Associate Director, Creative Strategy

USA (On-site)

$113K/yr – $135K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive paid social creative strategy across a portfolio of mid to large size accounts, leading testing plans, mentoring a small team, and serving as the senior client-facing voice to translate data into strategic creative for business outcomes.

  • Own the creative strategy across Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, and other platforms.
  • Translate performance data into actionable creative recommendations.
  • Lead client relationships and strategic roadmaps.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own paid social creative strategy across a portfolio of mid to large size accounts: ad format recommendations, persona development, messaging angles, and hook frameworks built for Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, and other paid social platforms
  • Exert mastery of paid social (Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, etc.) to drive creative performance for clients of mid to large size
  • Design and operate complex paid social testing agendas and calendars across multiple accounts, defining what gets tested, why, in what order, and what a win looks like, and keeping them on track through shifting priorities
  • Manage, mentor, and develop a small team of strategists and designers: setting priorities, reviewing and elevating their work, and growing their strategic and creative skills
  • Serve as the senior client-facing voice on respective accounts for creative strategy: leading presentations, walking clients through what happened, why it happened, and what to do next, and building trusted advisor relationships
  • Drive midsize accounts to strategic success by connecting creative decisions to business outcomes, spotting risks and opportunities early, and steering the creative roadmap accordingly
  • Increase performance with metric evidence by pushing your team to embrace best practices, new ad formats, and a performance-first execution method
  • Turn performance data (thumbstop, CTR, ROAS, CPA) into insights, learnings, and actions that directly inform the next round of creative and copy across your accounts
  • Oversee the quality of strategies, briefs, hooks, headlines, and scripts produced by your team, ensuring every deliverable executes against the strategy you set
  • Champion AI tools and workflows across research, concepting, copywriting, and variation development to increase creative volume and velocity without sacrificing quality

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in paid social creative strategy and copywriting, with a demonstrated mastery of paid social creative strategy: you know which formats, hooks, and structures win for which objectives on Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Pinterest, and why
  • Experience working on large-spend accounts ($500K+ per month in paid media) that require a high volume of creative ad units, plus the frameworks to concept, produce, and test at that scale
  • Experience managing or mentoring strategists, designers, or other creatives, with a track record of growing their skills and output
  • A history of leading client relationships and driving midsize or larger accounts to strategic success
  • Deep experience building and operating structured creative testing frameworks and calendars across multiple accounts simultaneously
  • A proven ability to read performance data and turn it into insights, learnings, and actionable creative recommendations
  • Extensive experience building and presenting client-facing decks that articulate creative performance and strategy
  • Working knowledge of ad formats, creative testing frameworks, and persona development
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools in a strategic or creative workflow
  • Excellent presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Preferred

  • Google (Demand Gen, PMax, YouTube) creative experience
  • Retail creative experience

Benefits

  • Full medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as generous retirement program
  • Thoughtful parental leave and return program
  • Flexible Time Off, holidays, quarterly Company “Recharge” Days, and holiday closure in December
  • Ongoing learning and development opportunities
  • Commitment to transparent DEIB practices
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Code3 (formerly SocialCode) is a performance marketing partner working at the intersection of media, creative, and commerce, to help brands succeed faster. With more than a decade of experience, Code3 manages digital advertising for disruptor and global brands, across the world’s most powerful platforms including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and emerging channels like Voice and OTT.

Founded in 2009
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
189 employees (45 in marketing)
51% recommend to a friend
41% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$113K/yr – $135K/yr

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Referral
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Paid
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