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Our integrated acquisition strategy connects best-in-class teams across TikTok, Whatnot, Meta, Snap, and beyond - eliminating the need to stitch together multiple partners. Third blends deep niche expertise with modern execution to launch, operate, and scale commerce on new platforms, transforming culture, creators, and content into real product sales.\nThe Role\nWe’re looking for a highly creative, analytical, and performance-minded Creative Strategist to develop creative strategies and user-generated content (UGC) concepts that drive measurable results for our clients. The Creative Strategist will turn brand objectives, consumer insights, cultural trends, and performance data into compelling creative concepts, hooks, scripts, and briefs. You’ll work closely with creators, editors, and creative talent managers to bring ideas to life - and use performance data to continually make the work better.\nGreat performance creative sits at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, consumer psychology, and data. You’ll constantly study what’s working across social platforms, understand why it works, and turn those insights into new creative opportunities for our clients.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDevelop creative strategy and concepts\nDevelop performance-driven creative strategies across brands, products, and audiences.\nResearch brands, competitors, consumers, trends, and existing creative to uncover new opportunities.\nDevelop high-quality creative concepts, angles, hooks, scripts, and briefs.\nTranslate product benefits and customer pain points into compelling consumer-facing messaging.\nBuild a strong understanding of each client’s brand voice, target customer, positioning, and competitive landscape.\nUse performance data to make creative better\nAnalyze creative performance to understand what is working, what isn’t, and why.\nTurn performance data and creative learnings into actionable recommendations and new concepts.\nDevelop testing strategies across hooks, concepts, messaging, formats, CTAs, creators, and storytelling.\nIdentify winning creative patterns and turn those learnings into repeatable frameworks.\nStudy successful content across TikTok, Meta, Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms to identify emerging creative opportunities.\nBring creative ideas to life\nWrite and/or guide UGC scripts that feel authentic to the platform while remaining aligned with the brand and campaign objective.\nPartner with creators, editors, and creative talent managers to ensure concepts are executed effectively.\nProvide clear creative direction and feedback throughout the production process.\nPresent creative recommendations and strategic insights to internal teams and clients when needed.\nManage multiple brands and creative projects while maintaining a high standard of quality and strategic thinking.\nWhat We’re Looking For\n2+ years of experience in UGC creative strategy, performance marketing, advertising, copywriting, social media, or a related field.\nStrong understanding of direct-response and performance creative.\nExperience using creative analytics or intelligence platforms such as Motion, Atria, MagicBrief, or similar tools.\nStrong copywriting and storytelling skills; ability to generate a high volume of differentiated creative ideas.\nStrong understanding of consumer psychology and what makes people stop scrolling, engage, and take action.\nExperience analyzing creative performance data and turning insights into actionable recommendations.\nDeep familiarity with TikTok, Meta, Instagram, YouTube, and other short-form content platforms.\nStrong awareness of current social media trends, creators, formats, and platform behaviors.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills.\nAbility to move quickly, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and maintain strong attention to detail.\nComfort receiving feedback, testing ideas, learning from performance, and iterating quickly.\nWho You Are\nYou constantly find yourself asking, “Why did this ad work?”\nYou can look at a successful piece of content and identify the hook, angle, mechanism, storytelling approach, and psychological trigger behind it.\nYou love coming up with ideas that can help a brand grow.\nYou know how to turn a basic product benefit into an interesting story.\nYou understand that creative isn’t just about making something look good - 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