Associate Creative Strategist

Associate Creative Strategist

Location: New York (hybrid, min 2 days per week in NYC office )

Department: Creative Solutions

Reporting to: Director of Creative Solutions

Salary: $70,000 - $75,000

Role Overview

Time Out is looking for an Associate Creative Strategist to join our Creative Solutions team in New York.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to build a career in creative strategy, branded content and integrated marketing. Working closely with our Creative Solutions team, you'll help develop creative responses to client briefs, uncover audience insights and contribute to campaigns that connect brands with Time Out's culturally engaged audience.

You'll support the creation of bespoke advertising proposals, assist with RFP responses, contribute to brainstorming sessions and help bring ideas to life across digital, social, video and experiential platforms. Along the way, you'll gain exposure to cross-functional teams and develop the strategic, creative and commercial skills needed to grow within the role.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development of creative proposals and RFP responses for new and existing clients.

• Assist with audience research, market insights and trend analysis to inform campaign ideas.

• Help translate client objectives into engaging, insight-led creative concepts.

• Prepare presentations and pitch materials with guidance from senior team members.

• Collaborate with Sales, Editorial, Account Management and Ad Ops to ensure campaigns are creatively strong and commercially viable.

• Participate in brainstorming sessions, bringing fresh ideas and cultural insights.

• Concept and support experiential activations for brand partners, developing creative event ideas and experiences that bring campaigns to life in real-world environments.

• Collaborate on Time Out Market activations, helping develop, plan and execute engaging brand partner experiences across Time Out Market locations.

• Support campaign delivery, reporting and post-campaign learnings.

• Research emerging trends, consumer behaviours and partnership opportunities across food, culture, travel and entertainment.

• Help maintain creative resources, inspiration libraries and influencer/talent information where required.

Skills & Experience

• Around 1–2 years' experience in marketing, media, advertising, creative strategy or a related field,

• A genuine passion for creativity, storytelling, media and culture.

• Passion for food, travel, culture, and entertainment—and curiosity for what’s next.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Comfortable creating presentations using Canva, PowerPoint or Keynote.

• Curious, organised and eager to learn.

• An interest in audience insights, consumer behaviour and emerging trends.

• Able to manage multiple projects and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
  

About our culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.

Recruitment Scam Warning

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Please note thatTime Out will never ask candidates to pay fees, transfer money or make purchases at any stage of the recruitment process.We also do not conduct interviews or communicate with candidates via Telegram or WhatsApp.

If you receive a suspicious message, job offer or payment request claiming to be from Time Out, please do not respond or send any money. Instead, contact us athr.uk@timeout.comso we can investigate.

About Time Out Group plc

Time Out Group is a leading global media and hospitality business that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city.

It all began in London in 1968 when Time Out helped people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the capital. Since then, this iconic brand has consistently maintained its status as the go-to source of inspiration for both locals and visitors alike. Today, it is the only global brand – with a local voice – dedicated to city life.

Through Time Out Media and Time Out Market – which are highly synergistic – the Company helps its large audience go out in the world's greatest cities with its curated content and experiences, and connects global brands as well as local talents with this valuable audience.

Time Out Media’s multiple digital and physical channels span websites, mobile, social media, videos, newsletters and Live Events. Across these channels, Time Out distributes its high-quality content – created and curated by a global team of local experts – around the best food, drinks, culture, art, music, theatre, travel and entertainment in over 350 cities and over 50 countries. The Company is monetising this global reach and its strong traffic from a desirable audience by offering bespoke 360-degree multichannel advertising solutions to international, national and local brands and businesses. Since its launch in 1968, Time Out has become a global brand that advertisers and consumers love and trust.

Time Out Market is the world's first editorially curated food and cultural market, leveraging the Time Out brand to bring the best of the city together under one roof: its best chefs, drinks and cultural experiences – based on the editorial curation Time Out has always been known for. The first Time Out Market opened in 2014 in Lisbon, quickly becoming one of the city's most popular destinations. The success of Lisbon brought further expansion and there are currently 13 open Markets: in addition to Lisbon, there are sites in New York (in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood and in Manhattan's Union Square), Boston, Montreal, Dubai, Cape Town, Porto, Barcelona, Bahrain, Osaka, Budapest and Vancouver. More Time Out Market locations are in the pipeline as the global expansion continues.

Time Out is a dynamic, pioneering brand and so is our team. We want to work with the best and brightest talent because we work for the world’s greatest cities, the people enjoying them and the businesses in them. As a truly global team we get to collaborate with colleagues from New York to Paris, Cape Town and Sydney and beyond. It’s our expertise, authenticity and collaboration that make us successful and a unique team.