Performance Creative Strategist (Paid Social)

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the data-driven creative performance engine, turning ad results into actionable hypotheses and briefs, then shepherd learnings across creative and channel teams to lift performance.

  • Creative performance analysis: identify top performers, trends, and opportunities across channels.
  • Hypothesis and briefs: translate insights into testable creative hypotheses and data-rich briefs for partners.
  • Learning loop and market intelligence: share results with teams, monitor competitors and market trends, and inform next iterations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Analyse creative performance data – Conduct regular, in-depth analysis of our advertising creative across all performance channels to identify trends, top performers, and areas for improvement.
  • Develop data-informed creative hypotheses – Formulate clear, testable hypotheses based on your analysis.
  • Write compelling creative briefs – Translate your hypotheses and insights into concise, inspiring, and data-rich briefs for internal and external creative partners.
  • Manage the creative feedback loop – Own the process of analysing test results and systematically sharing learnings with the creative and marketing teams to inform the next cycle of iteration.
  • Conduct competitor and market research – Be the team’s expert on the competitive landscape, constantly monitoring for new creative trends, angles, and formats that we can adapt and test.
  • Partner with channel managers – Work as a strategic partner to paid social and search managers, providing them with a steady stream of creative insights to improve their channel performance.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in a creative strategy, media buying, or performance marketing role where you were responsible for analysing ad creative performance
  • An exceptional analytical thinker who has the ability to look at a spreadsheet of ad results and see a compelling story and actionable insights
  • Highly proficient with native ad platforms (especially Meta Ads Manager and TikTok Ads Manager) and analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics, Looker)
  • A natural-born problem solver, driven by an insatiable curiosity to understand why some creative works and other creative fails
  • An excellent communicator who can translate complex data into a simple, clear, and persuasive narrative for creative- and data-minded stakeholders
  • A bridge-builder between analytical and creative minds, earning the trust of both through your rigour and insight
  • Extremely organised and able to manage multiple projects and data streams in a fast-paced, high-performance environment
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MANUAL

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MANUAL delivers healthcare at scale thanks to its comprehensive digital clinic. Our ambition is to extend the healthy years of many lives in the UK, Brazil, and beyond focusing on life-impeding conditions like hormonal imbalance, obesity and hair loss.The company has steadily grown since inception, with $30m funding from leading investors, we're now serving 500k+ patients, across 2 geographies. We are centralising the diagnosis, custom medications, doctor specialist services, behavioural change, and fully vertically integrated management of the treatment journey, under one roof.Innovating on healthcare delivery, MANUAL provides patients with engaging treatment plans generating superior clinical outcomes: 90%+ of patients see an improvement in their Quality of Life (QoL) within 6 months.

Founded in 2018
London, England, GBR
505 employees (72 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend

Recent Ads

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
809.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$5.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.6%
Direct
38.5%
Referral
5%
Social
3%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~463

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
51 (10% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$195.1M
Last Raise
$120M
Convertible Note, 3 months ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2026
    Convertible Note
  • Nov 2025
    Debt Financing • $120M
  • Sep 2024
    Series Unknown • $38.4M