Creative Director, Performance Marketing

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$190K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive the end-to-end creation and testing of performance creative to maximize ad impact while ensuring a cohesive brand experience across every paid channel and the customer journey.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Build and own the creative testing framework and briefs for rapid sprint cycles.
  • Creative Operations: Oversee QC and scalable review processes to sustain quality at high volume.
  • Channel & Portfolio Alignment: Own P&L impact, align paid and organic creative, and translate insights into strategic direction.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Produce and direct creative across all paid marketing surfaces (Meta, YouTube, CTV, lifecycle, CRO) with tens of millions of dollars of ad budget a year
  • Own and understand the P&L impact of ad campaigns across channels: you’ll partner across teams to ensure coherence across the customer journey from ad impression to conversion and activation.
  • Shape the expression of Owner’s brand across channels, ensuring every asset meets Owner's brand and quality bar and creates a consistent experience
  • Build and own the creative testing framework: write hooks, scripts, concepts, and briefs for each testing sprint.
  • Oversee the QC process for for in-house and contractor creatives: Create scalable creative review processes and quality standards that maintain excellence at high volume.
  • Establish the organic-to-paid creative pipeline: creative feedback loops to identify top organic performers and adapt them for paid channels and vice versa
  • Work with the growth team on performance analytics to track what's working and iterate on best performers

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in creative direction for performance marketing
  • Demonstrated portfolio of performance creative across multiple channels (Meta, YouTube, CTV, lifecycle)
  • Data fluency: you can build infrastructure to ingest campaign performance data and translate insights into creative direction
  • Experience building creative testing frameworks and production pipelines at scale
  • Comfort with full-funnel creative: ads, landing pages, email, CRO
  • Bias for clear systems and documentation
  • Active use of AI-enabled tools, automation, and workflows

Benefits

  • comprehensive health coverage, remote-first workplace, unlimited PTO — plus extra fun perks!