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# Senior Creative Strategist - Donut Studios at New Engen, Inc.

- **Company:** New Engen, Inc.
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newengeninc/jobs/4392899009

## Job description

WHY DONUT STUDIOS?

At New Engen, we help brands grow, not just bigger, but smarter. We’re a digital marketing agency that drives meaningful impact across the entire customer journey by integrating media, creative, analytics, influencer, and retail strategies into performance-driven campaigns.

Donut Studios is our in-house creative studio, purpose-built to craft high-performing, platform-native, and digital content for the world’s most ambitious brands. As a key part of New Engen’s suite of specialized solutions, alongside offerings like the Acorn Creator Suite -  Donut Studios helps unlock breakthrough creative that drives results, fast.

We’re a collaborative group of strategists, content creators, copywriters, editors, designers, account managers, and more who are all in on helping brands, and each other,  thrive. We work hard, stay humble, and build with purpose.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

Develop Performance-Driven Creative Strategy Build creative and messaging strategies that help brands grow across digital channels, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and display. Develop clear frameworks that guide concept development, ensuring creative work is grounded in performance insights and designed to resonate with target audiences.

Serve as the Creative Strategy Lead for Clients Participate in client meetings as Donut Studios’ in-house creative strategist for assigned accounts. Provide thoughtful guidance on creative direction, campaign opportunities, and platform-specific best practices while helping clients understand the strategic thinking behind recommendations.

Turn Audience Insights into Creative Direction Analyze consumer mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors to inform compelling creative concepts. Translate these insights into actionable direction for internal teams, ensuring creative work connects with audiences and supports campaign objectives across the customer journey.

Partner with Media to Drive Creative Performance Work closely with media counterparts to review campaign performance and identify opportunities to improve results. Use performance data, KPIs, and client feedback to refine creative strategies, optimize messaging, and guide future concept development.

Manage Creative Launch Pipelines Coordinate closely with media partners to manage launch pipelines for assigned clients, ensuring deliverables are completed, reviewed, and shared on schedule. Maintain visibility into timelines and dependencies to keep campaigns moving forward efficiently.

Lead Creative Briefing and Project Management Develop clear creative briefs and manage assignments for internal teams using tools like Asana and Slack. Ensure projects are well-scoped, expectations are clear, and teams have the context they need to produce high-quality creative work.

Ensure Quality and Brand Alignment Review scripts, concepts, and final deliverables to ensure creative output meets client expectations, brand guidelines, and campaign goals. Maintain strong quality control across all deliverables before launch.

Strengthen Cross-Functional Collaboration Build processes and workflows that support collaboration between creative, media, and client teams. Help ensure ideas, feedback, and performance insights move smoothly across teams so campaigns are executed efficiently and effectively.

## WHAT YOU BRING

- 4+ years of experience in paid social creative strategy, ideally at a digital marketing agency or in-house at a DTC brand
- Strong instincts for direct response creative and platform-specific storytelling
- Proven track record of leading client strategy and improving creative performance
- Deep understanding of Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and other digital channels
- Excellent communicator and collaborator who thrives in fast-paced, cross-functional environments
- Confident briefing partner and creative reviewer with high attention to detail
- Tools and nice to haves:
- Proficiency with Asana, Notion, Slack, and Google Suite (especially Sheets)
- Familiarity with Figma or Adobe Creative Suite is a plus
- Bonus points for experience with creative testing frameworks or building UGC programs

## PERKS & BENEFITS

- Medical, Dental, Vision, Short/Long-Term Disability, Life/AD&D
- 401k - Employer match
- HSA - Employer contributes
- Flexible Vacation & PTO plan
- Paid Maternity / Paternity
- Paid Holidays
- Remote/Flex day schedule
- Laid back office environment
- The coolest team ;)
- Fun company events & off-sites

Salary Range: $70,000 - $80,000 USD annually Compensation for each opportunity is determined based on the applicable labor market, the scope and structure of the role or engagement, and the individual’s qualifications and experience.

New Engen is proud to have offices in Seattle, New York, and Northwest Arkansas, each one anchoring teams that drive creativity, collaboration, and culture. But great work isn’t limited to those zip codes. We also support a distributed team of remote employees across the country, giving people the flexibility to do their best work wherever they are.

We currently hire full-time employees in the following states: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin

Let’s Build What’s Next Together — If you’re passionate about media and eager to make a meaningful impact with a team that’s all in, we’d love to hear from you.

