
Creative Strategist
MUD\WTR
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $90,000 per year
About the role
- Own the strategy behind all performance creative and UGC advertising across paid channels.
- Translate customer research, audience insights, and performance data into winning creative angles and messaging.
- Analyze top-performing and underperforming ads to extract insights and inform iteration strategies.
- Develop clear creative POVs for campaigns, product launches, and evergreen testing.
- Partner with Growth to ensure creative strategy aligns with channel goals, funnel stage, and performance targets.
- Write high-performing ad scripts, hooks, and narrative frameworks rooted in audience psychology.
- Turn insights into compelling, conversion-focused stories that capture attention in the first seconds.
- Build and work within modular script systems that allow for rapid testing of hooks, angles, CTAs, and formats.
- Champion creative experimentation to expand formats, messaging, and storytelling approaches.
- Identify whitespace opportunities through competitive analysis, cultural trends, and performance gaps.
- Use AI tools to accelerate ideation, scripting, iteration, and performance analysis.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in performance creative strategy, growth marketing, or a similar role within DTC ecommerce.
- Proven track record of developing and scaling high-performing paid social creative.
- Strong scriptwriting and storytelling skills with a deep understanding of hooks, pacing, and persuasion.
- Experience working closely with paid media teams and using performance data to inform creative decisions.
- Deep understanding of social platforms (Meta, TikTok, YouTube) and what performs natively on each.
- Strong creative instincts paired with analytical thinking — able to identify patterns and extract insights.
- Experience using AI tools to enhance creative workflows and increase output.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills in a fast-paced, remote environment.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate creative strategy and rationale.
- Self-starter mentality with comfort owning ambiguous problems and building structure where needed.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
performance creative strategygrowth marketingscriptwritingstorytellingdata analysiscreative experimentationaudience psychologyconversion-focused messagingcompetitive analysismodular script systems
Soft skills
analytical thinkingorganizational skillsproject managementclear communicationself-starter mentalitycreative instinctsproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilityattention to detail