Senior Creative Strategist (eCommerce)
Job Description
Location: Remote (within US/CA time zone, ideally EST)
Salary: USD $75,000-$85,000 per annum, depending on experience
The Role
We're looking for an experienced Senior Creative Strategist who knows how to turn customer insights, performance data and direct-response principles into creative that drives growth for eCommerce brands.
You'll own the ad creative across a portfolio of eCommerce brands in the USA and Canada, developing concepts, angles, messaging, creative briefs and testing strategies that drive measurable commercial results.
You'll be part of a high-performing cross-functional Squad, working alongside a Growth Strategist, Media Buyer, Visual Designer, Campaign Coordinator and Copywriter. Together, you'll work towards a shared goal: driving growth for our eCommerce clients.
This role is not for someone still learning the fundamentals of performance creative.
Your day to day
Own the ad creative across a portfolio of eCommerce brands, developing creative strategy and testing roadmaps aligned with client growth objectives.
- Analyse creative performance to identify winning concepts, diagnose underperformance and turn insights into actionable testing and iteration opportunities.
- Develop performance-driven creative concepts, including angles, hooks, messaging frameworks, scripts and detailed creative briefs across UGC, video, static and carousel formats.
- Apply customer psychology and direct-response principles to develop creative that addresses customer motivations, objections, awareness levels and purchase barriers.
- Collaborate with Growth Strategists and Media Buyers to align creative strategy with commercial objectives, campaign performance and testing priorities.
- Maintain a high standard of creative quality, reviewing assets and providing clear, actionable feedback that improves both strategic alignment and execution.
- Guide and coach Visual Designers, helping develop their creative judgment, execution and understanding of performance-driven creative.
- Work directly with clients, contributing to strategy calls, content planning, shoot guidance and recommendations that help brands produce stronger creative assets.
- Contribute to our creative frameworks and processes, identifying opportunities to improve how we ideate, brief, test and learn from creative.
What you bring
- 4+ years of experience in performance creative strategy, including substantial hands-on experience with DTC/eCommerce brands.
- Strong experience developing and testing Meta (Facebook & Instagram) paid social creative, with a proven understanding of what drives performance on the platform.
- A proven track record of developing direct-response creative that contributes to measurable performance improvements, with the ability to interpret results and turn insights into smarter creative testing and iteration strategies.
- Deep understanding of direct-response marketing, including customer psychology and conversion-focused messaging.
- Confidence working directly with clients and cross-functional teams, communicating strategic recommendations and constructively challenging thinking when needed.
Bonus if you have experience:
- Working in a performance marketing or growth agency.
- Developing performance creative for other paid social platforms, including TikTok, YouTube and Pinterest.
- Coaching or mentoring designers, video editors or other creative team members.
- Contributing to creative frameworks, playbooks or process improvements.
