Creative Director, Performance Advertising

Creatify Lab

$120K — $150K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in creative direction, paid social advertising, or agency-side performance creative
  • Strong conceptual thinker with instinctive knowledge of effective messaging
  • Deep knowledge of social-first ad formats and user behavior on major platforms
  • Data-driven decision-maker who prioritizes metrics
  • Systems thinker capable of designing scalable frameworks
  • Excellent communicator able to present and simplify complex ideas
  • Experience managing creative teams in fast-paced environments

Responsibilities

  • Own creative strategy for social video ads on Meta, TikTok, and YouTube
  • Develop innovative ad concepts focusing on rapid testing
  • Write conversational, platform-native scripts optimized for audience engagement
  • Manage and mentor a high-output creative team
  • Act as the creative face of Creatify to key clients, presenting strategies and building trust
  • Design AI-powered workflows to enhance production and testing
  • Create repeatable frameworks to enable scalable ad production
  • Utilize performance data to optimize successful ads and improve underperformers

Benefits

  • Shape the creative direction in a company transforming ad production
  • Join a Series A company with established revenue and a growing customer base
  • Work with cutting-edge AI tools ahead of industry trends
  • Be part of a small team where every idea has potential for impact
Full Job Description
What You'll Do
  • Own creative strategy for paid social video ads across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube-focused on CTR, CPA, and ROAS.
  • Develop ad concepts from scratch: hooks, angles, narratives, and formats built for rapid testing and iteration.
  • Write platform-native scripts that feel conversational and built for the scroll-not the boardroom.
  • Manage and mentor a small, high-output creative team-setting the bar for quality, speed, and ambition.
  • Be the creative face of Creatify to key clients: present strategies, pitch concepts, and build trust as a strategic partner.
  • Design AI-powered workflows that supercharge production speed, creative variation, and testing cycles.
  • Build repeatable creative frameworks and playbooks that enable the team to produce ads at scale.
  • Use performance data to scale winners, kill underperformers, and iterate fast.
Who You Are

A hands-on creative leader equally comfortable whiteboarding concepts, jumping into CapCut, or prompting an AI model. Builder energy, not manager energy.
  • 3+ years in creative direction, paid social advertising, or agency-side performance creative.
  • Strong conceptual thinker-you instinctively know what hooks and messaging drive action.
  • Deep fluency in social-first ad formats and real user behavior on major platforms.
  • Data-aware: you use metrics to guide creative decisions, not just gut instinct.
  • Systems thinker who designs scalable frameworks, not one-off executions.
  • Excellent communicator who can present to clients, rally a team, and make complex ideas accessible.
  • Experience managing creative teams in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.
  • Bonus: ex-creative agency owner or co-founder-you know what it takes to build a creative operation from the ground up.
AI & Tools
  • Hands-on with AI creative tools (Veo3, Sora2, Kling, or similar) and skilled at turning them into repeatable production workflows.
  • Strong AI prompting intuition-you know which formats consistently produce usable, high-quality results.
  • Proficient with Premiere, After Effects, CapCut, or equivalent.

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