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## About New Engen, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: New Engen is a full-funnel digital marketing agency that combines performance media, scalable content, influencer marketing, affiliate management, and cross-channel measurement to drive growth for consumer brands.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage: Private Equity; total funding $10.6M)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, WA, United States (837 N 34th St, Seattle, WA 98103)
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Justin Hayashi (CEO & Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Advertising Services, Digital Marketing, Performance Marketing, Influencer Marketing, Affiliate Marketing
- **Target customers**: B2B (brands, marketing leaders, investors) across fashion/apparel, beauty, health/wellness, food & beverage, CPG, entertainment, ecommerce, and financial services
- **Mission/purpose**: To help brands grow “not just bigger, but smarter” by pairing media strategy with scalable content infrastructure, measured by outcomes and refined through iteration.

## Products & Services
- **Media**: Performance media planning and buying across paid social (Meta, TikTok), search, and display; focused on CAC reduction, ROAS, and incremental revenue.
- **Creative (Donut Studios)**: In-house studio producing platform-native, high-performance creative assets; integrated with media to test and refine based on engagement/conversion data.
- **Influencer & Creator Marketing**: Management of creator-led campaigns from sourcing to performance tracking; expanded via Grapevine acquisition; open creator network (New Engen Creators).
- **Affiliate Marketing**: Channel strategy, publisher recruitment, commission design, fraud mitigation, and reporting; led by Ashley Hill (VP, Affiliate) and Steve Tazic (VP, Technology & Affiliate Ops).
- **Measurement (LIFT Platform)**: Cross-channel attribution, marketing mix modeling, incrementality testing, and AI-driven insights; aggregates data to guide budget allocation.
- **Strategic Consulting**: Standalone offering for CEOs and investors – quantitative competitive analysis, audience research, media planning audits, and growth opportunity identification.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric – Annual Revenue**: $34.2M (as of most recent data) [LinkedIn]
- **Total Funding**: $10.6M across 3 rounds:
  - Seed (Sep 2016): $2.5M – 1 investor
  - Series A (May 2017): $8.1M – 4 investors
  - Private Equity (Dec 2021): led by Insignia Capital Group [LinkedIn]
- **Notable Acquisitions**: Acorn (Jan 2022), LT Partners (Jun 2023), Grapevine (creator-led paid social) [LinkedIn]
- **Growth Signals**: 2.7% YoY headcount growth (276 employees); operates in 8 countries (US, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, UK, Portugal, Argentina); LinkedIn followers up 47.2% YoY; 18 active job postings (as of recent data) [LinkedIn]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated full-funnel model**: Media, creative, influencer, affiliate, and measurement are interconnected, not siloed – creative is informed by media performance, creator content is repurposed as paid ads.
- **Proprietary measurement platform (LIFT)**: Provides multi-method attribution and ROI quantification, helping clients avoid reliance on single-touch models.
- **Deep vertical expertise**: Proven results across 100+ consumer brands with case studies showing 44% CAC reduction (Altra), 629% TikTok ROAS (Zazzle), and 15.2M impressions (Ocean Spray).
- **In-house creative studio + influencer network**: Donut Studios and the Grapevine acquisition create a content supply chain that’s both scalable and data-driven.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding creator-led paid social**: The Grapevine acquisition signals a push to integrate influencer content more tightly with paid media.
- **AI-powered measurement**: LIFT AI is being developed to provide incremental impact quantification and smarter investment decisions.
- **Scalable consulting practice**: Offering strategic services to C-level leaders and investors, leveraging proprietary data from hundreds of brand engagements.
- **International growth**: Offices in Seattle, Northwest Arkansas, Brooklyn, and Manhattan Beach, with employees in 8 countries – indicating a distributed, global reach.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Described as “collaborative group of strategists, creatives, analysts, and makers” who “work hard, stay humble, and build with purpose.”
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated; multiple office locations suggest a hybrid or in-office preference, but global team presence implies flexibility.
- **Employee rating**: 3.7/5.0 on LinkedIn (145 reviews) – with strengths in Career (3.9) and Culture (3.7), but lower in Compensation (3.2) and Work-Life (3.1).
- **Salary examples**: Digital Marketing Manager ~$98k/yr; Associate ~$51k/yr (LinkedIn estimates).
- **Engineering/analyst roles**: Active postings include Senior Data Engineer, Senior Analyst (Measurement Strategy), and Creative Strategy Analyst – pointing to a data-driven, tech-enabled environment.
- **Career page note**: The official careers page (newengen.applytojob.com) showed no open positions at the time of the search, but LinkedIn listed 18 active openings; candidates should check both.

## Sources
1. [newengen.com – Company page](https://newengen.com/company/)
2. [newengen.com – Services](https://newengen.com/services/)
3. [LinkedIn – New Engen Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-engen)
4. [New Engen Career Page (ApplyToJob)](http://newengen.applytojob.com/)

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