Creative Strategist

Role: Creative Strategist
Reports to: Director of Creative Strategy

DoSomething.org is a movement to create the most socially active generation in history.

• We fight for our members every single day. We care deeply about activating our 5+million members around the world to make impact in their communities.
• We believe in young people. We believe all young people have the agency to create social change and we provide them with the guidance to make it happen.
• We don’t hire just anybody. We work hella hard and we move super fast. We want people who get excited to come to work at our dynamic office every day.
• We genuinely stand behind who we are and what we do. No faking it here. Everyone on our staff has their own “why” for coming to work every day. What will yours be?

We have the stability of a 25-year-old organization, but we look, feel, and operate like a tech-forward, fast-paced startup. Our core product is our campaigns. We define a campaign as a clear problem, solution, and call-to-action around a specific cause. Our campaigns don’t require money, an old person, or a car, and have a material and measurable impact. Each campaign is based on verified evidence and is designed to scale.

The creative strategist is a creative, innovative thinker who helps DoSomething solve the societal issues most pressing to young people. You’ll bring a fresh perspective to how we can create campaigns that resonate with young people, while also hitting our organizational objectives and corporate sponsors’ goals.

What You’ll Do.

• Brainstorm campaign ideas. You will come up with unique, exciting campaigns that fit within DoSomething’s model. You’ll participate in cross-functional brainstorms with DoSomething staff and you’ll work with external creatives and to ensure that we have solid, outside perspectives represented in our brainstorms.
• Liaise to the Biz Dev team. You will assist in the development of the campaign proposal, a brief outlining the type of campaign a potential corporate sponsor is interested in, for DoSomething’s Business Development.
• Research. You’ll research issues that our campaigns aim to fix. You’ll also gather youth insights to determine if a call to action is accessible, compelling, and shareable among a 13-25 year old audience.
• User Insights Extraordinaire. You’ll conduct user testing and audience analysis to gain insights into our core demo (young people!), and advise the team on how to best frame our campaigns to resonate widely with them.
• Storyboard the Campaign Experience. You’ll work closely with the Creative and Product teams to develop and codify a storyboarding strategy for our campaigns that help inform the user experience and the marketing/PR strategy.
• Brand Champion. In addition to working closely with the Biz Dev team, you will also work alongside our Director of Marketing to ensure that our campaigns meet our brand promise of being relevant, inspiring and never just meh.

Enough about us! Let’s talk about you. You are:

• A solution-oriented, creative brainstormer.
• Living and breathing relevant and popular youth culture.
• Experienced working on multiple activities and/or projects.
• An excellent communicator: solid grammar, ability to speak and write clearly.
• A natural insights seeker. Ideally, you have a pulse on (and love) youth pop culture who knows where/how to identify youth trends.
• An intersectional activist. You understand how your pet cause relates to other issue areas. You want different lived experiences and perspectives represented in the movements you belong to.
• Eager to contribute to our creative ideation process and take on complex project management. Recent grads encouraged to apply!

Select Perks & Benefits.

• 3 weeks’ vacation plus the week between Christmas and New Year’s (and Summer Fridays from Memorial Day to Labor Day – office closes at 1:30), fun office environment, a spot on our summer kickball team, and occasional brownie bake-offs. Plus, you don’t have to come to work on your birthday.
• 100% medical and dental premiums covered. Yep, you read that right.
• Five (or six? We’re losing count.) different ways to make coffee. We also have tea, if that’s more your thing.
• DoSomething is an equal opportunity employer. Obviously.

DoSomething.org and DoSomething Strategic (“we”, “us”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains when and why we collect personal information on candidates, and how we keep it secure.

Who are we?

• DoSomething.org is one of the largest organizations in the world focused on young people and social change. DoSomething Strategic is the consulting arm of DoSomething.org. Our 6 million+ members take action, online and offline, to better their communities by participating in one of our 250+ cause campaigns.

How and why we collect data from you.

• We collect and retain data that is included in your job application. This includes your full name, contact information, and any personal information disclosed in your resume, cover letter, and other supplemental application materials.
• Data is collected for evaluation criteria when seeking employment at DoSomething.
• We will only use your data for what was originally intended – for purposes of seeking and gaining employment at DoSomething. Your data will not be “recycled” for marketing emails or to sell to third parties.

How long do we retain this data?

• DoSomething will retain candidate profiles for 3 years.
• Annually on August 1, candidate profiles from 3+ years prior will be entirely deleted from our system.

Is your data secure?

• JazzHR maintains secure job board pages. Job boards will default to HTTPS. Additionally, if we were to terminate our contract with JazzHR our candidate data is deleted from JazzHR’s systems in accordance with JazzHR’s Terms of Service.