Senior Creative Strategist, Soar With Us
£50-60k
+ Annual Christmas Bonus
Senior and Expert level
London
Remote from UK
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Digital marketing strategies for eCommerce
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Digital marketing strategies for eCommerce
21-100 employees
B2BMarketingSaaS
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£50-60k
+ Annual Christmas Bonus
Senior and Expert level
London
Remote from UK
More information about location
21-100 employees
B2BMarketingSaaS
Company mission
To become UK's market-leading DTC eCommerce growth agency for premium brands.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years' experience in creative strategy, performance marketing, paid social, or a related discipline
- A proven track record of leading creative strategy across multiple high-growth brands
- Strong experience developing high-performing creative for Meta, TikTok, and other performance channels
- Demonstrated experience mentoring or managing strategists, editors, designers, or creative teams
- Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to connect creative decisions directly to performance outcomes
- Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of what drives profitable growth for DTC and e-commerce brands
- Excellent presentation and stakeholder management skills
- Experience presenting strategic recommendations to founders, senior leadership teams, and key decision-makers
- Deep understanding of consumer psychology, behavioural drivers, and conversion principles
- A proactive, ownership-led mindset with a desire to continuously improve both your work and those around you
- A passion for innovation, AI, and the future of performance creative
What the job involves
- Reports to: Head of Creative
- Responsibility: Lead creative strategy across a portfolio of high-growth brands, driving measurable performance improvements through data-backed creative systems and strategic
- Progression here isn’t tied to time served-it’s driven by impact. If you’re delivering exceptional results, you’ll be recognised and advanced quickly. This is a place for people who want to take ownership, move fast, and play a meaningful role in scaling brands.
- We're seeking an exceptional Senior Creative Strategist who can lead creative strategy across a portfolio of high-growth brands, turning performance data, consumer insight, and commercial objectives into scalable creative systems that drive measurable growth
- This is a leadership role requiring both strategic excellence and commercial acumen
- You'll act as the senior strategic lead for clients, influencing creative direction, mentoring junior team members, and partnering closely with founders, account leads, media buyers, editors, and designers to unlock performance at scale
- You'll be responsible not only for developing winning creative concepts, but also for building the frameworks, processes, and testing systems that enable brands to scale sustainably
- Strategic Leadership:
- Own creative strategy across a portfolio of key client accounts, acting as the senior strategic lead and trusted advisor
- Define and lead creative testing frameworks, experimentation roadmaps, and strategic priorities aligned to client growth objectives
- Conduct quarterly strategic planning sessions and creative reviews with clients and internal stakeholders
- Translate performance data, customer insights, and market intelligence into actionable creative strategies
- Identify opportunities to unlock growth through new creative angles, messaging strategies, offers, and positioning
- Creative Development & Performance:
- Lead the development of performance-driven creative strategies across Meta, TikTok, and emerging platforms
- Analyse creative performance data and transform insights into clear recommendations, testing plans, and optimisation opportunities
- Oversee the ideation, scripting, briefing, and development of UGC, creator content, high-production campaigns, motion, and design assets
- Develop scalable creative frameworks that improve efficiency while maintaining creative quality and performance
- Ensure all creative output is strategically aligned, performance-led, and reflective of client objectives
- Team Leadership & Mentorship:
- Mentor and develop Creative Strategists, providing coaching, strategic guidance, and structured feedback
- Lead editors, designers, creators, and production partners by providing clear creative direction and performance context
- Review and elevate creative briefs before production to ensure strategic rigour and consistency
- Raise the quality bar across all creative strategy output and champion best practices throughout the team
- Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and developing future creative talent where required
- Client & Commercial Leadership:
- Build trusted relationships with founders, senior stakeholders, and client leadership teams
- Present strategic recommendations, creative insights, and performance analysis with confidence and authority
- Partner closely with account leads to improve client retention, growth, and overall account performance
- Proactively identify commercial opportunities that create additional value for clients and support agency growth
- Maintain proactive communication, surfacing opportunities and risks early while guiding clients towards the highest-impact actions
- Innovation & Operational Excellence:
- Stay ahead of platform trends, consumer behaviour shifts, competitive activity, and emerging creative formats
- Champion the use of AI, automation, and innovative creative workflows to improve output quality and efficiency
- Establish and refine internal creative processes, frameworks, and operating systems
- Share learnings, performance insights, and best practices across the wider team
- Drive continuous improvement in creative performance, testing velocity, and operational effectiveness
- Raise the quality and strategic sophistication of creative output across the agency
- Act as a mentor and role model for junior team members
- Influence cross-functional teams including media buying, account management, production, and leadership
- Champion experimentation, innovation, and data-driven decision-making
- Help shape the future direction of Launch With Us' creative offering
- What Success Looks Like (First 6 Months):
- You have established yourself as the strategic lead across a portfolio of key accounts
- Clients actively seek your guidance on creative direction, growth opportunities, and testing priorities
- Creative testing programmes consistently generate measurable improvements in account performance
- You have developed scalable creative frameworks that improve both effectiveness and efficiency
- Junior strategists look to you for mentorship, coaching, and strategic support
- You contribute meaningfully to agency-wide creative systems and best practices
- Your work directly influences client retention, account growth, and media performance outcomes
- Internal teams trust your judgment and rely on your strategic direction
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The marketing landscape for D2C brands is fast-paced and competitive, especially for newcomers in the space. Soar With Us helps these brands thrive by offering omnichannel marketing solutions across customer acquisition and retention and brand recognition.
As an eCommerce marketing agency, Soar With Us has benefited from its partnerships with Meta and TikTok. The latter is becoming an especially powerful method for brand elevation and product advertising thanks to its wide reach and viewership. It also helps brands scale and discover new customers on TikTok and beyond through its ARC marketing system, and even covers Google and Meta advertising.
In 2024, Soar With Us acquired London-based competitor Hambi Media. After a year of partnering as D2C marketing agencies, Hambi will merge into Soar With Us’s group structure, expanding the former’s reach exponentially.
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Company benefits
- 25 paid days holiday: (public holidays included on top of this) plus the ability to build up your holiday allowance.
- Life insurance: Including access to a range of health and wellbeing services.
- Vitality private health insurance: Covers the cost of private treatment (and get 50% off selected gym memberships).
- Simply health cash plan: Cash towards some medical expenses like dental, eye care, and physiotherapy.
- Company pension: We'll help look after future you with monthly pension contributions.
- Hybrid working: You've got the option to be in office, work remote, or a mixture of the two.
- Work abroad scheme: Work abroad for up to 30 days at a time.
Company HQ
The Calls, Leeds, UK
Leadership
Olly Hudson
(Founder)Olly is also the Co-Founder of For You Advertising and Launch With Us. Previously, he was the CMO at JAQ Group Holdings and a Digital Marketing Intern at Prospect Path.
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