Creative Lead Fellow

3w3 weeks ago

WITHIN

New York City, US · Full-time · $45,000 – $176,000

About this role

WITHIN is hiring 8 creatives into an 8-week paid fellowship designed to be the highest-leverage 8 weeks of your career so far. Most performance creative jobs treat the work as the lesser cousin of brand, but we don't — here performance creative done well is a real craft.

You'll write more scripts, ship more hooks, and see more of your work go live in your first 8 weeks at WITHIN than a brand creative gets in their first year somewhere else. Reps are how taste develops, and the data tells you within 48 hours whether you nailed it.

For your first 8 weeks, you're on Quinn's team — our Head of Creative — working on 2-3 live client accounts and pitching new business. You'll own the work, not shadow it, sitting in on new business pitches and owning meaningful sections of the deliverables.

At week 8, fellows who've shown they can own work at our velocity move into the broader creative team under one of our Creative Directors as full-time Creative Leads. We're looking for three things we can't train: hustle, taste, and curiosity.

Requirements

You've made something real — a TikTok account that grew past 5K followers, a Substack, or a spec campaign that shows your taste.
You can write a hook in 90 seconds that makes someone stop scrolling and can articulate why it works.
You think performance creative is interesting in itself and have strong opinions on hooks, fatigue, iteration, and platform mechanics.
You're already using AI tools in your creative workflow (Midjourney, Runway, Sora, ElevenLabs, Veo, etc.) with strong opinions on which are real and which are hype.
Either you're a recent graduate of a portfolio or design program (Brandcenter, Miami Ad School, SVA, FIT, Parsons, Pratt, Newhouse, RISD, or equivalent) OR you've spent the last 1–3 years building an audience and learning to make things people stop for.
You live in NYC or are moving for this in-person fellowship.

Responsibilities

Pitch concepts daily and ship work weekly.
Write scripts, draft storyboards, and set design direction across video, static, and AI-generated formats.
Work with a team of designers, editors, motion designers, and AI tools to execute your concepts.
Sit in on new business pitches and own meaningful sections of the work.
Watch your work go live within days, not months, and iterate fast based on data feedback.
Own work on 2-3 live client accounts from day one, not shadowing others.

Benefits

Paid 8-week fellowship designed to be the highest-leverage 8 weeks of your career.
Direct mentorship from Quinn, Head of Creative, working on 2-3 live client accounts.
More creative reps in 8 weeks than a brand creative gets in their first year elsewhere, with data feedback within 48 hours.
Opportunity to move into a full-time Creative Lead role after week 8 if you demonstrate ownership at WITHIN's velocity.