Full-Time
Senior Art Director / Associate Creative Director
Art
Updated on 9/4/2026
WITHIN
201-500 employees
Unified performance branding and media optimization
Compensation Overview
$110k - $125k/yr
Long Island City, Queens, NY, USA
Hybrid
Remote/hybrid work opportunity is available.
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- At least 7 years of agency art direction experience.
- Experience across digital, social, organic and paid, and customer relationship management projects.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating creative ability across advertisements and other forms of communication.
- Strong organizational abilities, including time and resource management.
- The ability to maintain strong relationships with internal teams and clients.
- Attention to detail.
- Generate and develop core, digitally centric campaign concepts for B2B brands.
- Design across social, digital, display, landing pages, and presentations.
- Create multi-channel conceptual frameworks for client projects.
- Pitch creative concepts clearly to internal teams and clients.
- Set and communicate a creative vision that helps brands stand out in crowded, often conservative categories.
- Analyze performance data, understand the findings, and turn them into a compelling and clear creative story.
- Create connections with clients and identify ways to grow their business and the agency's business.
- Lead and make creative work while helping the team elevate everything it produces.
- Contribute strategically to the long-term vision of the brand, internally and with clients.
- Mentor junior team members.
- B2B experience is strongly preferred.
- Direct-to-consumer experience is a plus.
Within is a performance branding agency that blends brand-building with performance marketing to improve clients’ business outcomes. It creates unified marketing strategies that cover the entire customer journey, from awareness to purchase, and deliberately collapses the traditional marketing funnel to optimize media investments and deliver measurable financial results. Working with a diverse roster of established brands, it acts as an extension of clients’ marketing teams, forming strategic partnerships to drive continuous optimization and scalable growth. Its main goal is to maximize marketing ROI and deliver long-term value by aligning brand and performance across channels and touchpoints.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$150K
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2015
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Foot Locker, Orveon Global, and Movado validate WITHIN's enterprise client acquisition.
- 2026 WITHIN interviews emphasize AI-enabled personalization, matching buyer demand for measurable efficiency.
- WITHIN's recurring content and executive interviews signal stronger thought leadership and client retention.
What critics are saying
- Foot Locker's 2024 win ties revenue concentration to a retailer facing margin pressure.
- Indie agency status leaves WITHIN exposed to Dentsu and Omnicom in future pitches.
- If client growth stalls, performance branding gets commoditized and pricing power erodes quickly.
What makes WITHIN unique
- WITHIN won Foot Locker's North America media account after a competitive RFP in 2024.
- Joe Yakuel's integrated operating model unifies digital media planning, buying, reporting, and optimization.
- WITHIN markets itself as performance branding, collapsing brand and performance into one agency.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Phone/Internet Stipend
401(k) Company Match
Hybrid Work Options
Professional Development Program
Company Social Events
Company News
Known as a leading digital marketing agency for retail and consumer brands, WITHIN has partnered with companies like Foot Locker, The North Face and Timberland to rethink how they grow by uniting brand storytelling with performance marketing.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WITHIN, the world’s only Performance Branding firm, announced today that it has taken on the role as the North American media agency of record for Foot Locker, Inc., a leading omni-channel footwear and apparel retailer that unlocks the “inner sneakerhead" in all of us. This exciting partnership follows the earlier unveiling of Foot Locker’s groundbreaking “Lace Up” plan, announced in March 2023 to strategically invigorate growth across the diverse portfolio of brands under Foot Locker, Inc. The plan focuses on four key imperatives: expanding sneaker culture; powering up the Foot Locker, Inc. portfolio; deepening relationships with Foot Locker, Inc. customers across all brands; and delivering a best-in-class omni experience. “Following a competitive RFP process, we’re excited to award the North American media business to WITHIN,” said Katarina Brown, Vice President of Digital Marketing Media at Foot Locker