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Creative Strategist

Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform that uses prediction intelligence and machine learning to help companies acquire and retain high-quality app users. Founded in 2012, Liftoff offers a suite of solutions to help mobile businesses grow their app visibility and brand.

Liftoff

Employee count: 501-1000

Salary: 72k-100k USD

United States only

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

About Liftoff

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps. Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, e-commerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

About this Role

This role sits within the Strategic Partnerships pillar of the Creative Strategy team and is devoted to developing and executing creative strategy solutions that drive performance across Liftoff’s highest-value customer portfolio. As a key member of the Creative Studio team, you will work closely with Revenue, Creative, and Analytics stakeholders to craft bespoke creative strategies that align with both customer goals and Liftoff's business objectives.

By delivering data-informed recommendations and managing high-touch creative projects from concept to execution, you will ensure that creative strategy is a measurable commercial accelerator. You will report on creative trends, identify growth opportunities, and help build practices that support innovation, efficiency, and insight-led performance improvements for Premium accounts.

Responsibilities

Customer & Creative Strategy

  • Develop effective creative strategies tailored to premium customer goals and Liftoff's commercial objectives.
  • Deliver quarterly planning for creative campaigns, including milestone setting and creative goal alignment.
  • Lead and participate in brainstorming sessions to generate high-impact creative concepts that address customer-specific needs.
  • Analyze creative performance data to extract actionable insights and optimize strategy using Looker and other internal tools.
  • Build and maintain solid relationships with strategic customers, acting as a trusted creative advisor.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Partner with Revenue and internal teams to align creative strategy with broader account strategies.
  • Design narratives and presentations to successfully showcase creative insights, trends, and strategies through visual and verbal communication.
  • Proactively manage customer and internal expectations through regular updates and high-touch touchpoints.
  • Leverage internal resources and documentation to improve transparency and alignment.

Project & Process Management

  • Manage projects autonomously, ensuring timely delivery and quality across multiple campaigns.
  • Demonstrate well-developed organization and multitasking abilities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Identify areas for process improvement or tooling and provide mindful recommendations.
  • Contribute to playbooks and knowledge-sharing that support the rollout of successful premium strategies.

Team & Culture

  • Contribute to a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.
  • Share insights, case studies, and customer wins with the broader team to foster best practices.
  • Stay informed on industry trends and contribute to internal enablement efforts.

Requirements

  • 3–5 years of experience in creative strategy, digital marketing, or performance advertising.
  • Experience managing high-value customer relationships and performance-driven creative planning.
  • Robust project management and prioritization skills.
  • Exemplary written and verbal communication, including presentation skills.
  • Knowledge of digital performance metrics and campaign analysis.
  • Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively across departments.

Working at Liftoff is fast-paced, fun, and challenging, and we thrive on innovation. Come join the rocket ship and help shape the future of the mobile app ecosystem with us!

Location:
This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities: CA, CO, ID, IL, FL, GA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, UT, and WA.

We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and New York City.

Travel Expectations:
We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.

Compensation:
Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on the candidate's location and experience.

The following are our base salary ranges for this role:

  • SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County: $85,000 to $100,000 plus bonus
  • Seattle/Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $78,200 to $92,000 plus bonus
  • All other cities and towns in our approved states: $72,250 to $85,000 plus bonus

We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate-submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024.

Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here

Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.

Liftoff's Compensation Strategy

Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.

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Salary: 72k-100k USD

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About Liftoff

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Since 2012, we've been at the forefront of changing how brands think about growing their app businesses. Our journey began with a focus on being the first to develop an ROI-focused approach to optimizing users. We're passionate about finding new ways to help mobile businesses get more from their apps, and our core goal has always been to help mobile app companies connect with their audiences. Today, we continue to challenge the status quo by developing innovative technologies that help you advance app visibility and build your brand in the long term. We are a complete mobile app marketing platform, helping companies acquire and retain high-quality mobile app users at scale. Our platform uses prediction intelligence and unbiased machine learning to find engaged users for mobile app marketers. We also utilize creative testing to deliver the most engaging ad experience and a unique cost-per-revenue model to optimize for LTV goals. We're proud to have been a long-term partner to leading brand advertisers and app publishers since our founding. Over the last ten years, we've expanded our footprint beyond our Redwood City, CA, headquarters. Now, with offices in key global locations like London, Berlin, and beyond, we're positioned to meet you wherever you and your users are. Our growth has been significant, and as of 2022, our company has nearly one thousand employees across the globe and a suite of products focused on helping customers in every industry accelerate growth and increase revenue.

We believe in giving back to our communities. Through our Liftoff Gives program, our colleagues can use their skills to help others. This includes skills-based volunteering, in-person volunteering, and employee-inspired giving. Our values are centered around a growth mindset, being guided by data, acting with agency and urgency, and being in this together. We experiment relentlessly, without fear of failure, and are in constant pursuit of growth. Numbers are the language of our business; we set goals, measure results, then adapt and evolve based on data. We avoid bureaucracy and move fast when it matters, recognizing what we can control and empowering our team to take action in solving problems. We care deeply, optimizing for our customer and broader team's success. Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, and game developers scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps. Our solutions support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, e-commerce, and entertainment. We also created Mobile Heroes, the industry's best-known global community of app marketers, monetization experts, and game developers.

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Team breakfasts, movies, sports and more.

Commuter benefits

Monthly ride share credits, Caltrain or parking passes.

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Liftoff

Company size

501-1000 employees

Founded in

2012

Chief executive officer

Jeremy Bondy

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