Senior Creative Strategist - Performance Marketing

Job Description thelab is looking for a Senior Creative Strategist - Performance Marketing to join our team working on paid social ad creative. The ideal applicant has 5-7 years of paid creative strategy experience across a variety of digital channels, including Meta, Pinterest, Youtube, and TikTok, with a primary focus on Meta. This role is key to driving aggressive growth for our clients by delivering the right creative at the right time, on the right channels. This is a hybrid role–both creative and analytical–that bridges media, creative, and client teams.

We’re looking for a unicorn candidate who brings not only a sophisticated understanding of performance data, but also the creative expertise to translate that data into actionable creative strategies and tactics that push our clients forward. We are an agency of makers with deep expertise in solving creative, production, and technology challenges. Our focus is on making better work, to help brands work better. From social media, digital marketing, branding, copy & design, and strategy, to full e-commerce builds, thelab mixes inspiration and hard work to produce results.

The Senior Creative Strategist role will encompass

Creative reporting, involving in-depth performance analysis. You’ll explain the state of our paid ad accounts, designate top/bottom performers across channels, and thoughtfully analyze creative trends based on performance. Because you’ve got both data and creative expertise, you’re able to translate performance into actionable go-forward creative strategies & tactics.

You’ll pitch strategic & tactical ideas, share creative live, present detailed creative reporting to large groups of clients, and field client questions about strategy and platform data on the fly. Developing sophisticated quarterly testing strategies for your clients
. For us, this involves analyzing inputs like competitor & market research, historical performance, and upcoming brand priorities to craft compelling net-new messaging and audience hypotheses. Translating high-level strategy into tactical testing plans & concept roadmaps.

You’ll write tactical briefs for the creative team, scale top performers via smart iteration flights, and provide strategic feedback on edits. Acting as a strategic touchpoint and source of truth for our internal creative team.

You’ll translate reporting for creative teams, maintain logs of test results for team reference, and build tactical “playbooks” to help streamline our production processes and educate the creative team on top-performing ad formats for each client.
5-7 years in-house or top-tier agency experience with a proven track record of leading performance creative strategy across paid social channels. (A trusted partner for our clients who can guide them with paid social strategies that help them achieve their marketing and business goals
~ Deep expertise of the digital landscape and knowledge of platform-specific best practices on Meta, YouTube, TikTok and additional/emerging platforms.
~ Proven analytical ability - you can digest data and turn insights into actionable creative strategy that drives growth.

You are comfortable operating across spreadsheets and storyboards and enjoy using data to tell a story
~ Expertise across capabilities (creative, media, analytics), engaging with the larger team
~ Experience creating and implementing long-term testing and optimization practices
Hybrid work environment - Tues-Thurs in the Madison Square Park office
Benefits include unlimited PTO,
Healthcare/Dental/Vision,
401k company match, and the best snacks in town