Most agencies treat creative strategists like a resource to max out piled with accounts, stripped of real ownership, and burned out fast. The two founders here came up in that world, didn't like what they saw, and built the opposite on purpose.

A fast-growing boutique performance creative agency working with some of the biggest DTC brands in the space is looking for a Creative Strategist to own a tight book of accounts end to end from angle and concept through to the brief that gets produced, tested, and scaled.

The studio is growing, and growth here means one thing: more direct-response creative that can actually hold spend. The bottleneck isn't strategy or process - it's talent. They need another strategist who can walk in, own accounts, and start shipping winners without being managed into the work.

This role exists to close that gap. You'll run weekly concepts across your accounts, work inside a pod built to move at your pace, and be measured on the number that matters most here: how much spend your creative can carry

WHO THEY ARE

A boutique performance creative agency in its first year, already working with some of the biggest DTC brands in the space and making ads that have crossed a million in spend.

It's small by design. The focus is quality over volume, going deeper with fewer, better brands and earning more per client rather than piling on logos. The ambition is stated plainly: make diverse, high-performing direct-response ads, and be known as the best at it.

What shapes the place most is where the founders came from. Both came up inside other agencies and saw how those agencies treated their people,  so they built this studio as a deliberate reaction to that, around one principle: look after and retain talent first. In practice, that means strategists own their own accounts, the founders and head of performance support them through weekly brainstorms and 1:1s, and the team works in pods so creatives can stay in their zone. It extends to clients too; they have a low tolerance for clients who won't actually run the work, since that wastes their strategists' time.

The culture is casual and fun but serious about the craft, everyone's dedicated and puts in the work. The people who thrive are obsessed with ads, in love with direct response, engaged with the team, hungry for feedback, and coachable.

This is a fully remote, full-time contractor role aligned with GMT working hours.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

• Real ownership of your accounts: Run the strategy, angles, and briefs for your book end to end, not a support seat dressed up as strategy
• A pod built around you: Two video editors, a designer, and a talent manager for UGC, so your ideas get produced instead of stuck in a queue
• A tight book: Around four accounts, so you can go deep on each one instead of spreading thin
• Founders who protect your time: They'll let a client go before they let one waste your hours running the work too slowly
• Real investment in your growth: Courses, workshops, and 1:1 mentoring, inside a year-one studio where the ceiling is wide open
• The full creative range: UGC, VSLs, statics, video, and HIFI across diverse brands, so you sharpen every format instead of getting boxed into one

WHAT YOU’RE GETTING INTO

This role is focused on owning creative strategy across a small book of DTC accounts and turning out direct-response ads that hold real spend — week after week.

You will:

• Own the creative strategy for roughly five client accounts, from angle and concept down to the brief that makes it real
• Ship at least three fresh concepts per client every week, and more when an account is hungry for them
• Write the briefs that direct your editors, designers, and UGC creators clearly enough that the pod can run without you babysitting every step
• QA every asset before it ships, holding the line on quality so what goes live is genuinely worth testing
• Drive the weekly testing loop — launch new concepts, read the results, and iterate winners fast so accounts keep scaling
• Stay close to the media buyers running your creative, using spend and performance signals to decide what to make next
• Use AI and manual research to mine angles and move faster than a team twice your size

WHO YOU ARE

• You've worked inside an agency and know the pace, the multi-account juggle, and what "get stuck in" actually means
• You're direct-response native, DR is how you think about every hook, frame, and offer, not a buzzword
• You can point to ads you've made that have spent six figures, proof of winners, not just a nice reel
• You're fluent with AI tools and use them alongside manual research to ideate, brief, and move faster
• You're coachable and hungry for feedback you want the notes, act on them fast, and get sharper for it
• You're engaged with the team and bring energy to brainstorms and 1:1s
• You're all-in on agency life full-time, GMT-aligned, and here to build, not freelancing on the side

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• 30 Days: You're onboarded and stuck in, writing briefs for your accounts, learning the pods and systems, and directing creative without hand-holding
• 60 Days: You're confident with the flow and cranking out ads at a steady clip, with concepts shipping weekly
• 90 Days: You're hitting bangers on your accounts, your creative is taking real spend, you own your book with confidence, and you're genuinely part of the culture