MUD\WTR

Creative Strategist

MUD\WTR

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited 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

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

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