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About the Role

The Growth Lead will serve as the commercial growth authority within the Creative Strategy department, bridging the gap between creative execution and commercial performance. This role focuses on coaching senior strategists, identifying performance bottlenecks, and integrating growth strategy with creative output to drive results for 7-9 figure DTC and e-commerce brands.

Responsibilities

• Provide embedded coaching and management for 4 Senior Creative Strategists on their largest accounts.
• Act as the primary voice for data, growth strategy, performance, and media buying within the Creative Strategy department.
• Bridge the gap between Creative Strategy and Growth Strategy teams to align creative work with commercial goals.
• Conduct cross-department audits on priority accounts to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Design and lead departmental training sessions focused on growth, performance, media buying, and offer strategy.
• Produce macro creative reports using data warehouse insights to identify trends and tactical plays.
• Collaborate with the Head of Creative Strategy to design systems that unify growth and creative functions.
• Maintain high standards of ownership, curiosity, and team happiness in partnership with Creative Leads.

Requirements

• 5+ years in a strategic role within performance creative, growth strategy, media buying, or paid social.
• Deep performance fluency including testing structures, scaling logic, attribution, funnels, and CRO.
• Strong understanding of how creative strategy integrates into a wider commercial growth ecosystem.
• Proven experience in coaching or managing strategists.
• Ability to reverse-engineer performance bottlenecks to identify root causes.
• Data-driven mindset with experience in continuous market research.
• Outcome-oriented approach to tasks and frameworks.
• Ability to provide direct, honest, and empowering feedback.
• Demonstrated extreme ownership and accountability.
• AI-literate with experience in AI-augmented workflows.
• Experience with 7-9 figure scale DTC or e-commerce business models.

Skills

• Performance Marketing
• Growth Strategy
• Media Buying
• Creative Strategy
• Data Analysis
• Constraint-based Thinking
• Team Coaching
• Strategic Auditing
• AI-augmented Workflow Adoption
• DTC/E-commerce Business Literacy

Location

• Central London, UK
• Hybrid (2 days in office at Camden Roundhouse)

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years

Salary/Compensations

• £60,000 - £65,000

Benefits

• Benefits scheme
• 28 days paid holiday
• Private health insurance
• Life insurance
• Long-service reward scheme (additional leave after 2 years)
• Company pension scheme
• One-month annual work-abroad allowance

About the Company

• Hambi Media (ECD) is the creative engine of the Soar Group, the UK's #1 independent Meta agency group.
• The company manages over £100M in annual ad spend and operates 13 creative pods.
• Specializes in high-production video, UGC, and static design for 7-9 figure DTC and e-commerce brands.