Creative Lead, Pitch & Strategy (Pre-Sale)

Creative Lead, Pitch & Strategy (Pre-Sale)

Location: Greenville

Position Overview

A dedicated creative role embedded within Beast Industries' content team, focused exclusively on developing brand partnership creative for MrBeast content. This person translates brand briefs into creative concepts that meet partner objectives while maintaining the integrity, tone, and audience-first philosophy of MrBeast main channel content.

This is not a hybrid role. This person does not work on non-brand content. Their entire mandate is ensuring brand partnership creative is creatively excellent, strategically aligned, and delivered on time.You pressure-test concepts to make sure they'll actually work under a MrBeast production reality. You check ideas against brand KPIs and messaging so we're not selling something the client can't defend internally. And you support brand calls so that when a Sales team member is in front of a client, the creative underneath the pitch is real, feasible, and Jimmy-adjacent.

What you'll actually do

• Partner with content development and writers rooms across all MrBeast channels to understand voice, frameworks, and opportunities for brand integration moments.
• Receive brand briefs from the partnerships team and develop creative concepts, scripts, visual treatments, and pitch materials specifically for main channel brand integrations.
• Partner with the business development and partnerships teams to develop pitch-ready creative concepts for prospective brand deals. This includes visual mockups, narrative walkthroughs, and campaign story arcs that help partners visualize what the partnership looks like in execution.
• Ensure every brand concept meets Beast's content quality bar. If a brand idea would weaken a video, this person kills it and finds a better solution. They are the guardian of creative integrity on the brand side.
• Develop multiple creative options per brief, ranging from light integration to deep narrative involvement, so the partnerships team can present tiered options to brand partners.
• Consult on pre-sales frameworks and packaging. You don't own the packaging (Sales Planning and GTM do), but you consult on the creative anchors — "for a fitness brand launching Q2, here's the creative packaging that'll land."
• Support brand calls. When a Sales VP or Strategist AD is on a call with a prospective brand partner, you may be on the call as the creative voice. You pivot on the fly based on real-time client feedback — "if that's how they think about it, here's an alternative concept that fits."
• Check ideas against brand KPIs and messaging. You know how to translate a brand's marketing objective into a creative anchor that survives internal client scrutiny.

• Maintain a running brand creative playbook that documents the voice, visual language, and creative principles for each active partnership. This ensures consistency across multiple videos within a single partnership arc.
• Serve as the single point of creative accountability for brand content. If a partner or internal stakeholder has a creative question about how a brand shows up on their channel, this person answers it.
• Hand off cleanly to the Production Creative Lead at close. Once the deal signs, the sold creative moves to Production Ops. You stay consultative through execution but don't own it.

What we're looking for (candidate profile)

• 10–15 years of experience in creative direction, integrated creative strategy, or creative-side branded content leadership — either at a top-tier creative agency, a network / streamer / platform creative team, or a large in-house brand creative function.
• Deep understanding of YouTube content mechanics: pacing, hooks, retention psychology, audience expectations. This person needs to think like a content creator, not just a brand strategist.
• Strong visual storytelling instinct. Can concept, storyboard, and present creative ideas in a way that makes partners and internal stakeholders immediately see the finished product.
• Comfortable operating at the intersection of creative and commercial. Not precious about art for art's sake. Understands that brand creative must serve both audience and partner.
• Proven ability to work under compressed timelines without sacrificing quality. Beast's production cadence is not forgiving.
• Experience working with or for major consumer brands (Fortune 500 preferred). Understands how enterprise brand teams evaluate creative and what gets internal buy-in at the CMO level.
• Strategic creative instinct — not just craft. You can be handed a brand brief and generate a concept that both answers the KPI and lives in the creator voice. Craft skills matter, but the pre-sale role optimizes for the strategic fit of the idea.
• Client-room confidence. You can be on a call with a Fortune 500 CMO and hold your own — explaining creative choices, defending trade-offs, redirecting when the client is asking for the wrong thing.