Creative Strategist – Paid Intern

USA (Remote)

$25/hr – $30/hrIntern/New GradFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Assist with creative strategy and research to surface patterns that boost performance.

  • Creative thinking and strong visual or conceptual instincts.
  • Eagerness to learn at the intersection of creativity and data.
  • Comfort with AI tools and willingness to learn.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Mine the Meta Ad Library, TikTok Creative Center, and competitor channels for inspiration and competitive intelligence — use AI tools to speed up research and surface patterns you might miss manually
  • Assist with trend analysis, competitive reviews, and creative audits
  • Stay plugged into culture, trends, and what's happening in social creative — maintain a swipe file of strong references
  • Support Creative Strategists on day-to-day account work across several accounts
  • Help build briefs and creative frameworks under the guidance of your Strategist or CD
  • Regularly contribute ideas — every idea should have a "why" behind it
  • Use AI as a daily creative partner — brainstorm hooks, generate copy variations, explore visual directions, and iterate on concepts faster than you could alone
  • Study what's performing on your accounts and form hypotheses about why
  • Learn how creative performance is measured — get comfortable reading hook rate, hold rate, CTR, and CPA and understanding what each metric tells you creatively
  • Learn to recognize winning ad elements (hook type, format, visual approach) and build pattern recognition across rounds and accounts

Requirements

  • Creative thinking and strong visual or conceptual instincts
  • Eagerness to learn — especially at the intersection of creativity and data
  • Interest in performance marketing, paid social channels, and metrics (hook rate, CTR, CPA) — you don’t need to be an expert, but you should be curious about what the numbers mean
  • Strong communication skills — written and verbal
  • Comfort working across teams and asking good questions of people in different disciplines
  • Growing confidence in client-facing settings — willingness to speak up and present your work
  • Ability to take feedback and implement without losing momentum
  • Cultural awareness and a natural habit of paying attention to what's happening in social media
  • Comfort with AI tools — you should already be using AI in your creative process or eager to learn. At Pearmill, AI is part of how we work every day
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    Pearmill

    Pearmill is one of the fastest-growing performance marketing agencies in the US. We’re a group of designers, marketers, and engineers working together to help grow some of the most iconic startups in the world.Our goal is to shift advertising towards a more trustworthy industry by producing beautiful, honest, and high-performing ads.

    Founded in 2018
    New York, New York, USA
    30 employees (23 in marketing)