The Senior Director of Performance Creative Strategy is responsible for defining and evolving the creative direction that drives revenue growth.
This role sits at the intersection of:
- Performance marketing
- Audience psychology
- Creative operations
You will architect the creative system that fuels paid media, creator partnerships, retail campaigns, and product launches, while being responsible for paid media performance.
This is not a production role. This is a thinking role with commercial accountability.
Core Responsibilities
1. Define Creative Direction
- Establish and evolve the creative north star across all paid platforms
- Define energy, tone, pacing, and visual guardrails
- Translate data into ICP insights, and ICP insights into creative frameworks.
- Work from data to retention and everything in between.
You will answer:
- What is our arousal band?
- What converts without eroding trust?
- What feels undeniably Everyday Dose?
2. Lead Performance Creative Strategy
- Develop testing hypotheses and creative roadmaps
- Partner with growth to analyze performance data
- Build segmented creative lanes (e.g., relief vs focus vs protein)
- Ensure creative optimizes for:
- Hook rate
- Retention
- CVR
- CPA
You will drive:
- Iteration velocity
- Learning loops
- Scalable creative systems
3. Creator & UGC Alignment
- Define creator content briefs and creative frameworks
- Ensure creator output aligns with performance creative strategy
- Build repeatable content formats
- Oversee content acquisition strategy
4. Team Leadership
- Hire, lead and mentor creative strategists and performance editors
- Elevate creative thinking across the organization
- Foster a culture of high standards + rapid iteration
- Push for excellence without ego
5. Cross-Functional Partnership
- Align with product on launches and positioning
- Support DTC and retail creative needs
- Translate customer insights into messaging
- Partner with CX to mine qualitative feedback
- Cross platform performance creative
What This Role Is Not
- Not a pure art director
- Not a production manager
- Not a brand-only storyteller
- Not a media buyer
What Success Looks Like (90 days)
- Clear creative identity across channels
- Scalable creative testing infrastructure
- Improved blended CAC driven by creative efficiency
- Higher-performing segmented campaigns
- Stronger creative alignment across paid
- A team that thinks strategically, not reactively