Creative Director (Performance Media)

USA (Remote)

$95K/yr – $125K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive integrated creative strategy for performance marketing across channels, with leadership in ideation, testing, and AI-enabled asset development.

  • Must-have: 5+ years in performance marketing and direct response copywriting with senior-client presentation experience.
  • Standout: Strong leadership in creative teams and deep familiarity with Meta/Google testing and analytics.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the creative relationship with assigned clients, serving as the primary creative partner from strategy through execution
  • Translate client business objectives into clear, performance-driven creative strategies aligned with media goals
  • Present creative concepts, performance insights, and strategic recommendations to clients and internal leadership
  • Lead ideation rooted in audience insights, platform trends, brand understanding, and performance data
  • Develop scalable creative angles, hooks, and messaging frameworks for rapid testing and iteration
  • Stay ahead of emerging creative, design, and storytelling trends across social and performance media
  • Proactively recommend new creative approaches to improve performance and drive business outcomes, while still maintaining brand guidelines
  • Oversee creative development across paid media channels including social, display, video, native, shopping, and search
  • Leverage AI tools to accelerate ideation, scripting, asset creation, and first-pass concepts while maintaining brand safety and quality
  • Provide clear direction through briefs, scripts, shot lists, and storyboards to guide production teams
  • Guide rapid iteration and optimization (cutdowns, re-edits, new hooks, statics, alternate formats) to support testing goals
  • Partner with media buying teams to align creative strategy with media plans, testing frameworks, and performance insights
  • Measure and evaluate creative performance, connecting creative decisions to measurable outcomes
  • Lead and mentor creative team members in a fast-paced, collaborative environment; design experience is a plus, particularly in evaluating and elevating visual creatives
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Jump 450

Jump is the performance growth engine behind numerous unicorn-level brands, having grown many early stage brands through rigorous performance marketing. We operate in highly competitive environments and industries and do everything required to win in them. Awards & Honors: Forbes 30 Under 30 Inc 5000 Fast Co Best Workplaces AdAge Best Workplaces Meta Success Stories Google Success Stories Acquired by Omnicom What We Manage: Paid Social Media Marketing Paid Search Engine Marketing Paid Display Marketing Paid Video Marketing Paid Native Marketing Paid App Acquisition Paid Amazon Marketing Branded Content Sponsored Content Organic Search Organic Amazon Email Marketing SEO Creative Prototyping & Design Sales Copywriting Conversion Rate Optimization Reporting & Analytics Strategy & Consulting Growth Hacking

Founded in 2015
New York, NY, US
95 employees (27 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$27
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29%
Direct
54.8%
Referral
5.7%
Social
9.3%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~112

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
14 (13% of company)
Median Career Experience
13.5 years
Median Tenure
3.7 years