Darkroom is hiring a
Digital & Ecommerce Strategist

We're building the future of advertising and are looking for the minds to help us do it.

Darkroom is a digital growth agency building and scaling legendary e-commerce & direct-to-consumer companies as well as digital-focused brands. We are a team of industry-leading marketers and best-in-class creatives building LA’s fastest-growing marketing agency.

We are looking for a talented, motivated, and creative Digital Marketing Strategist, who’s motivated and excited by the challenge of developing and executing strategies for brands to help them scale and reach their growth potential. You’ll have our entire agency at your disposal to help guide our customers through our proprietary suite of services.

This is a remote position, and is open to candidates based in the following states: California, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, Texas, or Georgia, and must have the right to work within the United States.

We’re looking for a seasoned Digital Marketing Strategist to join our growing Strategy department. This department focuses specifically on executing custom omni-channel marketing strategies, and growing and scaling e-commerce brands through research, strategy development, and interdepartmental planning.

This person is highly analytical, thoughtful, and personable. Your responsibilities revolve around strategic dot-connecting, enabling client satisfaction, experience, and retention as well as inter-departmental project management.

• Work collaboratively with a cross-departmental team of Strategists, Graphic Designers, Paid Media Managers, Content Creators, and Retention (Email & SMS) Marketing Specialists.

• Build data-driven DTC (direct-to-consumer) brand strategies and positioning recommendations for a range of clients.

• Be the voice of the client across all internal team communications.

• Build rapport with clients to develop a reputation as a trusted advisor and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships.

• Manage integrated growth project deliverables, timelines, and client requests.

• Conduct ongoing social listening, e-commerce analysis, creative audits, insight mining, and consumer and competitive assessments.

• Simplify findings and recommendations to create compelling stories; translate great conceptual ideas into actionable, ‘real–world’ ideas.

• Assist in ideating creative executions, copy, and taglines for clients’ marketing materials including landing pages, advertisements, emails, etc.

• Build, revise & deliver bi-weekly strategy decks on a per-client basis.

• Work with the Director of Strategy to analyze, review, and evolve the effectiveness of campaigns in an effort to maximize results.

• Any other strategic needs that pop up from the internal team or clients to show proactivity and engagement.

Our ideal Strategist candidate is:

• A strategic co-creator.

• An enthusiastic problem solver.

• Equal parts data-driven and creatively-minded.

• Analytically motivated, able to make clear, thoughtful assessments rooted in data.

• A confident communicator – experienced brand architect & organized project manager.

• Familiar with all facets of digital marketing — including paid media, influencer, content & retention marketing.

• Able to independently manage one’s own workflow and assign tasks to others to meet obligations to clients and internal staff.

• Obsessed with digital marketing culture, consumers, advertising trends, social media marketing.

• A lover of research mining with the ability to uncover insights and create actionable, compelling, revenue-driven strategy recommendations.

• Relishes being the strategic “through-line” with Research, Design, Comms, UI/UX, Brand-led change, and Activation practices.

• 4+ years working in advertising or digital marketing (agency experience required)

• 2+ years of relevant experience leveraging digital marketing or strategy in a brand-building capacity

• Strong creative instinct with analytical problem-solving skills

• Ability to bring audiences and strategies to life in compelling ways

• Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building capabilities

• Proven track record in researching, creating, and building data-driven growth strategies

• The ability to interpret performance marketing language (ROAS, CPMs, CPCs, CPAs)

• Robust experience working cross-channel, having touched all aspects of digital marketing from brand-building to new acquisition and performance marketing to content management

• Familiarity with project management tools including Slack, Google Suite, and/or Notion

• Experience with TripleWhale, Figma, Shopify, Facebook/Meta Business Manager & Google Analytics is a plus

Darkroom is a vertically integrated digital agency pioneering the next generation of consumer-facing brands. Our team has been responsible for generating hundreds of millions of dollars in market value for some of the most innovative brands in the world. A category leader in results-driven growth marketing, Darkroom’s success is attributed to our unique partnership model, purposefully built to launch brands to market and accelerate growth across direct-to-consumer. Our model is predicated on four major disciplines — Brand & Identity, Digital Products, Creative Production, and Growth Marketing – threaded by one cohesive, interdisciplinary team.

Taking the startup mindset to the agency space, the collective expertise of our team of entrepreneurs and senior digital marketers are deeply aware of the newest trends in e-commerce, development, and digital marketing. Our learned experience has allowed us to take clients (and internal ventures) from $0 to millions in revenue in just a few months. We work with game-changing brands: Verb Energy, Everytable, VYBES, Joybird, & Maaji – to name a few.

We're building the future of advertising and are looking for the minds to help us do it. We only seek out the best—from our clients to our people. Our team is our most sacred asset, and we offer highly competitive salaries and the following perks:

• Unlimited Vacation Policy, and Holidays: Rebooting is one of the most important parts of growth. At Darkroom, you have access to an unlimited vacation policy and 10 holidays throughout the year to keep you recharged and sharp.

• Location, location, (or no) location: Office and work locations where the most talented people want to live. Employee hubs include Los Angeles, New York, Ukraine, and Albania (Commuter benefits in LA only). Remote work for certain jobs applicable.

• Wellness: Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision benefits with, so you can stay as healthy as can be.

• Finances, growth, and retirement: After one year with Darkroom, we deliver a robust 401k program with company match, and a profit-sharing opportunity so we can help you save as the company grows.

• Creativity at our core: in-house Los Angeles-based studio with some of the best creatives in the business.

• Growth-oriented with endless opportunities: contribute to one of the fastest-growing advertising agencies in the United States.

• Darkroom Labs: internal idea factory with no boundaries. Come up with ideas for new tools, technology, or products

• Work on the best with the best: we are highly selective with who we work with– both clients and team members. Our business development process is characterized by finding “right-fit,” category-leading brands. We look for the people to match.