Creative Strategist

London, UK (Hybrid)

£50K/yr – £60K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end creative direction from ideation through analysis, driving strategic briefs, testing and client presentations across campaigns.

  • Own creative direction, scripting, briefing, and analysis end to end
  • Lead ideation workshops and translate performance data into actionable insights

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Translating strategy and Antenna insights into effective social-first creative ideas for pitch, project, always on and campaign work
  • Write creative briefs across Restless’ full client portfolio, each structured as an experiment with a clear hypothesis
  • Use Restless’ internal AI tools to produce briefs at high volume while maintaining strategic quality
  • Contribute to weekly sprint planning: reviewing results, identifying patterns, and writing hypotheses for the next round of experiments
  • Analyse creative performance to understand what's working, what's failing, and why
  • Leading internal and external ideation workshops
  • In this role, you’ll own the creative direction, driving ideation, scripting, briefing and analysis from end to end
  • Write compelling UGC ad scripts, balancing storytelling and performance
  • You’ll be responsible for developing, testing and scaling high-performing creative that delivers measurable results across Meta and TikTok.
  • You’ll work closely with designers, producers, media buyers and account managers to ensure creative output is strategically sound, performance-driven and executed to a high standard.

Requirements

  • In office 3/4 days per week
  • A strong interest in buyer psychology, storytelling and conversion-driven content
  • Ability to build out, structure a presentation deck and showcase creative concepts to clients with confidence
  • Proven experience in creative strategy, content or performance marketing at an agency
  • Excellent written communication and briefing skills.
  • Strong understanding of Meta and TikTok ad ecosystems.
  • Proven ability to analyse performance data and translate it into creative decisions.

Benefits

  • Be part of an exciting growing business
  • Have the autonomy across the business to make decisions that have real impact
  • 25 days plus bank holidays
  • Work a week abroad
  • Regular team socials
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We build people centred brands.Great change has always resulted from restless spirits who were obsessed with improving something and making a change for the positive.We are an independent, brand focussed, strategic and creative agency who work with established and aspiring businesses to align their business strategy with their brand and design. We use our boundless energy to help businesses adapt to the dynamic ways we all communicate today.Everything we do starts with people.We understand and appreciate brands. They’re like people: we have relationships with them, we love them, we fall out with them, we make up with them. They are unique individuals, each with a personality, a set of values, a drive to connect; to improve themselves and their prospects.We offer a range of approaches to help create and develop a brand through a variety of applications and mediums.We understand that every business we work with is an individual, so we tailor our approach to suit their needs.Restless makes things happen.

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Bishop's Stortford, England, GBR
15 employees (9 in marketing)
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£50K/yr – £60K/yr

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Creative Strategist

Restless · London, UK · Hybrid