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About the Role

We're hiring a Creative Performance Lead to join the Creative Strategy leadership team at the UK's largest performance creative department. You will be the bridge between our Growth Strategy and Creative Strategy functions, coaching Senior Creative Strategists, leading departmental training on growth strategy and performance, and leveraging data insights to drive strategic improvements.

Responsibilities

• Provide embedded coaching and management for Senior Creative Strategists on their biggest accounts.
• Help Senior Creative Strategists connect creative work to offer, distribution, performance, and the wider growth ecosystem.
• Coach a constraint mindset to identify performance bottlenecks and reverse-engineer solutions.
• Coach individuals intentionally based on their specific learning needs.
• Serve as the primary voice on data, growth strategy, performance, and media buying within the Creative Strategy department.
• Build the bridge between Creative Strategy and Growth Strategy teams, ensuring mutual needs are met.
• Help strategists develop fluency in offer, distribution, scaling logic, attribution, funnel, persona development, and commercial strategy.
• Conduct cross-department audits on priority accounts to identify and resolve performance constraints.
• Run regular creative audits to identify performance trends and feed insights to leadership.
• Map out and lead departmental training sessions focused on growth strategy, performance, media buying, and constraint-based thinking.
• Translate insights from the data warehouse and Growth Strategy team into team-wide upskilling.
• Produce regular macro creative reports from the data warehouse, surfacing trends, insights, and tactical plays.
• Feed macro insights into Creative Strategy momentum sessions and leadership decisions.
• Design and implement systems to ensure seamless operation between Growth Strategy and Creative Strategy functions.
• Uphold standards, ownership, curiosity, and happiness within the team environment.
• Shape the future interaction between Creative Strategy and Growth Strategy functions.

Requirements

• 5+ years in a strategic role in performance creative, growth strategy, media buying, or paid social.
• Deep performance fluency, including understanding of testing structures, scaling logic, attribution, funnels, and CRO.
• Ability to audit a Meta ad account and identify/fix constraints.
• Strong understanding of creative strategy within a growth ecosystem.
• Coaching experience with strategists or junior team members.
• Constraint-based thinking to identify root causes of performance bottlenecks.
• Continuous research and data mindset.
• Outcome-obsessed approach to all tasks and frameworks.
• Ability to provide kind candour and direct feedback.
• Demonstrate extreme ownership and accountability.
• AI-literate and comfortable using AI tools.
• Familiarity with AI-augmented workflow adoption.
• DTC/e-commerce business model literacy at 7-9 figure scale.

Skills

• Performance Creative
• Growth Strategy
• Media Buying
• Paid Social
• Creative Strategy
• Coaching
• Constraint-Based Thinking
• Data Analysis
• AI Tools
• DTC/E-commerce

Location

• Hybrid
• Central London

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years

Salary/Compensations

• £70,000

Benefits

• Benefits Scheme
• 28 Days Paid Holiday
• Private Health Insurance
• Long-service reward scheme (1 additional day of annual leave per year after 2 years)
• Company pension scheme
• One-month annual work-abroad allowance

About the Company

• Hambi Media is the creative engine of the Soar Group, the UK's #1 independent Meta agency group.
• The Soar Group has processed over £300M+ of Meta spend through its data warehouse.
• The Creative Strategy department is the group's largest revenue driver, producing performance creative for 7-9 figure DTC and e-commerce brands.
• The company manages over £100M in ad spend yearly and operates 13 creative pods.