Associate Creative Director, Paid Social

Key Responsibilities

• Lead paid social creative at Grow, translating broader brand strategy into high-performing, on-brand paid social work.
• Manage and develop a team of designers and editors, providing creative direction, feedback, and hands-on coaching to raise the team's craft.
• Review and approve creative from both internal team members and agency partners, maintaining consistent creative excellence across all sources.
• Maintain and model strong design and editing craft, setting the technical and aesthetic standard the team is expected to meet.
• Build structured creative testing frameworks in partnership with Growth and Strategy partners that validate hypotheses, explore new formats, and uncover what resonates with different audience personas.
• Partner with growth and data teams to track performance signals, interpret data, and translate insights into creative direction and iteration.
• Maintain an always-on pipeline of new, diverse creative ideas informed by cultural trends, creator behaviors, community conversations, and platform shifts.
• Develop guidelines, templates, and scalable systems that help the team and broader organization produce high-quality, high-volume social content.
• Monitor competitive landscapes and platform trends to identify new opportunities for breakthrough creativity.

Qualifications

Experience

• 7+ years of experience creating social-first creative in a performance-driven environment, ideally within a growth team, creative studio, or agency.
• 2+ years of experience managing or directing designers, editors, or other creative talent.
• Experience reviewing and giving feedback on creative from both internal teams and agency partners.
• Deep fluency in Meta, TikTok, and other performance channels, including an understanding of how creative influences delivery, CPM efficiency, and conversion.
• Experience developing structured testing plans and frameworks that connect creative concepts to personas, hypotheses, and clear measurement criteria.
• Experience translating brand strategy into channel-specific creative direction.

Skills

• A strong portfolio of work that demonstrates mastery of short-form video, static ads, editing, and native social storytelling. We're looking for someone who can point to work they built themselves, not only work they directed or approved.
• Strong hands-on production and design fundamentals — editing, motion/animation, typography, and composition — with the technical skill to demonstrate technique and give precise, craft-level feedback, not just directional notes.
• A strong grasp of internet culture, meme language, creator trends, and the nuances that make content feel native to each platform.
• An analytical mindset with an addiction to real-time performance data and an ability to translate signals into creative direction.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work closely with growth, analytics, brand, and product teams.
• A proactive, pace-setting, solutions-oriented approach to leading high-volume creative output in a dynamic environment.
• A passion for pushing boundaries while maintaining brand integrity and consistency across all touchpoints.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience.