Performance Marketing Creative Strategist

Los Angeles, CA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive creative strategy and testing for paid acquisition across Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and more.

  • Must-have: 3–7 years in performance marketing creative for DTC brands
  • Standout: Proven ability to scale ads profitably with data-driven creative

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the creative strategy for paid acquisition across Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and other channels
  • Develop creative concepts, hooks, angles, and messaging frameworks rooted in customer psychology and data
  • Translate performance insights (CPA, CTR, hook rate, thumb-stop, hold rate) into actionable creative direction
  • Build and maintain a creative testing roadmap (what to test, why, and how to scale winners)
  • Collaborate closely with:
  • Media buyers (to align creative with account strategy)
  • Video editors & designers (to guide execution, not just request assets)
  • Growth & analytics teams (to interpret results and inform next iterations)
  • Analyze creative performance at the hook, body, and close level and iterate accordingly
  • Audit competitors and winning ads across platforms to identify patterns and opportunities

Requirements

  • 3–7 years of experience in performance marketing creative for DTC brands
  • Deep understanding of direct response principles (hooks, offers, objections, urgency)
  • Proven experience creating or guiding ads that scale spend profitably
  • Strong creative instincts backed by data literacy
  • Comfortable analyzing ad performance and speaking in metrics, not just opinions
  • Experience working with:
  • Meta Ads (primary)
  • TikTok Ads
  • YouTube / long-form video ads (a big plus)
  • Ability to clearly communicate creative direction to editors and designers
  • Organized, proactive, and comfortable working in fast-moving environments

Nice To Have

  • Bonus: experience in health, wellness, supplements, or pet brands
  • Familiarity with AI tools for ideation is a plus (but quality control is critical)
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Pearl West

Pearl West acquires, builds, and scales high-growth consumer brands.We partner with brands at key inflection points—whether during founder transition, rapid scaling, or operational reset. Our portfolio includes both acquired brands and brands we’ve built from the ground up, all supported by our in house infrastructure and experienced team. We’re a lean, driven group of builders, operators, and brand obsessives with a shared passion for scaling what matters.At the intersection of finance, creativity, product development, supply chain, consumer insight & channel expansion, our team combines analytical rigor with startup energy to grow a portfolio of high-performing CPG brands. Our leadership comes from diverse backgrounds—marketing, M&A, brand strategy, omnichannel growth united by one thing: an execution-first mindset. Strategy is nothing without momentum, and we believe speed, testing, and relentless improvement are what set good brands apart from great ones.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN
32 employees (16 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.6%
Direct
28.7%
Referral
27.4%
Social
9.7%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~32

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
14 (44% of company)