Associate Creative Strategist, Performance Marketing
Offer summary
Qualifications:
Experience in performance marketing or creative strategy., Strong understanding of paid media platforms like Meta, TikTok, and YouTube., Ability to translate performance data into creative concepts., Excellent collaboration and communication skills..Key responsibilities:
- Develop and write creative briefs and campaign concepts.
- Monitor and analyze creative performance metrics.
- Manage creative workflows and testing processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute and optimize campaigns.
Job description
About Us | ApexGrowth.co (Apex Growth) is a growth marketing agency.We provide strategic consulting for companies poised for hypergrowth. We specialize in paid media, conversion rate optimization, management consulting, and custom marketing technology implementation.
Scalable growth requires an investment in engineering and data resources. In particular, we help businesses launch major programs with minimal headcount. Companies turn to us, their outsourced growth marketing team, to solve their most pressing issues related to growth.
Our team’s unmatched expertise in growth marketing, engineering, and product is our way of ensuring that our solutions outpace our clients’ internal abilities and provide exceptional value.
Employment Type:
Remote, FullTime (U.S.Based)
Compensation
Base Salary: $90,000–$105,000
Incentives: 10% Annual Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits Package (Health, Dental, Vision, 401(k) Match, and More)
Apex Growth is hiring a junior Creative Strategist to translate performance insights into platformnative, highconverting ad concepts across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and beyond. This role exists to drive structured creative ideation, testing velocity, and storytelling precision at the intersection of growth marketing and creative strategy.
You’ll operate at the core of our creative engine—bridging media performance and narrative craft. This role reports to the SVP of Growth & Creative and plays a pivotal part in scaling creative systems, refreshing ad pipelines, and accelerating learning loops across paid media accounts.
Base Salary: $90,000–$105,000
Incentives: 10% Annual Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits Package (Health, Dental, Vision, 401(k) Match, and More)
What You Will OwnCreative Briefs & Campaign Concepting
Write testable creative briefs aligned to client goals, audiences, and channel best practices
Develop hook frameworks, messaging hierarchies, and visualstorytelling direction
Translate performance data and product insights into scalable campaign concepts
PostLaunch Creative Analysis
Monitor creative performance metrics (CTR, thumbstop rate, CAC, etc.) across platforms
Identify topperforming themes, fatigue signals, and crossclient learnings
Partner with media and analytics teams to package insights into debrief decks and scorecards
Testing Cadence & Infrastructure
Manage creative workflows for briefs, testing rounds, and asset libraries
Ensure creative refresh velocity is maintained across pods and client verticals
Escalate blockers and enforce hygiene around testing rhythm and deliverable status
CrossFunctional Collaboration
Work closely with designers, editors, and content creators to execute on briefed concepts
Coordinate with media leads and project managers to ensure timeline alignment
Serve as a collaborative hub across Growth, Creative, and Analytics
Process Building & Creative Ops Support
Evolve briefing templates, creative scorecards, and async feedback systems
Contribute to internal creative libraries and training resources
Help build systems that support speed, experimentation, and repeatable success
Who This Role Is Not For.This likely isn’t a fit if:
You prefer creative environments without structure or feedback loops
You rely on visual or copy execution to drive strategy instead of upstream insight and framing
You struggle to manage async workflows or own timelines
You’ve never worked in a performance marketing, media, or datainformed creative setting
Who You’ll Work WithMaggie Valiunas (SVP, Growth & Creative Strategy): Direct manager and strategic partner
Kathy (Creative Strategy Lead): Daytoday creative collaborator
David Mausolf (CoFounder): Strategic alignment and business context
Crossfunctional Pods: Paid Social, Search, Analytics, Design, and Project Management
Career Path OpportunitiesMidLevel Creative Strategist – Lead testing and messaging across core client verticals
Creative Strategy Lead – Own strategy, briefs, and performance feedback loops at scale
Channel Specialist (Meta, TikTok, YouTube, etc.) – Focus on platformspecific creative optimization
What Apex Growth offers:
A great flexible remote work environment—equal parts laidback startup and motivated meritocracy
Daily opportunities to grow your technical skills and capabilities & professional development opportunities within the organization
A highly accomplished executive team with a plan to scale Apex Growth, that works with you to become a major player in the growth marketing agency space
A competitive salary and bonus structure
401(k) with company matching
Generous (and by generous we mean unlimited) PTO
Paid Vacation, Paid Bereavement, and Paid Family Leave
Full Health Benefits (Dental, Vision, Wellness)
Learning and career development program
These benefits are applicable to Apex Growth, US based, fulltime employees only. 1099Contract Providers are ineligible for these benefits.
