Creative Strategist, Paid Acquisition (6 Month FTC)

London, UK (Hybrid)

£50K/yr – £60K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the creative performance engine for paid social by auditing ad history, building an AI-powered hook library, and running a structured, hypothesis-driven creative calendar and testing loop that ties performance signals to concrete briefs and production.

  • Own creative strategy and infrastructure from audit to AI-driven variant production and weekly testing
  • Align performance insights with briefs, audience, and channel decisions
  • Scale workflows with AI tooling to maintain quality as output grows

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Conduct a full audit of the existing Meta & TikTok account – cataloguing every ad that’s run, surfacing what’s worked, and building a clear picture of our creative history and learnings.
  • Develop and maintain a structured hook and angle library, continuously refined using AI tooling to generate and score variants at scale.
  • Own the creative calendar – tracking what’s in production, what’s entering the auction, and ensuring the pipeline is always stocked with fresh, hypothesis-driven work.
  • Design and own a brief template system for all paid creative production – one that gives designers and video producers everything they need to make great work without back-and-forth.
  • Translate performance signals into concrete creative direction. Every brief should have a clear hypothesis, a defined audience, and a measurable goal.
  • Work closely with our Creative team, and external creators to bring briefs to life – acting as the connective tissue between performance marketing and creative execution.
  • Build and manage a weekly creative testing framework with clear hypotheses, a prioritised queue, and a structured cadence for reviewing results.
  • Close the feedback loop between performance data and the next creative iteration – turning Paid Social insights, thumb-stop rates, hook performance, and conversion data into actionable briefs.
  • Work with the wider Acquisition team to ensure creative learnings inform targeting, audience strategy, and channel decisions.
  • Build and scale the AI infrastructure that powers the creative function – including brief generation, hook variant production, and creative scoring systems.

Requirements

  • 3–5+ years in a creative strategy, performance creative, or creative production role, ideally within a DTC, consumer tech, or fast-growth e-commerce brand.
  • Demonstrable experience with Meta & TikTok paid media – you can read a creative breakdown dashboard and know exactly what to do next.
  • Experience building brief systems, testing frameworks, or creative operating models from scratch, not just inheriting them.
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools for creative work – whether that’s Claude, ChatGPT, or other tooling for copy, ideation, or production workflows.
  • Sharp analytical instincts – you’re comfortable in Paid Social ads platforms, understand statistical significance, and can separate signal from noise.
  • Ability to produce static ad creatives independently using Canva, Figma, or a similar tool.
  • Strong creative judgement – you know a good hook when you see one.
  • Highly organised and systems-minded – you build processes that other people actually use.
  • Clear, compelling communicator – your briefs are unambiguous, your presentations land, your feedback is actionable.
  • Proactive and self-directed – you don’t wait to be told what to test. You come with a hypothesis.

Preferred

  • Experience with AI tooling for creative work – Claude, ChatGPT, or other tooling for copy, ideation, or production workflows.

Benefits

  • Flexibility: Hybrid working – expectation of 1 day a week on average in our London office, but you are welcome to come in more than this.
  • Take advantage of our ‘work from anywhere’ policy to work from a different location for up to 6 weeks every year.
  • Summer Hours policy to use between the months of June and August.
  • Health & Wellness: Private Medical Insurance via Aviva, or a Wellbeing Allowance to be used for memberships, subscriptions, treatment or therapy.
  • Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) through WeCare and unlimited access to Dental advice and guidance via Toothfairy.
  • Bike to work scheme to promote healthier lifestyles.
  • Time Off: 25 days of holiday per year, plus bank holidays. Birthday off, plus 1 extra day per year after 2 years, up to 5 extra days. Sabbatical eligibility after 4 years.
  • Family-friendly leave and nursery scheme to support parents.
  • Volunteer days, book allowance, and company socials including YotoFest.
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion with ongoing forums and DEI initiatives.
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