About the Role
The Creative Strategist owns the full upstream strategy for performance creative, translating data-driven insights into precise production briefs. You will determine creative direction, manage UGC creator pipelines, and collaborate with media buyers to drive performance across multiple verticals.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end briefing process for all creative assets including static, video, and display formats
- Maintain a rolling content backlog with at least 4 weeks of net-new concepts
- Meet monthly throughput targets for net-new concepts across the company portfolio
- Balance new concept testing with iteration of proven winners
- Analyze creative performance data to identify winners and flag fatigue
- Translate performance findings into actionable creative direction
- Maintain and update the company creative playbook
- Conduct regular competitive creative research to identify emerging opportunities
- Drive cross-vertical learning by adapting winning creative strategies
- Manage the end-to-end UGC creator pipeline including sourcing, vetting, and contracting
- Maintain the UGC creator dashboard as the single source of truth
- Write detailed creator briefs to minimize revision cycles
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with direct response creative strategy and performance media buying
- Demonstrated experience writing production-ready briefs
- Performance data fluency with the ability to translate findings into creative direction
- Experience managing UGC creators from sourcing through delivery
- Ability to work across multiple verticals and formats simultaneously
- Strong copywriting skills for scripts, hooks, headlines, and ad copy
- Experience leveraging AI tools like Claude or AI asset production tools
Skills
- Direct response creative strategy
- Performance media buying
- Data analysis
- Copywriting
- UGC creator management
- Brief writing
- Competitive research
- AI tool proficiency
Location
- South Florida
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote-first
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 to $125,000 per year
Benefits
- Profit-sharing bonus
- Competitive benefits
About the Company
- Profitable digital media company reaching over 30M+ monthly visitors
- Brands include FinanceBuzz, All About Cookies, and OnlyInYourState
- Mission is to connect consumers with leading brands through data-driven content and technology
- High-growth, high-performance culture
Equal Opportunity
- Proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity company
- Committed to a diverse, inclusive team and culture
- Do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics
