Senior Creative Strategist

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.

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.
• 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.