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We’re a product-driven creative company with an in-house engineering team that builds tools to test, learn, and scale what works. We combine strategy, creative, and AI to turn insights into systems, helping brands move faster and make better decisions across every channel.\nThe Role\nThis is a senior leadership role for someone who can sit at the center of client growth, creative performance, and internal execution, and make all three move faster.\nYour job is not simply to oversee deliverables.\nYour job is to make sure the work we put into client accounts wins.\nThat means understanding the client’s business deeply, recognizing that what they ask for is not always what they actually need, and having the strategic confidence to redirect, refine, and shape the work into something that outperforms what is already running.\nYou must be equally comfortable:\nleading creative direction,\n\nbuilding testing strategy,\n\npitching directly to clients,\n\nmanaging high-level relationships,\n\npushing back when necessary,\n\nand translating all of that into clear internal execution.\n\nThis is a hands-on operator role.\nYou cannot lead this from above.\nYou must know how to build strategy, create strong concepts, understand AI production, and step into the work yourself when needed. The team should move faster because your expertise is in the room.\nThis role sits at the intersection of:\ncreative leadership, performance strategy, client trust, and speed.\nThe pace is aggressive.\nClients move fast. Ad accounts move faster. So do we.\nWhat You’ll Actually Own\nClient Strategy & Relationship Leadership\nYou will be the senior strategic voice on key accounts.\nThat means understanding each client’s business model, offer, funnel, and performance landscape, knowing what is working and failing in their account, and identifying where creative can become the growth lever.\nClients will often tell us what they think they need.\nYour job is to identify the real problem underneath the ask and guide them toward the right solution.\nYou should be able to command trust quickly, pitch with confidence, and build relationships that make clients want to follow your lead.\nCreative Performance Direction\nYou are responsible for ensuring the creative strategy is built to outperform.\nThis means:\nbuilding testing plans around real account opportunities,\n\nidentifying which hooks, offers, formats, and angles should be attacked next,\n\nsteering concepts toward performance over subjective preference,\n\nand making sure every batch of work has a strategic reason for existing.\n\nYou are not approving ads because they look good.\nYou are approving ads because you understand why they should win.\nThe expectation is simple: our work should beat what the client was running before we got there.\nInternal Team Leadership\nYou will lead internal creatives, editors, strategists, and producers with speed and clarity.\nYou must be able to take a messy client conversation, extract the strategic signal, convert it into actionable briefs, sharpen weak ideas, and keep production moving without bottlenecks.\nYou are the connective tissue between client expectation and final output.\nPitching, Selling & Expanding Trust\nThis role is highly outward-facing.\nYou should be able to present concepts persuasively, defend strategic choices, handle skepticism, and continually reinforce that we know how to make accounts perform.\nStrong communication matters here as much as strong creative instinct.\nLong-term retention often comes down to whether the client believes we see opportunities they do not.\nWho This Is For\nThis is for someone who:\nunderstands performance creative deeply,\n\nthinks strategically beyond what is asked,\n\ncan lead clients without becoming a yes-person,\n\ncan lead teams without babysitting,\n\ncan pitch with conviction,\n\nand thrives in a fast, demanding environment.\n\nThis is not a clock-in, clock-out role.\nPriorities shift. 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