Director, Head of Performance Creative

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$90K/yr – $110K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own and elevate GeistM's performance-driven creative across client portfolios, leading a team to craft, test, and scale data-informed campaigns while building and managing a scalable creator network.

  • Lead creative strategy and testing frameworks
  • Build and grow a creator network and production system
  • Present strategies to clients and drive campaign performance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Creative Strategy, Performance & Execution
  • Own creative strategy across GeistM's client portfolio, translating business objectives, customer insights, and performance data into actionable creative plans.
  • Develop concepts, hooks, scripts, briefs, messaging angles, formats, and testing priorities for our content-based paid-social campaigns.
  • Analyze creative performance and turn results into clear decisions around what to scale, iterate, stop, and test next.
  • Build structured creative testing frameworks and ensure learnings are documented and shared across clients and verticals.
  • Personally create, edit, direct, or refine performance creative, including short-form video, static ads, UGC, creator-led content, and campaign variations.
  • Ensure creative is built for the specific platform, audience, funnel stage, and campaign objective.
  • Stay ahead of consumer behavior, platform trends, emerging formats, and changes across the paid-media landscape.
  • Team & Creative Quality
  • Set and own the creative standard across the function from concept through final delivery.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in performance creative, creative strategy, or creative direction, ideally within a performance marketing or digital agency environment.
  • Demonstrated experience leading and developing creative teams while remaining hands-on in creative execution.
  • Deep understanding of paid-social and performance creative across platforms such as Meta, TikTok, and Pinterest.
  • A strong portfolio of performance creative with demonstrated results and the ability to explain the insight, hypothesis, execution, performance, and iteration behind the work.
  • Hands-on experience with concepts, hooks, scripts, short-form video, UGC, static creative, creator-led campaigns, and performance-driven iteration.
  • Strong creative judgment combined with fluency in performance data and creative testing.
  • Experience building or managing creator, influencer, or UGC networks.
  • Experience building scalable creative workflows and high-volume production pipelines.
  • Practical experience using AI, automation, and emerging creative technologies.
  • Strong client-facing communication, presentation, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
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GeistM

3.3 Glassdoor

GeistM leverages proprietary technology and strategic integrations with key players in content creation, distribution, real-time analytics, and social sharing to drive profitable customer acquisition at scale. We offer network optimization, publisher optimization, headline optimization, content creation, content enhancement, A/B and multivariate testing, landing page optimization, network scaling and social scaling to maximize profitable customer conversion and efficiency of spend.

Founded in 2011
New York, New York, US
42 employees (23 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$90K/yr – $110K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
22 (54% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
5.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6

Funding

Last Raise
Pre Seed, 15 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2011
    Pre Seed

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
21.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.2%
Direct
43.6%
Referral
9.2%
Social
6.4%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~41
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Director, Head of Performance Creative

GeistM · New York City, NY · Hybrid