Creative Strategist

USA (On-site)

$75K/yr – $80K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the creative strategy and testing framework for paid social campaigns across Meta, TikTok, and Pinterest, turning audience insights and performance data into tested, scalable concepts that drive client outcomes.

  • Creative Strategy & Testing: Build and maintain a hypothesis-driven testing roadmap across Meta, TikTok, and Pinterest to optimize formats, hooks, angles, and messaging.
  • Briefing & Execution: Write sharp briefs that direct the creative team across static, video, GIF, AI assets, and beyond, informed by data and strategy.
  • Collaboration & Learning: Align with strategy, participate in client discussions on concepts and learnings, and introduce intentional testing frameworks and selective UGC/influencer formats.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead creative strategy for paid social campaigns across Meta, TikTok, and Pinterest — with a strong point of view on concept, format, and messaging
  • Own the briefing process: write sharp, structured briefs that give our internal creative team real direction across all formats — statics, GIFs, video, AI-generated assets, and beyond
  • Build and maintain an organized testing roadmap that balances structured iteration (hooks, formats, angles) with room for bigger creative swings
  • Work alongside the strategy team to align creative priorities with channel goals, audience insights, and performance data
  • Participate in client conversations about creative strategy — helping clients understand not just what to make, but how much to brief, why each concept exists, and what we're learning
  • Develop frameworks for how creative gets tested and iterated — moving away from the spaghetti method toward intentional, hypothesis-driven experimentation
  • Know when and how to incorporate UGC and influencer creative into the mix — as one format in the toolkit, not the default answer
  • Stay genuinely plugged into what's new: formats, trends, platform behavior, and emerging creative executions

Requirements

  • 3–4 years in creative strategy, paid social creative, or content — agency or DTC brand experience preferred
  • Creative-first orientation: you have a distinct creative voice and you’re energized by concepting, not just optimizing
  • Experience building and owning a creative testing framework — structured, documented, and tied to learning goals (not just volume)
  • Strong briefing skills: you know what a good brief does and you can write one that actually directs creative rather than just describing it
  • Comfort in client-facing settings — you can explain creative strategy clearly and confidently without jargon
  • Your own organizational systems for managing briefs, roadmaps, and test documentation across multiple clients
  • Familiarity with Meta, TikTok, and Pinterest ad formats and what performs on each
  • Exposure to performance data and attribution tools (Triple Whale or similar) — you don't need to live in the numbers, but you need to speak the language

Preferred

  • Get genuinely excited by a new concept — and equally excited by proving whether it works
  • Can tell the difference between a creative swing worth taking and noise — and can explain that distinction to a client
  • Have a system behind your process that you built yourself and can walk someone through
  • Want to be part of a strategy team, not just hand off work to one
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El Toro Interactive, LLC

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El Toro Interactive is a leading Digital Marketing agency offering a targeted variety of Online Advertising, Social Media, Search Engine and Internet Marketing services. We focus on creating brand awareness and driving qualified traffic to businesses targeting both domestic and global consumers.We work with companies of all sizes, including large institutional organizations, start up companies and SMB’s (small to medium sized businesses). This very diverse client base has provided El Toro Interactive with extensive experience and credibility in the Search Engine Marketing field and the Online Advertising/Social Media space.Online Marketing is the core of our business and we have been doing it since 2005. Our team is constantly thinking of how we can over perform and over deliver.

Founded in 2005
USA
26 employees (12 in marketing)
76% recommend to a friend
72% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.4%
Direct
41.9%
Referral
12.7%
Social
10%
Paid
1.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~26

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (46% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
3.8 years