Senior Creative Strategist, Performance Marketing
Senior Creative Strategist responsible for producing, directing, and optimizing scaled performance creative (traditional + AI-generated) across Meta, TikTok, YouTube and other channels to drive downloads and engagement for Cantina's social AI platform. Requires 5+ years in performance marketing creative direction, strong data fluency, and experience building testing frameworks and managing agencies.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Produce and direct scaled creative across all performance marketing surfaces (Meta, TikTok, YouTube, mobile ad networks, etc.) with multi-million dollar ad spend.
- Develop performance creative concepts built on intimate understanding of Cantina as a product/platform and its consumer use-cases.
- Build and own processes for producing high volume, iterative ads leveraging both traditional and AI-generated production.
- Define creative strategies and vision for AI-generated ads.
- Own creative performance analytics to track what's working and iterate on best-performing concepts and campaigns.
- Set the creative inputs across creative testing plans to optimize creative.
- Manage external agencies and cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality creative output across all performance marketing channels.
- Lead regular creative brainstorms, reviews, and presentations to internal stakeholders, including leadership.
- Oversee the QC process for in-house and external creatives: Create scalable creative review processes and quality standards that maintain excellence at high volume.
- Stay up-to-date on and apply emerging technologies, production methods, and best practices in performance creative and performance marketing.
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years of experience in creative direction for performance marketing.
- Experience building creative testing frameworks and production pipelines at scale.
- Bias for clear systems and processes.
- Active use of AI tools, automation, and workflows.
- Data fluency: you can build infrastructure to ingest campaign performance data and translate insights into creative direction.
- Demonstrated portfolio of high-performing performance creative, particularly short-form video ads.
- Deep understanding of the consumer marketing landscape and channels (Meta, TikTok, etc.).
- Demonstrated experience collaborating effectively with external agencies and cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrated ability to drive measurable impact (e.g. creative quality improvements combined with quantitative performance improvements).
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation: The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is between $150,000-$200,000. When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered, including skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and generous company equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina.
- 42 days of paid time off, including: 15 PTO days, 10 sick days, 15 company holidays, 2 floating holidays.
- Generous parental leave & fertility support.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Lifestyle spending account – $500/month to use however you’d like.
- Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees.
- One Medical membership, and more!
Skills
Performance Marketing, Creative Direction, Short-Form Video, AI Tools, Creative Testing Frameworks, Production Pipelines, Meta Ads, TikTok, Youtube Ads, Creative Analytics, Agency Management, Data Analysis
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