Director, Performance Creative Strategy

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of innovative strategists while managing a portfolio of important client relationships.

• Act as a senior strategic partner across major client accounts, ensuring that creative strategies yield measurable business outcomes.

• Take ownership of the team's portfolio, balancing creative performance, client satisfaction, and sustainable growth.

• Present creative strategies, performance insights, and recommendations to senior stakeholders of client firms.

• Provide strategic guidance in intricate client scenarios and pinpoint opportunities for partnership growth.

• Supervise approximately 2–5 direct reports, including Associate Directors and Managers.

• Mentor leaders in strategic thinking, creative judgment, client leadership, and performance marketing expertise.

• Oversee staffing decisions, team capacity, and resource planning.

• Direct Performance Creative initiatives for new business prospects, including RFPs, pitch strategies, presentations, and face-to-face meetings.

• Collaborate with Media, Strategy, UGC/INF, Client Services, Design Production, and Operations to develop creative solutions.

• Enhance processes, testing frameworks, departmental standards, and operational methods.

• Advocate for AI and emerging technologies in creative strategy, production workflows, and operational efficiencies.

• Contribute to departmental planning, resource distribution, and operational choices.

• Work collaboratively across agency disciplines to deliver performance-driven creative throughout the customer journey.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in an advertising, creative, or digital marketing agency, including 5+ years leading Performance Creative for paid media clients.

• Proven track record in leading and nurturing high-performing teams, including mentoring senior-level talent.

• Extensive expertise in Performance Creative across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Amazon, Programmatic, Display, and emerging paid media channels.

• History of translating performance insights into scalable creative strategies, testing frameworks, and verifiable creative learnings.

• Experience managing senior client relationships, conducting executive presentations, and acting as a trusted strategic adviser.

• Background in leading new business initiatives, including RFP strategy, in-person pitches, and cross-functional proposal development.

• Strong operational and business insight, including staffing plans, scopes of work, resource planning, and departmental growth.

• Ability to influence across various disciplines and forge partnerships with Media, Client Services, Strategy, Production, and Operations.

• Practical experience in applying AI and emerging technologies to enhance creative strategy, workflows, and team productivity.

• Outstanding communication, presentation, and problem-solving capabilities.

• A builder’s mindset focused on developing better systems, nurturing talent, and advancing Performance Creative practices.

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.; this position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first culture.

• Unlimited PTO.

• Extended Holiday break (Winter).

• Flexible schedules.

• 100% paid parental leave.

• 401(k) matching.

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Pet Insurance.

• Sponsored life insurance.

• Short Term Disability insurance and additional voluntary insurance.

• Annual Class Pass credits.

• Annual performance bonus component, based on company, department, and individual performance.