Location
Hybrid, Central London (Camden Roundhouse)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£70,000 + Benefits Scheme + 28 Days Paid Holiday + Private Health

About the Role
Join Soar With Us as a Creative Performance Lead within the Creative Strategy leadership team at the UK's largest performance creative department. You will be part of Hambi Media, the creative engine of the Soar Group, the UK's #1 independent Meta agency group. Managing over £100M in ad spend yearly and operating 13 creative pods, the Creative Strategy department is the group's biggest revenue driver, producing performance creative across High Production video, UGC, and Static design for 7-9 figure DTC and e-commerce brands.

As a key member of the six-person Creative Strategy leadership team, you will act as the bridge between Growth Strategy and Creative Strategy functions. Your role focuses on coaching Senior Creative Strategists to elevate their strategic thinking, leading departmental training on growth strategy and performance, and collaborating with the Growth Strategy team to build integrated systems and rituals.

You will leverage a £600M+ Meta data warehouse to extract macro creative insights, trends, and tactical plays that impact all accounts. This Creative Lead-level role involves 40% billable time embedded in strategic support and 60% dedicated to cross-departmental upskilling, performance constraint work, macro reporting, and fostering cross-functional synergy.

If you have 5+ years of experience in growth strategy, performance marketing, media buying, or creative strategy and a passion for coaching others to think strategically, this role offers a unique opportunity to influence every client engagement across the group.

Experience
- 5+ years in a strategic role within performance creative, growth strategy, media buying, or paid social, ideally with exposure to all.
- Deep fluency in performance marketing including testing structures, scaling logic, attribution, funnels, and CRO.
- Ability to audit Meta ad accounts quickly and identify key constraints and solutions.
- Strong understanding of how creative strategy integrates into the wider commercial growth ecosystem.
- Proven coaching experience with strategists or junior team members.
- Skilled in constraint-based thinking to reverse-engineer performance bottlenecks.
- Data-driven mindset with continuous market research and insight generation.
- Outcome-focused with measurable impact from tasks, frameworks, and training.
- Comfortable delivering direct, honest feedback that empowers others.
- Demonstrates extreme ownership and accountability.
- AI-literate and tech-enabled, familiar with AI tools and workflows.
- Knowledge of DTC and e-commerce business models at 7-9 figure scale.

About You
- Strategic thinker with a coaching mindset and passion for developing others.
- Collaborative leader able to build bridges between creative and growth teams.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, data-rich environment.
- Confident communicator with a focus on measurable outcomes.
- Adaptable and proactive in shaping new systems and processes.
- Enthusiastic about leveraging AI and technology to enhance creative and paid social workflows.

Qualifications
- Formal qualifications are not specified; emphasis is on relevant experience and strategic capability.
- Nice-to-have: experience running training sessions or workshops, prior brand-side and agency-side experience, familiarity with internal frameworks such as macro/micro personas, Growth Compass, and CSOS.