Still wondering why you should consider joining the Apex Growth team? Hear from Apex Growth Cofounders David Mausolf and Dave Riggs talk about what sets us apart.
Creative Briefs & Campaign Concepting
Write testable creative briefs aligned to client goals, audiences, and channel best practices
Develop hook frameworks, messaging hierarchies, and visualstorytelling direction
Translate performance data and product insights into scalable campaign concepts
Monitor creative performance metrics (CTR, thumbstop rate, CAC, etc.) across platforms
Identify topperforming themes, fatigue signals, and crossclient learnings
Partner with media and analytics teams to package insights into debrief decks and scorecards
Manage creative workflows for briefs, testing rounds, and asset libraries
Ensure creative refresh velocity is maintained across pods and client verticals
Escalate blockers and enforce hygiene around testing rhythm and deliverable status
Work closely with designers, editors, and content creators to execute on briefed concepts
Coordinate with media leads and project managers to ensure timeline alignment
Serve as a collaborative hub across Growth, Creative, and Analytics
Evolve briefing templates, creative scorecards, and async feedback systems
Contribute to internal creative libraries and training resources
Help build systems that support speed, experimentation, and repeatable success
You prefer creative environments without structure or feedback loops
You rely on visual or copy execution to drive strategy instead of upstream insight and framing
You struggle to manage async workflows or own timelines
You’ve never worked in a performance marketing, media, or datainformed creative setting
MidLevel Creative Strategist – Lead testing and messaging across core client verticals
Creative Strategy Lead – Own strategy, briefs, and performance feedback loops at scale
Channel Specialist (Meta, TikTok, YouTube, etc.) – Focus on platformspecific creative optimization
A great flexible remote work environment—equal parts laidback startup and motivated meritocracy
Daily opportunities to grow your technical skills and capabilities & professional development opportunities within the organization
A highly accomplished executive team with a plan to scale Apex Growth, that works with you to become a major player in the growth marketing agency space
A competitive salary and bonus structure
401(k) with company matching
Generous (and by generous we mean unlimited) PTO
Paid Vacation, Paid Bereavement, and Paid Family Leave
Full Health Benefits (Dental, Vision, Wellness)
Learning and career development program
These benefits are applicable to Apex Growth, US based, fulltime employees only. 1099Contract Providers are ineligible for these benefits.
Still wondering why you should consider joining the Apex Growth team? Hear from Apex Growth Cofounders David Mausolf and Dave Riggs talk about what sets us apart.
What Apex Growth offers:
Who You’ll Work With
Maggie Valiunas (SVP, Growth & Creative Strategy): Direct manager and strategic partner
Kathy (Creative Strategy Lead): Daytoday creative collaborator
David Mausolf (CoFounder): Strategic alignment and business context
Crossfunctional Pods: Paid Social, Search, Analytics, Design, and Project ManagementCareer Path Opportunities
Who This Role Is Not For.
This likely isn’t a fit if:
Process Building & Creative Ops Support
CrossFunctional Collaboration
Testing Cadence & Infrastructure
PostLaunch Creative Analysis
Required profile
Experience
Other Skills
- Strategic Thinking
- Time Management
- Collaboration
- Problem Solving