Senior Performance Creative Manager
Permanent Employee, Full-time, Remote, PST Shift
Job Summary:
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Performance Creative to lead paid creative strategy, testing, and production across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, and emerging platforms. This role focuses on developing high-performing creative strategies that combine customer insights, direct-response principles, and performance data to drive growth.
The ideal candidate is a data-driven creative leader with strong DTC e-commerce experience, proven team management skills, and a hands-on approach to creative strategy and optimization.
Responsibilities:
Lead performance creative strategy and testing roadmaps across paid social and emerging platforms
Translate business goals, customer insights, and performance data into creative concepts, messaging angles, and actionable briefs
Develop structured creative testing programs across hooks, formats, offers, audiences, and funnel stages
Analyze creative performance using metrics such as CTR, CVR, CPA, CAC, ROAS, hook rate, and hold rate
Identify winning creative concepts and recommend opportunities to optimize, refresh, or scale
Manage creative production planning, testing volume, and refresh schedules based on campaign performance and creative fatigue
Develop customer personas and messaging frameworks using reviews, surveys, CRM insights, and market research
Build efficient workflows for creative briefing, asset management, reporting, and knowledge sharing
Lead and mentor creative strategists, designers, editors, and other production talent
Collaborate with Paid Media, Product, Lifecycle, Data, Brand, and external creative partners
Leverage AI tools and emerging creative trends to improve research, ideation, testing, and production workflows
Requirements:
7+ years of experience in performance creative, direct-response marketing, growth marketing, or DTC e-commerce
Proven experience managing paid creative strategies across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and other advertising platforms
Strong understanding of direct-response creative principles, including hooks, messaging, offers, formats, and CTAs
Experience developing structured creative testing programs and analyzing performance metrics
Ability to translate customer insights and performance data into creative briefs and production plans
Experience managing creative production pipelines, refresh schedules, and testing workflows
Previous experience leading or mentoring creative strategists, designers, editors, or similar teams
Proficiency with Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, YouTube Ads, Snapchat Ads, Google Analytics, and Excel/Google Sheets
Experience with attribution platforms, creative project management tools, and asset management systems
Hands-on experience using AI tools for creative research, ideation, analysis, or production
Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
Experience in beauty, wellness, health, personal care, or other high-consideration DTC categories is preferred
Experience with subscription products, landing-page optimization, or building creative teams and processes from scratch is a plus