Associate Creative Strategist, Performance Marketing

Summary

Join Apex Growth, a growth marketing agency, as a Junior Creative Strategist. Translate performance insights into high-converting ad concepts for platforms like Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Drive structured creative ideation, testing, and storytelling. You will bridge media performance and narrative craft, working at the core of the creative engine. This role reports to the SVP of Growth & Creative and involves scaling creative systems, refreshing ad pipelines, and accelerating learning loops. The position offers a competitive salary and bonus structure, along with comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

Experience in a performance marketing, media, or data-informed creative setting

Responsibilities

• Write testable creative briefs aligned to client goals, audiences, and channel best practices
• Develop hook frameworks, messaging hierarchies, and visual/storytelling direction
• Translate performance data and product insights into scalable campaign concepts
• Monitor creative performance metrics (CTR, thumbstop rate, CAC, etc.) across platforms
• Identify top-performing themes, fatigue signals, and cross-client learnings
• Partner with media and analytics teams to package insights into debrief decks and scorecards
• Manage creative workflows for briefs, testing rounds, and asset libraries
• Ensure creative refresh velocity is maintained across pods and client verticals
• Escalate blockers and enforce hygiene around testing rhythm and deliverable status
• Work closely with designers, editors, and content creators to execute on briefed concepts
• Coordinate with media leads and project managers to ensure timeline alignment
• Serve as a collaborative hub across Growth, Creative, and Analytics
• Evolve briefing templates, creative scorecards, and async feedback systems
• Contribute to internal creative libraries and training resources
• Help build systems that support speed, experimentation, and repeatable success

Benefits

• Base Salary: $90,000–$105,000
• Incentives: 10% Annual Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits Package (Health, Dental, Vision, 401(k) Match, and More)
• 401(k) with company matching
• Generous (and by generous we mean unlimited) PTO
• Paid Vacation, Paid Bereavement, and Paid Family Leave
• Full Health Benefits (Dental, Vision, Wellness)
• Learning and career development program
• A great flexible remote work environment—equal parts laid-back startup and motivated meritocracy