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ABOUT THE ROLE The Multimedia & Creative Specialist will develop and implement company-wide marketing and communication strategies through compelling visual storytelling and creative solutions. The ...

Creative Specialist III

Santa Clara, CA ยท On-site

$93K - $102K/yr

Includes a high degree of customer engagement, creative decision making, non-linear decision making and autonomous project ownership. Responsible for design discovery, co-creation, design validation ...

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Provides creative input to each brand's standards, guidelines, and visual systems as they evolve. * Contributes to complex, and/or multi-channel projects to ensure business objectives are achieved on ...

Creative Design Specialist

Dudley, MA ยท On-site

$54 - $66/hr

Nichols College - Dudley, MA 01571Salary Range: $60,000.00 - $60,000.00 Salary Job Title Creative Design Specialist Department Marketing and Communications Supervisor Vice President for Marketing and ...

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How much do creative specialist jobs pay per hour?

As of Sep 6, 2026, the average hourly pay for creative specialist in the United States is $29.25, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $25.96 and $30.53 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a creative specialist?

A creative specialist uses graphic design and layout techniques to enhance the effectiveness of online content. Their job duties include improving or creating the layout of a web page. They focus on usability as well as eye-catching graphics and words. Qualifications for this career include experience with the various software used for web page development, online media, and graphic design. Marketing companies often hire a creative specialist to develop the online presence for ad campaigns.

How does a creative specialist typically collaborate with other departments within an organization?

A Creative Specialist often works closely with marketing, product, and sales teams to ensure that all visual and messaging elements align with the company's brand strategy. This collaboration usually involves attending cross-functional meetings, understanding campaign objectives, and incorporating feedback from various stakeholders. Effective communication and adaptability are crucial, as the Creative Specialist must balance creative vision with practical business goals. This teamwork not only enriches the creative process but also leads to more cohesive and impactful campaigns.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a creative specialist, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Creative Specialist, you need strong skills in visual design, content creation, and a solid understanding of branding, often supported by a degree in graphic design, marketing, or a related field. Familiarity with design software such as Adobe Creative Suite, digital asset management systems, and project management tools is typically required. Exceptional communication, creativity, and collaboration skills help you interpret client needs and work effectively with cross-functional teams. These abilities are crucial for producing innovative, high-impact content that supports organizational goals and engages target audiences.

What is the difference between Creative Specialist vs Graphic Designer?

AspectCreative SpecialistGraphic Designer
CredentialsTypically requires a degree in marketing, advertising, or related fields; certifications in design tools are commonUsually holds a degree in graphic design, visual arts, or similar; proficiency in design software is essential
Work EnvironmentWorks across marketing campaigns, branding, and multimedia projects in various industriesFocuses on creating visual content for print, digital media, and branding
Employer & Industry UsageEmployed in marketing agencies, corporate marketing teams, and media companiesFound in design studios, advertising agencies, and corporate branding departments

While both roles involve creative work, a Creative Specialist often handles broader marketing strategies and multimedia content, whereas a Graphic Designer primarily focuses on visual design and branding assets. The roles overlap in skills and tools but differ in scope and application.

How much does a creative specialist make?

The average salary for a creative specialist varies depending on experience, location, and industry, but typically ranges from $45,000 to $75,000 annually. Professionals with skills in graphic design, branding, and proficiency in tools like Adobe Creative Suite tend to earn higher salaries.

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Infographic showing various Creative Specialist job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 83% Full Time, 14% Part Time, and 2% Contract. Highlights an 85% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 13% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $60,834 per year, or $29.2 per hour.

Senior Growth Creative Specialist (Hybrid)

Weedmaps

Austin, TX โ€ข Hybrid

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 9 days ago


Job description

Senior Growth Creative Specialistย (Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week)ย 

Overview:

The Senior Growth Creative Specialist is a hands-on, AI-native maker embedded full-time inside the Growth organization, sitting with the channel owners who run paid media and lifecycle rather than in a separate creative department working from a ticket queue. This person is the creative engine for growth: taking a performance brief, raw footage, or photography and turning it into finished, on-brand, high-performing assets across paid social and display, motion cutdowns, video, GIFs, AI-generated UGC, email design, push and in-app copy, landing page visuals, and campaign collateral.

The role requires genuine range across three crafts - copywriting, design, and motion - paired with fluency in generative AI tools used as an accelerant rather than a shortcut. Output must be distinctive and polished, never templated or obviously AI-generated, and must hold a high bar for brand consistency and compliance in a heavily regulated category. The Senior Growth Creative is fully integrated into the team's test-and-learn cycles: producing variant sets, reading performance results alongside the channel owners, and iterating on winners so that creative velocity is never the bottleneck. Because this seat is embedded rather than downstream, this person is in the room when campaigns are shaped - and shapes them. This is a builder's seat for someone who wants to define how modern, AI-first growth creative is produced.

