Performance Creative Strategist (paid social)

USA (Unknown)

$86K/yr – $101K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the data-driven creative engine for performance ads, turning signals into briefs and rapid concept tests that push ROI across paid social.

  • Data-driven creative strategy: translate into briefs for internal and external teams producing the ads.
  • Performance-informed testing roadmap: decide audiences, hooks, copy, and tests.
  • Video scripting direction for paid-social hooks, pacing, and story arcs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Crafting highly effective, data-driven creative strategy — and translating it into clear briefs that direct both internal and external teams producing the ads (video editors, designers, UGC creators, freelancers)
  • Reading performance data to drive the work: which personas and audiences to speak to, what creative angles and copy to run, what to script next, and what to test
  • Video script direction — hooks, pacing, and story arcs for paid-social ads (Meta, AppLovin, Snap)
  • Hook frameworks and the creative testing roadmap: what we test, why, and in what order
  • Competitor and adjacent-category creative teardowns, turned into testable bets
  • Translating performance signals (hook rate, hold/thumbstop, CTR, CPA by creative, fatigue) into the next round of concepts
  • Briefing, iterating, and killing creative on evidence — in close partnership with the media buyers, video editor, and marketing leadership

Requirements

  • 3+ years building performance creative for DTC paid social, with results you personally originated
  • Fluency in creative-performance metrics and how creative choices move them
  • Hands-on creative work within the last 12 months
  • Examples of video ad concepts you scripted that ran on paid social

Preferred

  • Hemp/cannabis or other restricted-category experience (alcohol, supplements, nicotine)
  • Foreplay (Spyder/Lens) or similar creative-tracking tooling
  • Direct-response copywriting background

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee discount
  • Flexible schedule
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
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The Hemp Collect

The Hemp Collect is an US based company specializing in open market cannabis products & inputs for B2B & consumer with a focus on award-winning live resin & exceeding industry standards for quality, efficacy, and safety.

Founded in 2018
Portland, Oregon, USA
24 employees (6 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
83.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.7%
Direct
53.6%
Referral
3.7%
Social
2.5%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~24

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
5 (21% of company)