Performance Creative Designer

ThirdLove; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + equity

Paid parental leave

Flex time off

Discounted and free products

Job summary

ThirdLove is looking for a Performance Creative Designer in San Francisco. In this role, you will own the creative output for our paid media, focusing on producing ads across platforms like Meta, TikTok, and Pinterest. This performance-driven position requires a deep understanding of what makes ads effective.

Successful candidates will have 3-5 years in a performance advertising role and strong design skills. We offer competitive compensation, equity, and a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years in a DTC or e-commerce paid creative environment.
• Strong static and motion design skills.
• Comfortable in a high-volume, test-and-learn environment.

Responsibilities

• Produce static, motion, and video ads for paid marketing channels.
• Partner with the paid media team on creative briefs.
• Use AI-assisted design tools for efficient production.

Skills

Performance advertising

Static design

Motion design

Video editing

Paid social understanding

AI tools evaluation

Job description

For too long, the bra industry was stuck in outdated ideas, forcing women to choose between feeling sexy or comfortable. So in 2013, Heidi Zak and Ra’el Cohen created Thirdlove–a third, better option designed to help women look and feel their best.

Prioritizing real-world fit over outdated standards, Thirdlove disrupted the industry by inventing half-cup sizes and the Fitting Room® quiz. The result was a more precise fit that offered comfort without sacrificing style. Today, Thirdlove remains an innovative design-led brand, handling everything from R&D to the supply chain in-house to get every detailjust right.

How We Work

Our culture is inclusive, collaborative, fast-paced, and data-driven. We’ve been certified as a Great Place to Work® for four consecutive years, based on feedback from our own team. If you want to make an impact while propelling your career forward, we’d love to hear from you.

What We Are Looking For

We’re hiring a Performance Creative Designer to own the creative output of our paid media engine. This isn’t a brand design role — it’s a performance role. You’ll be responsible for producing the ads that drive new customer acquisition across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Google, Display, and CTV, and you’ll be doing it with a sharp understanding of what works and why.

You’ll work in close partnership with our paid media team, who will lead the data and brief side, while you bring the visual direction and production. Together you’ll run a fast, iterative creative loop built on real performance signals. You’ll also collaborate with our internal Brand and Creative teams to make sure everything that goes into market is on‑brand and product‑accurate.

This is a role for someone who has made performance ads and who understands the difference between creative that earns attention and creative that drives conversion.

What You Will Own And How You Will Make A Difference

Own paid creative production end-to-end

• Produce static, motion, and video ad formats across key paid marketing channels such as Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and CTV
• Manage creative from brief to final asset — fast, at volume, and without sacrificing quality
• Maintain brand voice, product accuracy, and visual consistency across every ad that goes out the door

Drive the creative strategy

• Partner with our paid media team on daily creative briefs and the feedback loop
• Translate performance hypotheses into visual concepts using our creative framework
• Study channel metrics and best practices together to inform what we make next
• Maintain a competitive edge by monitoring and leveraging emerging trends
• Collaborate to identify creative fatigue, flag underperformers, and move quickly on replacements

Use AI to go faster without going shallow

• Partner in the evaluation and selection of AI technologies, maintaining a discerning yet receptive outlook
• Use AI‑assisted design tools to produce iteration and format variants at scale freeing time for the concept work that actually matters
• Stay current on emerging AI tools in the creative space and bring new capabilities to the team

Operate as a strategic creative partner

• Collaborate with Paid, Brand, and Creative teams to ensure paid work reflects the ThirdLove visual identity
• Develop a deep understanding of our product — fit, fabric, innovation — so creative is always product‑credible
• Contribute to seasonal creative strategy and shot list planning alongside the Sr. Video Lead

You Have

• 3–5 years in a DTC or e-commerce paid creative environment — you’ve made performance ads, not just brand ads
• Strong static and motion design skills; video editing capability required
• Deep understanding of paid social formats, specs, and platform behavior across Meta, TikTok, and Pinterest
• Experience with creative testing frameworks: hook testing, format optimization, fatigue identification
• Comfortable in a high‑volume, test‑and‑learn environment — you ship a lot and you ship it clean
• An evaluative relationship with AI and automation tools — genuinely interested in their potential and willing to champion them, but equally willing to question the output
• Strong visual communication skills with an eye for what stops a scroll
• Familiarity with performance data — you don’t need to run the analysis, but you need to read a creative report and know what to do with it

Bonus if you have

• Experience working closely with media buyers or performance marketers
• Experience managing or directing AI execution tools

ThirdLove Offers You

• Competitive salary + equity
• Paid parental leave
• Flex time off
• Discounted and free products

Diversity

ThirdLove is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at the company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetics, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

ThirdLove is an E‑Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I‑9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information please visit E‑Verify.

Thirdlove is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable law — including the San Francisco and Los Angeles City and County Fair Chance Ordinances and the California Fair Chance Act.

Compensation

85-95K annual base compensation