Junior Performance Creative Alchemist
(Like a creative strategist - but still levelling up.)
Quick one: In order to apply, please shoot over an email to toby@brightshift.co.uk. Don’t just send a CV - show us how your brain works. Surprise us!
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You know how some people can look at an ad and just get why it works?
Why one hook stops you cold… and another gets ignored?
If you’ve ever caught yourself analysing TikToks for pacing, or screenshotting Meta ads “for inspo,” keep reading - because this role might just be your creative home.
At Bright/Shift, we help the brands who deserve to win, the ones improving health, sustainability, and how people live, by turning performance data into creative firepower.
And we’re looking for someone who’s ready to learn how to do that at scale.
The Mission
We exist to make creativity perform. To use insight, storytelling, and experimentation to build ads that move people and move metrics.
The Junior Performance Creative Alchemist learns to do just that - working at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and performance.
You’ll be trained to think like a strategist, write like a creative, and test like a performance nerd.
The Role
You’ll work closely with our team of performance creative alchemists + head of performance creative. Together, you’ll transform insights into scroll-stopping creative systems for paid social - alongside household brands like Hello Fresh and Butternut Box, as well as a host of the UK's most exciting challenger brands like Heights, Manual and Flow Neuroscience
Your job will grow across three pillars:
1. Insights
* Dive into ad accounts to learn what’s working and why.
* Spot patterns in data and turn them into creative hypotheses.
* Learn how to translate performance results into storytelling fuel.
2. Ideation
* Help brainstorm creative ideas and test angles rooted in insight.
* Support in developing creative routes, hooks, and visual storylines.
* Contribute to workshops and concept decks that make clients say, “That’s the one.”
3. Briefing
* Support writing clear, structured creative briefs for editors, designers, and creators.
* Learn how to give useful feedback that sharpens creative output.
* Keep projects organised and ensure the right details reach the right people on time.
What Success Looks Like
* You’re learning to connect performance data with creative ideas.
* You bring proactive energy and curiosity to every sprint.
* Your ideas and copy contributions start making it into final ads.
* The PCA you work with trusts you to run smaller workstreams independently.
* Clients and teammates feel your clarity, energy, and ownership.
* You growing in confidence to become a fully-fledged PCA within 6 months.
Who You Are
* You’re obsessed with social ads - how they’re made, what performs, and why.
* You’ve maybe worked on content, creative strategy, or performance marketing - or you’ve just been nerding out on it in your own time.
* You love creative problem-solving and want to learn how to turn data into story.
* You thrive in a fast-moving, idea-driven environment.
* You want to grow fast, not just climb slowly.
Tools You’ll Learn
We’ll teach you how to use (and think through) tools that supercharge creative strategy:
* Foreplay - for creative referencing and inspiration
* Motion - for ad performance analysis
* Miro - for ideation and sprint mapping
* Bright/Tracker + CoPilot - our internal AI stack for insights and hypothesis-building
* Slack, Notion, and Google Workspace – for collaboration and calm chaos.
What We’re Offering
* £26–30k DOE
* Full flexibility: Work from our Whitechapel hub, a paid-for coworking space, or your own setup.
* 25 days holiday + bank holidays
* Private healthcare through Vitality
* £400 annual growth fund for learning and development
* A front-row seat to learn performance creative inside a studio that’s redefining how creativity and data work together.
TL;DR
You’ll help us find insights in the numbers, spark ideas in the brainstorm, and turn creative chaos into high-performing content.
You’ll learn how to make ads that not only look great - they work.
If that sounds like your kind of alchemy, we’d love to meet you.