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.