The impact you'll make:

  • Build paid media creative that performs. Concept, write, design, and animate finished, professional-quality ad assets end-to-end - statics, animated/motion, video, GIFs, and AI-generated UGC - sized, versioned, and specced correctly for Meta, Google Display and Demand Gen, YouTube, TikTok, X, app install, and other biddable and programmatic placements.
  • Own lifecycle and CRM creative. Design email templates and campaign sends, write push and in-app notification copy, and build modular assets the lifecycle team can deploy at speed.
  • Operate as the dedicated creative engine for testing cycles. Rapidly generate variants across hooks, formats, and messaging, and iterate on winners so creative throughput never limits the pace of testing.
  • Leverage generative AI across the production pipeline. Use image, video, motion, and UGC generation tools to produce slick, on-brand assets faster than traditional workflows, applying design judgment so the output is distinctive rather than templated or obviously AI-generated.
  • Turn raw capture into usable assets. Take contracted photo and video and edit, cut, caption, animate, and finish it into channel-ready work.
  • Write. Headlines, ad copy, subject lines, CTAs, push copy, and landing page copy - short-form, sharp, and in our voice.
  • Design and animate. Static and motion: storyboards, kinetic type, product motion, transitions, and sound-off-first editing.
  • Sit inside the growth cadence. Join channel planning and performance reviews, help decide what is worth testing next, translate performance briefs and test read-outs into concrete creative, and feed learnings back into the next production round.
  • Maintain brand consistency and a high quality bar across all output, working within brand guidelines and messaging frameworks.
  • Ensure compliance. Meet platform-policy and regulatory requirements for a restricted category, including state-by-state messaging constraints and platform restrictions on cannabis advertising.
  • Build systems, not one-offs. Create and maintain efficient, repeatable production workflows - prompt libraries, templates, component libraries, asset naming, and versioning - so output scales without scaling headcount or sacrificing quality.
  • Manage throughput and prioritization across multiple concurrent tests, channels, and campaigns, keeping turnaround fast and predictable.
  • Partner with Media Operations on asset trafficking, tagging, and organization so creative flows cleanly into campaigns and reporting.
  • Stay current on generative AI tools, emerging formats, and platform creative best practices, continuously improving the team's production capability.
  • Help establish standards, guardrails, and governance for AI-assisted creative production, including responsible use, licensing, and rights considerations for generative and synthetic assets.
  • Flex to what the business needs. Some weeks that is a social campaign, an event, a sales one-pager, or a partner deck.

What you've accomplished:

  • 4+ years building digital creative for a consumer brand, at a growth/performance agency, or as a high-volume freelancer, with a portfolio demonstrating strong craft across static, motion/animated, and video formats.
  • Genuine range across three crafts: copywriting, design, and motion. We do not expect world-class in all three - we expect strong in two and fully competent in the third, with a portfolio that proves it.
  • Demonstrated paid media work: the ability to show ads you made, the channels they ran on, and ideally how they performed.
  • Real lifecycle/CRM experience - email design and build, push and in-app messaging. HTML/CSS for email, or basic front-end familiarity for landing pages.
  • Demonstrated hands-on fluency with generative AI creative tools (image, video, motion, and UGC generation) and the judgment to produce polished, brand-safe output rather than raw AI results.
  • Fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere) and Figma.
  • Working understanding of how creative is tested and optimized in paid media - variants, iteration, and what makes an ad perform.
  • Ability to work fast in a high-volume, iterative testing environment without being sloppy, holding quality while shipping volume.
  • Self-directed: able to take a one-line brief, ask the two questions that matter, and come back with work.
  • Strong collaboration skills and comfort operating as an embedded partner within a performance-driven team, working close to the numbers. Performance feedback on your creative reads as useful information, not criticism.

Bonus points:ย 

  • Experience in cannabis, marketplaces, or local commerce.
  • Experience producing creative for Meta and other paid social platforms, including UGC-style and short-form video, plus creator-content editing chops.
  • Working knowledge of ad platform policy constraints and creative compliance in a regulated or restricted category (cannabis, alcohol, health, finance).
  • Experience building prompt libraries, templates, or automated/AI-assisted production workflows.
  • Familiarity with performance-creative concepts (hooks, formats, creative testing frameworks) and creative analytics tools.
  • Awareness of licensing, rights, and responsible-use considerations for generative and synthetic media.
  • Comfort with a fast-moving, ambiguous, build-from-scratch environment.
  • Comfort with a range of creative and generative AI tools, and a habit of exploring new ones as the landscape shifts. The examples below are illustrative, not a checklist, we don't expect expertise in all of them:
    • Design & motion: Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere) and Figma.
    • AI image: e.g. Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Ideogram.
    • AI video & motion: e.g. Runway, Google Veo, Sora, plus AI-assisted editing/captioning (Descript, CapCut, Opus Clip).
    • AI UGC & avatars: e.g. HeyGen, Arcads, Creatify.
    • AI copy & ideation: e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, including building reusable prompts.

The base pay range for this position is $100,000 - $121,562 per year, and a competitive bonus

ย 2026 US Benefits for Full Time, Regular Employees:

  • Physical Health (Medical, Dental & Vision)
    • 100% employer-paid premium for employees
    • Up to 80% coverage for dependents
    • Company HSA contribution with the High Deductible Health Plan
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan (employer will match contribution up to 3.5% of employee contribution)
  • Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance options
  • Supplemental, voluntary benefits
    • Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings with a monthly company contribution
    • FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
    • Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
    • Critical Illness Insurance
    • Accident Insurance
    • Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
    • Pet Insurance
    • Identity theft protection
    • Legal access to a network of attorneys
  • PTO, paid sick leave, and company holidays (including a 2026 holiday shutdown)
  • Paid parental leave