Performance Creative Strategist

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $160K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 7 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the paid social creative strategy and lead cross-channel innovation to drive new customer acquisition, managing concepts, testing, and external partners while turning data into actionable briefs.

  • Define and execute creative strategy across channels
  • Oversee outside creators and agencies with budgets and timelines
  • Turn performance insights into briefs and hypotheses

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own performance creative strategy
  • Develop and own the creative strategy - leading with Meta and expanding to display, email, TV, audio, and others over time - with a focus on new customer acquisition
  • Generate a high volume of creative concepts, from big swings to fast iterations
  • Build and manage a testing calendar that keeps a constant stream of new creative in market
  • Brief and manage contractors
  • Source, brief, and manage a network of partners—designers, video editors, and agencies—to bring concepts to life
  • Balance speed, creativity, and budget across multiple contractor relationships
  • Give clear, actionable feedback to keep quality high and turnaround fast
  • Analyze performance data to identify what's working and why
  • Turn learnings into new hypotheses and briefs, closing the loop between data and creative

Requirements

  • Experience developing and executing paid social creative strategy, with a track record tied to performance metrics
  • Experience managing outside creators, freelancers, or agencies, including budget and timeline management
  • Comfort working with performance data to inform creative decisions
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to write clear creative briefs and give effective feedback

Preferred

  • Experience with Meta media buying
  • Experience working on shoots or creating content yourself
  • Familiarity with fintech, consumer finance, or another regulated industry
  • A curiosity and familiarity with AI tools that can help streamline and improve processes
  • Video editing experience
  • Have your own network of creative partners (content creators, editors, designers)

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package, comprising compensation (salary and equity) and health care benefits
  • Hybrid Work Policy – We operate a hybrid work environment in NYC that prioritizes time together in the office to strengthen teamwork, innovation, and culture, while still allowing for work-from-home flexibility.
  • Flexible PTO
  • Work-from-home equipment stipends; home internet subsidy
  • Paid Parental Leave (offerings for birth giving and non-birth giving parents) Primary & Secondary
  • Enhanced health and wellness benefits through One Medical, Gympass, and Maven Health
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