[Hiring] Associate Director, Creative Strategy @Code3

Role Description

As an Associate Director of Creative Strategy at Code3, you'll set the creative strategy vision across a portfolio of midsize accounts and lead the team that brings it to life. This role is equal parts strategist, client partner, and people leader:

• Architect the testing agendas and creative roadmaps that drive performance.
• Own the room with clients and manage a small team of strategists and designers.
• Think performance-first and story-always, translating data into insights and actions.
• Fluent in the language of Meta, TikTok, and emerging paid platforms.
• Integrate AI into workflows to concept faster and generate variations at scale.
• Take ownership and raise the bar in a quickly moving environment.

What you'll do:

• Own paid social creative strategy across a portfolio of mid to large size accounts.
• Exert mastery of paid social to drive creative performance for clients.
• Design and operate complex paid social testing agendas and calendars.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a small team of strategists and designers.
• Serve as the senior client-facing voice on respective accounts for creative strategy.
• Drive midsize accounts to strategic success by connecting creative decisions to business outcomes.
• Increase performance with metric evidence by pushing your team to embrace best practices.
• Turn performance data into insights, learnings, and actions.
• Oversee the quality of strategies, briefs, hooks, headlines, and scripts produced by your team.
• Champion AI tools and workflows across research, concepting, copywriting, and variation development.
• Collaborate with media, analytics, and account teams to bring campaigns to life.
• Partner with clients to understand their brand, goals, and performance benchmarks.
• Keep up to date with paid social trends, platform updates, and competitor creative.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in paid social creative strategy and copywriting.
• Experience working on large-spend accounts ($500K+ per month in paid media).
• Experience managing or mentoring strategists, designers, or other creatives.
• A history of leading client relationships and driving midsize or larger accounts to strategic success.
• Deep experience building and operating structured creative testing frameworks.
• A proven ability to read performance data and turn it into actionable creative recommendations.
• Extensive experience building and presenting client-facing decks.
• Working knowledge of ad formats, creative testing frameworks, and persona development.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools in a strategic or creative workflow.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience pitching prospective new clients.

Requirements

• Google (Demand Gen, PMax, YouTube) creative experience (nice to have).
• Retail creative experience (nice to have).

Benefits

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as a generous retirement program.
• Thoughtful parental leave and return program.
• Flexible Time Off, holidays, quarterly Company “Recharge” Days, and holiday closure in December.
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Commitment to transparent DEIB practices.