates)
- Create social media mocks, including editing images and copywriting, for proposals and proactive decks
- Creative (Post-Sale):
- Craft creative briefs for creators, including sourcing music and designing mood boards
- Give creators feedback on their creative concepts to up-level their creative executions
- Creative (Cross-Client):
- Act as a thought leader when speaking about social media and influencer creative trends internally and within the industry

Ideal Qualifications

- 7-12 years experience in creative and/or social and/or content strategy
- At least 2 years of managerial experience
- Experience working with creators
- Strong background in either art direction, copywriting, or creative strategy
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Located in the NYC area and able to commute to the office 3 times a week

Creative Strategy Team

The Creative Strategy Manager will be part of the Creative Strategy team. The Creative Strategy team’s responsibility is to deliver world-class influencer marketing creative strategy, solutions, and content for Linqia’s clients.

As a member of the Creative Strategy team, you’ll work to embody Linqia’s core values:

- Be human.
- Act like an owner.
- Move fast and learn from it.
- Create great experiences.
- Be a problem solver.
- Data wins.

In addition to this, our team ethos is to be:

- Great partners to our colleagues and our clients.
- Eternally curious and always learning.
- Open to change as the industry, Linqia, and our processes evolve.

Location

- New York City (hybrid)

This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. Linqia is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes or candidates through this Web site or directly to employees. Linqia does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with us.

## About Linqia

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Linqia is the leading independent influencer marketing agency in the US, using an AI-powered platform to help Fortune 500 brands execute creator-led campaigns.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, last round in 2014)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Nader Alizadeh (Co-Founder & CEO) and Maria Sipka (Co-Founder & EVP)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Influencer Marketing / Advertising Services
- Target customers: B2B, primarily large enterprise brands (Fortune 500)
- Mission/purpose statement: "Create great experiences" for clients, creators, and employees.

## Products & Services
- **[Resonate Platform]**: An AI-powered proprietary technology platform and workflow tool. It allows brands to find and filter creators, approve briefs and content, track organic and paid performance, manage and repurpose content, and chat with "Marco AI" to simplify creator campaigns.
- **[Managed Services]**: Full-service agency offering annual planning, end-to-end campaign management, creator negotiations and contracting, paid amplification, detailed reporting, and ongoing social listening and trend spotting.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**: *Annual Revenue*: $23.2M (latest estimate). *Total Funding*: $3.4M (Seed Round in 2012 led by Javelin Venture Partners, Series A in 2014).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Javelin Venture Partners (lead investor). Clients include Danone, Instacart, Bayer, Albertsons, and Noodles & Company.
- **Growth Signals**: The company has grown headcount by +14.4% year-over-year to approximately 100 employees. It has partnered with 650+ clients and is "trusted by more Fortune 500 brands than any other influencer marketing agency."

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Powered Platform (Resonate)**: Differentiates from competitors who offer only project management software or pure creative services.
- **Independent Agency Status**: Being independent allows for flexibility and unbiased partnerships with a wide range of third-party measurement tools.
- **Enterprise Credibility**: Deep experience and a strong track record with Fortune 500 clients, providing a stable and high-caliber client base.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening the use of AI within its platform (e.g., "Marco AI") to further simplify and scale influencer campaign management.
- Expanding its paid media and measurement practice to provide full-funnel results and measurable ROI for clients.
- Continuing to build out its strategic and creative team to maintain its position as a leader in the creator economy.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company emphasizes a culture of learning, professional growth, and belonging. Core value is "create great experiences."
- **Hybrid/Remote Policy**: Hybrid schedule for San Francisco and New York employees.
- **Notable Perks**:
    - Medical, vision, and dental coverage (95% of insurance costs paid by company).
    - $300K life insurance.
    - Stock options (employees are owners).
    - Flexible PTO.
    - 401K & commuter benefits.
    - Interactive contests and prizes.

## Sources
1. [Linqia Website](https://www.linqia.com/)
2. [Linqia Careers Page](https://www.linqia.com/careers/)
3. [Linqia About Page](https://www.linqia.com/about-us/)
4. [Linqia LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/linqia)
5. [Linqia on The Org](https://theorg.com/org/linqia)

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