- Professional
Senior Creative Strategist
Function: | Meta Ads | Performance Creative | Data & Strategy Leadership.
Reports to: Head of Performance
Location: Remote working | We do have a lovely HQ, Oval, Central London.
Compensation: £50,000 - £68,000
Overview:
Hambi Media is the UK’s leading performance creative agency for e-commerce and D2C brands. With an integrated team across strategy, production, design and UGC, we’ve delivered over £100M worth of performance creative for brands including Heights, Surreal, 47 Skin, Mindful Chef and Nutrition Geeks.
Born from advertising and film, we bring together creative excellence and data-driven performance - acting as the in-house creative engine for ambitious brands that want to scale.
The Role:
We’re looking for a Senior Creative Strategist to lead strategy across some of our highest-growth clients. You’ll own creative direction end-to-end - from insight and testing frameworks to concepts, briefs and performance analysis.
This role goes beyond building ads. You’ll help shape our strategic approach, mentor middleweight/junior strategists, and influence how performance creative evolves across the agency.
If you want to drive growth, set creative standards and play a key role in developing the next generation of performance strategists, this is your seat at the table.
Requirements
What You’ll Lead:
- Own creative strategy for a set of high-value e-commerce accounts.
- Build and refine testing frameworks that scale across the agency.
- Partner with the Head of Performance/Strategy on department-level decisions.
- Lead strategic presentations, client workshops and quarterly reviews.
- Translate data into powerful insights, hypotheses and creative direction.
- Oversee concepting, scripting and briefing across UGC, video and design.
- Ensure creative quality and performance consistency across your accounts.
- Mentor and review work from midweight and junior strategists.
- Identify emerging opportunities, trends and behavioural insights.
- Guide cross-functional teams (media, production, design) to deliver integrated creative.
- Support new business pitches and represent Hambi’s creative philosophy.
- Drive continual improvement in internal processes, frameworks and creative output.
What Success Looks Like (First 3–6 Months):
- You independently lead and maintain performance across multiple flagship accounts.
- Your strategic frameworks start being adopted across the wider agency.
- Junior and midweight strategists look to you for direction and development.
- Clients trust you as a proactive, commercial partner in their growth.
- Creative output becomes more structured, more efficient and more scalable.
- You influence the creative direction of both client accounts and the department.
What You Bring:
- 5+ years in creative strategy, performance creative or paid social (agency background preferred).
- A proven track record of scaling Meta/TikTok creative using data-driven processes.
- Strong analytical capability - you turn data into hypotheses and direction.
- Experience leading client strategy and guiding cross-functional teams.
- Confident presenting to senior stakeholders internally and externally.
- Exceptional communication and deck/storytelling capability.
- Ability to manage multiple accounts with clarity and commercial awareness.
- Deep understanding of buyer psychology and performance marketing principles.
- High standards, excellent attention to detail and a strategic mindset.
Who You Are:
- A leader - confident, calm, clear, and decisive.
- Commercially minded with a bias for measurable outcomes.
- Proactive and solutions-focused.
- Driven by growth - for clients, the agency and your team.
- Collaborative and invested in developing others.
- Able to zoom out into strategy and zoom in into execution.
- Thrive in a high-performance, fast-moving creative environment.
Benefits
- Leading D2C client portfolio across multiple verticals.
- Fast progression opportunities in a rapidly scaling agency.
- 27 days holiday + your birthday off.
- Hybrid working + up to 30 days working abroad.
- Private health & dental insurance.
- Company pension.
- Regular team socials, creative workshops and a culture built around growth.
- Beautiful collaborative HQ in Oval, Central London.
