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Job Location: Tampa, FL 33624Position Summary

The Director of Performance Creative is responsible for developing and leading the creative strategy that drives customer acquisition and revenue growth across paid digital channels. This role owns the end-to-end performance creative function—from messaging strategy and creative testing to production workflows and team leadership. Working closely with the Performance Marketing Director, this leader ensures creative concepts are data-informed, customer-centric, and optimized to maximize campaign performance while maintaining brand consistency.

• Own the creative strategy across all paid social channels, with a primary focus on Meta.
• Develop messaging frameworks by customer persona, awareness stage, and marketing funnel.
• Create performance-driven creative concepts, testing roadmaps, and detailed creative briefs.
• Analyze campaign performance data and translate insights into actionable creative hypotheses and optimization opportunities.
• Build, lead, and manage internal and external creative resources, including UGC creators, video editors, graphic designers, copywriters, freelancers, and agency partners.
• Establish scalable creative production workflows, processes, timelines, and quality standards.
• Maintain a high standard of creative excellence while balancing speed, testing velocity, and business performance.
• Partner closely with the Performance Marketing Director to align creative strategy with media buying, audience targeting, and growth initiatives.
• Drive a culture of experimentation through structured A/B testing and continuous creative iteration.
• Ensure all creative assets align with brand standards while delivering measurable business results.
• Own creative strategy across all paid social channels (Meta first).
• Build messaging frameworks by customer avatar, awareness stage, and funnel.
• Develop creative concepts, testing roadmaps, and creative briefs.
• Analyze performance data and translate insights into new creative hypotheses.
• Build and lead the internal and external creative teams required to produce content at scale (UGC creators, editors, designers, copywriters, freelancers, agencies, etc.).
• Establish creative production workflows and quality standards.
• Lead the creative vision and maintain a high bar for performance-driven content.
• Collaborate closely with the Performance Marketing Director to align creative strategy with media buying.

• Proven experience leading creative strategy for brands spending $10M–$20M+ annually on paid social advertising.
• Demonstrated success scaling Meta campaigns through creative strategy.
• Experience building and managing high-performing creative teams and production systems.
• Strong understanding of direct response marketing, customer psychology, creative testing, and performance analytics.
• Ability to identify what makes creative convert and build repeatable systems around it.
• Strong leadership, communication, and execution skills.
• Has built creative organizations, not just winning ads.
• Knows how to recruit, manage, and scale creative talent
• Combines creative intuition with data-driven decision making.
• Can build a repeatable creative machine that consistently fuels paid media growth.

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Graphic Design, Digital Media, Business, or a related field preferred.
• Equivalent combination of professional experience, portfolio, and demonstrated success leading performance creative strategies will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 7–10+ years of experience in creative strategy, performance marketing, brand marketing, or digital advertising, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership role.
• Experience in direct-to-consumer (DTC), e-commerce, apparel, fashion, accessories, or consumer products is strongly preferred.

• Ability to lift heavy items (up to 20 lbs.) and stand or move for long periods.

• Base: $120,000 - 160,000
• Performance Bonus: up to 10% annually
• 90-day review with salary adjustment if they exceed expectations.
• PTO, health benefits

"We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law."