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.