Lead Creative Strategist

Soar With Us; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing agency in the UK seeks a Lead Creative Strategist who will drive performance for top-tier client accounts and develop junior talent within a high-growth environment. The ideal candidate will bring over 4 years of experience in creative strategy and a proven ability to harness data to influence creative direction. This remote position offers competitive compensation, flexible working conditions, and numerous benefits including private health insurance and holiday allowances.

Benefits

27 days holiday + birthday off

Remote working opportunities

Private health & dental insurance

Company pension

Regular team socials and creative workshops

Qualifications

• 4+ years in creative strategy or paid social, preferably in an agency.
• Strong analytical capability with data-driven approach.
• Proven track record in scaling Meta/TikTok creative.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy for high-value client accounts to drive performance.
• Manage and mentor junior strategists to boost team success.
• Work on process innovations and strategic operations.

Skills

Creative strategy

Mentorship and team development

Data-driven processes

Client strategy

Performance marketing

Job description

Lead Creative Strategist

Function: Creative Strategy Dept | Leadership and Management

Reports to: Chief Creative Officer (CCO)

Location: Remote - Access to a LDN HQ

Job Type: Full Time

Compensation: £60,000 - £70,000 DOE

Overview

For You Advertising is the UK’s leading TikTok marketing agency, empowering ambitious, high-growth brands to excel in TikTok commerce. We help brands build a deep understanding of the TikTok ecosystem to drive customer acquisition, launch successful shops, fuel creative pipelines, and deliver measurable results that extend across every channel. As a trusted partner to TikTok UK’s Ecommerce, DTC, and Shop teams, we benefit from dedicated platform support and early access to new product innovations - ensuring our clients stay ahead of the curve.

The Role

We’re looking for a Lead Creative Strategist to join our growing performance team and play a pivotal role in scaling performance across our highest-value client accounts. You’ll bring deep strategic thinking, a strong creative eye, and a hunger to develop future leaders within the creative strategy function.

As a Lead Creative Strategist you’ll work across Tier 1 brands to unlock aggressive paid social growth while owning the mentorship and development of two to three junior strategists. This role blends expert‑level hands‑on delivery with team leadership and high‑impact influence, across both clients and internal teams.

Requirements

Client Strategy & Performance (60% IC Workload)

• Own strategy and delivery for For You Advertising highest-value accounts, driving sustained performance through data‑led creative strategies.
• Deliver measurable account growth through big-swing creative concepts, strong funnel logic, and strategic forecasting.
• Act as the strategic benchmark for the wider team, leading by example across concepting, reporting, communication and culture pillars.

Team Management & Development

• Manage and mentor a minimum of 2 junior strategists, owning the development plans, performance coaching, and progression roadmaps.
• Lead the pods your direct reports sit within, offering hands‑on guidance and support to ensure pod-wide performance success.
• Act as the primary escalation point for performance challenges or operational blockers within your pods.

Department Growth

• Champion knowledge‑sharing by running internal training sessions, contributing to frameworks, and actively seeding insights into CS‑Hub.
• Share external inspiration, frameworks, and industry innovation to raise the creative bar across the team.
• Drive innovation of new frameworks to drive creative diversity.
• Support with onboarding and levelling‑up junior strategists at pace as they join the business.

Process Innovation & Strategic Ops

• Work closely with the Head of Performance and CCO to identify bottlenecks, shape new workflow processes, and stress‑test operational changes within the Creative Strategy Department.
• Feed learnings and macro insights into senior leadership to improve department‑wide systems and growth strategies.
• Support in the upkeep in documentation and databases such as the prompt library, context library and framework database.

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

• 4+ 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.
• Remote working + up to 30 days working abroad.
• Private health & dental insurance.
• Company pension.
• Regular team socials, creative workshops and a culture built around growth.
• Access to a beautiful collaborative HQ in Oval, Central London.