Creative Strategist

Calabasas, CA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end creative strategy pipeline for performance marketing, turning customer insights and performance data into scalable, testable messaging systems that improve CPA and drive high-converting campaigns across Meta, TikTok, YouTube/Shorts, and CTV.

  • Develop persona-based messaging frameworks across funnel stages to sharpen value props, objections, RTBs, social proof, offers, and CTAs.
  • Lead performance-informed creative briefs and testing roadmaps, translating data into rapid, measurable experiments with cross-functional execution.
  • Align creative strategy with media, analytics, and CX inputs to sustain high-quality, compliant, and scalable creative systems.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of developing high-performing, persona-driven creative strategy and messaging across paid media channels
  • Lead creative strategy and performance-informed messaging development, ensuring creative concepts, copy, and testing frameworks drive measurable business impact across the funnel
  • Translate customer insights and performance data into scalable creative systems, testable hypotheses, and high-converting campaigns in a fast-paced, evolving environment
  • Own creative reporting and learning recaps across assigned products and verticals
  • Analyze creative performance patterns across hooks, messaging, structure, tone, offers, and claims to inform next steps
  • Translate customer insights, CX feedback, and performance trends into actionable creative testing roadmaps
  • Connect media performance insights to creative strategy opportunities that improve CPA and scale winning concepts
  • Build persona-based messaging frameworks across funnel stages, including value propositions, objections, RTBs, social proof, offers, and CTAs
  • Write high-converting direct-response copy across hooks, VO scripts, captions, headlines, and landing page concepts
  • Develop messaging systems and playbooks that improve consistency, speed, and creative quality

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience in creative strategy, performance marketing, copywriting, or direct-response advertising
  • Experience with Meta, TikTok, YouTube/Shorts, CTV, Looker, Ads Managers, and creative analytics tools
  • Strong strategic thinking, copywriting, creative analysis, and consumer psychology skills
  • Ability to translate performance data into scalable creative concepts and actionable testing frameworks
  • Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally, manage fast-paced creative workflows, and drive measurable business outcomes

Preferred

  • Nice to have: experience with CapCut, Premiere, Figma, Photoshop, or Canva for lightweight creative prototyping
  • Familiarity with AIDA, PASDA, and other direct-response copy frameworks

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • $100/month Health & Wellness stipend
  • Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • $100/month Personal Workspace/Office stipend
  • $1,000/year True Classic merchandise allowance
  • 401(k) plan with 3% company match
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We are the modern classic, bringing the perfect fit and feel to timeless styles made accessible to the everyday man. Our philosophy has always been simple – we started out by just listening to what guys wanted and needed in a t-shirt. Our collection of everyday essentials is crafted with that same ethos and our customers in the driver’s seat. From ultra-comfortable denim (yes, we said comfortable and denim in the same sentence) to that first perfect fitting t-shirt that put us on the map, we design into premium quality fabrics made to last. But it’s about more than just the guys who wear our clothes – we donate thousands of shirts monthly to local communities in need and partner with the Tiny House Project to help solve rising homelessness within the Veteran community. In our journey to help our community look good and feel good, we want to do some good along the way.Sound like your kind of thing? Check out our open positions and join the crew: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/trueclassicteesllc

Founded in 2019
Los Angeles, California, USA
150 employees (23 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
38
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$50.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.6%
Direct
41.8%
Referral
12.7%
Social
10%
Paid
1.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~150

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (8% of company)

Funding

Last Raise
Series Unknown, 11 months ago

Funding History

  • May 2025
    Series Unknown

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