Performance Creative Strategist

Location: Remote — Canada or North America-based Job Type: Full-time, Part-time, Contract/Freelance Pay: $120,000 to $180,000/year with senior experience, plus a performance bonus paid as a % of ad spend on your winning creatives. About Pearl West Pearl West is a holding company building and scaling consumer brands in the health, wellness, and pet categories. Our leadership came from Mars Men, Gruns, Ryze, and Goli. The Role You will study customers, offers, competitors, performance data, and winning ads. You will turn those insights into angles, hooks, scripts, concepts, and clear briefs that our editors and media buyers can execute quickly. This role is AI forward. We expect you to use AI across research, ideation, scripting, and production. AI forward does not mean AI slop. The taste, the insight, and the judgment are still yours. AI just makes you faster. We are looking for a creative who can ideate, not just iterate or imitate. What You Will Own Build and maintain the creative testing roadmap for Meta Research customers, competitors, market trends, and winning ad formats Develop new concepts, angles, hooks, scripts, headlines, and primary copy Create clear briefs that editors can execute without unnecessary back-and-forth Review creative performance with media buyers and identify why ads win or lose Iterate quickly on winning concepts before performance declines Build repeatable systems for producing and learning from creative at scale Maintain a strong pipeline of new concepts so the account never runs out of tests Your Strengths You understand direct-response psychology and know how to turn customer pain points into compelling creative You understand awareness levels and write differently to each one You can separate a strong concept from a polished but ineffective ad You are comfortable using performance data to make creative decisions You are AI forward: AI is already part of how you research, ideate, and produce, and none of it reads like AI slop You communicate clearly with editors, media buyers, and leadership You move quickly, take ownership, and do not need constant direction Minimum Requirement You have created ads that spent $100,000+ in a single month, and you can demonstrate it. KPIs You Will Be Accountable For Number of high-quality new concepts launched each week Percentage of concepts that produce viable or winning ads Speed from insight to brief to launched creative Total spend carried by your creatives (this is also the number your bonus is calculated on) Your First 90 Days Weeks 1-2: deep research across customers, account history, and competitors Day 30: first batch of briefs live, including net-new concepts Day 60: a net-new concept of yours carrying real spend; weekly learnings loop running Day 90: your creatives carry a growing share of account spend How To Apply All applications go through this form: https://forms.gle/1wLhpfDpiJ4UkXrB7 Due to the volume of applications, we will only reach out to candidates whose experience and qualifications align with the requirements of the role.

The role involves analyzing customer and competitor data to develop creative angles, hooks, and scripts for Meta ads. You will build a creative testing roadmap and collaborate with media buyers to iterate on winning concepts based on performance data.

Candidates must have a proven track record of creating ads that spent over $100,000 in a single month. Proficiency in AI tools for research and production, along with a deep understanding of direct-response psychology, is required.

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• Direct-Response Psychology
• Creative Strategy
• AI Prompting
• Copywriting
• Market Research
• Performance Data Analysis
• Ad Scripting
• Meta Ads
• Creative Testing
• Brief Writing
• Consumer Psychology
• Ideation

• Marketing
• Creative & Media
• Data & Analytics
• Management & Leadership
• Art & Design

Minimum experience

5+ years

Apply by

Feb 14, 2027

Posting language

English

Working hours

40 hours per week

Location requirements

Country, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Seniority

Entry level

Application method

Direct apply is available