Remote-First Creative Strategist | Performance Marketing

Chief Detective; Arizona; Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Competitive salary

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Chief Detective is a performance marketing agency helping startups and established retail brands scale revenue through paid digital channels. We specialize in e-commerce and partner with direct-to-consumer brands in apparel, beauty, and lifestyle.

Our clients include Rag & Bone, Ursa Major, Buck Mason, Frank & Eileen, and TWP. The Creative Strategist will analyze winning themes, translate insights into strategic roadmaps, and collaborate with Growth, Production, and Client teams to

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in performance marketing, creative strategy, public relations, marketing or a related role.
• Impeccable attention to detail with strong follow through and execution; flawless grammar and spelling
• Positive attitude, collaborative and hard working. You're joining a high performing team who shares the wins and celebrates together.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into insights and recommendations.
• A curious, performance-driven mindset- hungry for wins, driven by growth.
• An eye for design and storytelling, with a pulse on creative trends in fashion and beauty. Graphic design background a plus.
• Strong written communication and briefing skills—able to clearly state test objectives and give direction to creative partners.
• Organized and proactive, with experience managing trackers and ensuring deliverables move on schedule.
• Eager to learn channel best practices across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Google, and CTV.

Responsibilities

• Content Planning: You will create a roadmap of content needs to feed your creative strategy, and partner with your client contacts to get buy in and timely delivery
• Performance Analysis: Dig into paid media data to analyze creative performance, identifying commonalities between winning and losing ads, and translating results into clear, actionable learnings and next steps.
• Creative Testing: Partner with Growth Marketers to structure creative tests-defining objectives, hypotheses, and success metrics while building on insights to guide future concepts.
• Creative Research: Stay up-to-date with trends in the space, constantly identifying formats, messages, content types and more that will help drive successful creative strategies for your clients.
• UGC Briefing & Remote Direction: Support your clients with identifying and casting the right UGC talent and then writing briefs outlining key messaging beats, content delivery needs, and hooks; remote direct shoots as needed.
• Execution & Ownership: Manage follow through on creative strategies, ensuring clients are aware of the 'return on content' and the subsequent learnings, performance, and iterative next steps.
• Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with Growth, Production, and Client teams—acting as the bridge between data-driven insights and creative execution.
• Channel Breadth: Leverage your creative learnings to apply across Meta, TikTok, Google, and CTV-developing expertise in platform best practices and emerging trends.

Skills

Performance marketing

Creative strategy

Public relations

Marketing

Graphic design

Job description

Chief Detective is a performance marketing agency helping startups and established retail brands scale revenue through paid digital channels. We specialize in e-commerce and partner with direct-to-consumer brands in apparel, beauty, and lifestyle.

Our clients include Rag & Bone, Ursa Major, Buck Mason, Frank & Eileen, and TWP. The Creative Strategist will analyze winning themes, translate insights into strategic roadmaps, and collaborate with Growth, Production, and Client teams to