Creative Strategist

Creative Strategist

Hybrid (2 days in the office, 3 remote)

Love big ideas? Obsessed with culture, media, and storytelling? We're looking for a Creative Strategist to join our Sydney team and help shape bold, cross-platform campaigns that connect brands with audiences in unforgettable ways.

At Time Out Group, we're a leading global media and hospitality brand, inspiring people to discover and experience the best of the city. Through Time Out Media and Time Out Market, we connect audiences to the best food, culture, entertainment, and experiences around the world.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious strategist who thrives on bold ideas, creative storytelling, and bringing campaigns to life across multiple platforms, events and activations.

Purpose of the Role

As a Creative Strategist at Time Out Media in Australia, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering innovative marketing campaigns alongside our Australian Head of Creative Solutions and collaborating with the Australian Commercial team.

You'll turn advertiser objectives into compelling creative strategies that connect brands with audiences through content, activations, and media solutions. Expect to work closely with editorial, creative, and sales teams to push creative boundaries while keeping campaigns performance-driven and impactful.

Key Responsibilities

• Ideating creative, impactful campaigns for RFPs that span video, written content, display, social, experiential, and more
• Offering creative solutions for advertisers' needs based on our platforms and products
• Utilising data to conceive of content themes, formats, and more to develop performance-driven program ideas that feel organic for the advertiser and the Time Out brand
• Participating in brainstorms, big and small, from high-budget RFPs to proactive thought starter ideation sessions
• Writing persuasive, on-brand program, display, video, or content series pitches for marketing proposals to bring your ideas to life

Skills & Experience

This role is perfect for a junior strategist looking to step up. You're an ambitious, creative thinker who loves shaping ideas into compelling campaigns and has:

• 1–2 years' experience in a creative, media, or advertising strategy role.
• A collaborative mindset – you enjoy working across teams.
• A passion for media and platforms – from TikTok to Instagram and beyond.
• Awareness of trends shaping the media industry and future consumer habits.
• Strong problem-solving skills and critical thinking.
• Strong ability to multitask and manage varying deadlines, working across multiple RFP responses or projects concurrently.
• Understanding of the digital media planning and buying landscape.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Confidence in building relationships and influencing stakeholders.
• Enthusiasm, curiosity, and a team-first attitude.

Benefits & Perks

• Opportunity to join an award-winning market leader in digital publishing
• Lots of free tickets and opportunities to experience our city's culture
• Flexible working arrangements
• Fun, welcoming and supportive culture
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Paid Parental Leave
• Celebrations - we're big on celebrating and shouting out about great work
• Team bonding and social activities

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 identity; 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.

About Time Out Group plc

Through Time Out Media and Time Out Market we help our large audience go out in the world's greatest cities and connect global brands as well as local talents with this valuable audience.

About Time Out Group
Time Out Group is a global brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city. Time Out launched in London in 1968 to help people discover the best of the city - today it is the only global brand dedicated to city life. Expert journalists curate and create content about the best things to Do, See and Eat across 333 cities in 59 countries and across a unique multi-platform model spanning both digital and physical channels. Time Out Market is the world's first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city's best chefs, restaurateurs and unique cultural experiences together under one roof. There are currently Markets in ten cities including Lisbon, New York and Dubai, with several new locations expected to open in 2025 and beyond, in addition to a pipeline of further locations in advanced discussions. Time Out Group PLC, listed on AIM, is headquartered in London (UK).

About Time Out Market
Time Out Market is the world's first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city's best chefs, restaurateurs, drinks and cultural experiences together under one roof. From award-winning chefs to much-loved local gems, from cooking classes with top chefs to installations from local artists and live entertainment, Time Out Market captures and celebrates the best of the city. The first Time Out Market opened in 2014 in a historic market hall in Lisbon, quickly turning into one of the most popular destinations in the city. The success of Lisbon brought further expansion, and there are currently Markets in eleven cities including New York, Montreal, Dubai and Cape Town, with several new locations expected to open in 2025 and beyond, in addition to a pipeline of further locations in advanced discussions. Time Out Market is part of Time Out Group PLC (AIM: TMO), a brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city through Time Out Media and Time Out Market. Time Out launched in London in 1968 to help people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the city – today it is the only global brand dedicated to city life. Expert journalists curate and create content about the best things to do, see and eat across 333 cities in 59 countries, and across a unique multi-platform model spanning both digital and physical channels.

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.