Creative Strategist
Design
Hong Kong
About Teads
Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1,700 people in 30+ countries.
For more information, visit www.teads.com.
About Teads Studio
At Teads Studio, we empower global brands to redefine digital advertising. Through cutting-edge interactive video and display formats across all screens, we combine data-driven insights with creative innovation to transform how clients connect with their audiences.
Your Impact
As a Creative Strategist, you won't just support sales—you will be a driving force behind our regional commercial success. You’ll architect bespoke campaign strategies that solve complex client KPIs, elevate strategic agency partnerships, and directly grow revenue across the region.
In this role, you will:
- Be the Face of Innovation: Lead and facilitate L’Atelier creative workshops across Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China, inspiring agencies and brands with industry-leading best practices.
- Drive Consultative Strategy: Partner closely with an elite sales team to design and pitch high-performing campaign responses tailored to client objectives.
- Lead & Mentor: Directly manage and inspire one Designer, fostering local creative excellence.
Your Network & Culture
Reporting directly to the VP of Teads Studio (based in Singapore), you will join a high-energy APAC collective of designers, developers, and strategists working collaboratively to unlock the full potential of brand assets. Locally, you’ll be anchored within an established, dynamic Hong Kong team with cross-functional visibility across the entire business.
What You Bring to the Team
Core Qualifications & Experience
- Background: Degree in Graphic Design, Digital Media, Creative Strategy, or a related field.
- Track Record: Proven experience in a digital or creative role, including direct experience guiding and managing talent.
- Language Skills: Fluency in both English and Mandarin (essential for seamless cross-regional collaboration across Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China).
Creative Strategy & Commercial Instincts
- Consultative Approach: Natural talent for translating brief objectives and client KPIs into compelling, mobile-first video and display creative solutions.
- Commercial Drive: Strong understanding of creative/media selling within mobile environments, paired with influential presentation skills that engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Execution & Ownership: Tenacious, proactive, and solution-driven mindset, with the organizational agility to manage multiple high-stakes projects and commercial partners under tight deadlines.
Technical & Creative Toolkit
- Design & Editing Suite: Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud—specifically After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro.
- Storytelling: High proficiency in PowerPoint to build visual, narrative-driven client pitches.
Mindset & Work Style
- Agile & Resilient: You thrive in a fast-paced, fluid environment—bringing a sharp sense of urgency, dynamic adaptability, and composure when navigating tight deadlines and evolving client requests.
- Innovator’s Curiosity: You don’t settle for status quo; you’re constantly looking for fresh, highly efficient ways to stretch your skill set and elevate campaign deliverables.
- Autonomous & Detail-Focused: A quick study who takes true ownership of projects, managing timelines and administrative details independently from start to finish.
- High-Energy Collaborator: A positive, dependable team player with sharp written and verbal communication skills who elevates the energy of cross-functional teams across APAC.
What Sets You Apart (Bonus Skills)
We don't expect you to check every box, but experience or curiosity in any of these areas will give you a head start:
- AdTech & Emerging Tech: Passion for exploring DCO (Dynamic Creative Optimization), AR (Augmented Reality), interactive chatbots, and API integrations.
- Code & Web Basics: Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, basic back-end development concepts, or integrating dynamic feeds (RSS, geolocation, search APIs).
- Advanced Motion & Video: Hands-on experience with video compression, editing, 3D effects, dynamic ad server tech, HTML5 standards, and 3rd-party tracking tags.
- Client-Facing Presence: Direct experience co-pitching and leading strategic creative conversations alongside client teams.
Life at Teads
At Teads, we don’t just offer new roles - we blend creativity, technology, and data to shape the future of media. You’ll work with smart humans, meaningful brands, and cool tools, all while helping redefine how advertising works in a world that demands more transparency, better insights, and smarter strategies.
As a Teadster, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region. Here’s why Teads stands out:
- We've merged two open internet category leaders—Outbrain and Teads—to create the ‘new’ Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web.
- As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.
- Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role.
Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.
Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.
Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups – employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.