Growth-Driven Performance Creative Leader

Solace; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Solace seeks a Performance Creative Manager to lead the creative engine behind an eight-figure monthly paid media program. You will craft a system of channel pods with strategists, designers, editors, and video editors, driving CPA improvement and a scalable creative testing framework.

You will own the analytics foundation, content library governance, and budget for branded production and creator programs, ensuring compliant, fast, high-velocity output across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and more.

Qualifications

• A builder who has stood up teams, systems, and processes from scratch.
• A leader fluent in both creative craft and performance data; you can give an editor frame-level feedback and defend a testing budget.
• A systems thinker who believes velocity comes from infrastructure—taxonomies, libraries, briefs, and cadences—not heroics.
• Excited to contribute hands-on in a high-growth, mission-driven startup.

Responsibilities

• Build, hire, and mentor the performance creative organization — embedded in channel pods alongside media buyers.
• Own creative-driven CPA improvement across all pods.
• Define and run the creative testing framework and kill/iterate/scale decisions.
• Own the creative analytics foundation: tagging taxonomy and naming conventions.
• Stand up and govern the content library and production roadmap with budgets and creators.
• Negotiate brand guardrails and compliance systems for healthcare context.
• Run cross-pod review cadence to transfer learnings across channels.
• Lead regulatory/compliance processes for creative in healthcare.

Skills

Creative leadership

Performance data fluency

Team building

UGC programs

Creative testing at scale

Job description

Solace seeks a Performance Creative Manager to lead the creative engine behind an eight-figure monthly paid media program. You will craft a system of channel pods with strategists, designers, editors, and video editors, driving CPA improvement and a scalable creative testing framework.

You will own the analytics foundation, content library governance, and budget for branded production and creator programs, ensuring compliant, fast, high-velocity output across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and more.