Strategic Lead (Creative + Growth) at Soar With Us, London, United Kingdom

Strategic Lead bridging Creative Strategy and Growth Strategy teams within a high-volume performance creative department at a major UK independent Meta agency group, focusing on coaching Senior Creative Strategists, department-wide training in performance and growth topics, macro reporting, and cross-functional system building.

Key Responsibilities

• Coach and manage four Senior Creative Strategists on strategic work for key accounts, helping them connect creative outputs to offer, distribution, performance, and commercial outcomes
• Lead training sessions on growth strategy, performance marketing, media buying, offer, distribution, and constraint-based thinking
• Conduct cross-department audits and performance constraint identification on priority accounts, resetting strategy when performance dips
• Produce regular macro creative reports using the £600M+ Meta data warehouse to surface scalable trends and insights
• Collaborate with the Head of Creative Strategy and Growth Strategy leads to design systems and rituals that align the two functions
• Manage risk mitigation, quarterly reviews, KPI accountability, and individual development roadmaps for direct reports

Qualifications

• 5+ years in strategic roles across performance creative, growth strategy, media buying, or paid social
• Advanced performance fluency including testing structures, scaling logic, attribution, funnels, and CRO
• Ability to audit a Meta ad account in 30 minutes and identify the primary constraint and fix
• Proven coaching or training experience with strategists or junior team members
• Strong constraint-based and reverse-engineering thinking to trace performance bottlenecks to root causes
• Continuous research mindset with daily market scanning and comfort working extensively with data
• Outcome-focused approach tying every task and framework to measurable results
• Kind candour in delivering regular, empowering feedback
• Extreme ownership and strong accountability
• AI-literate with experience adopting AI tools in creative and paid-social workflows
• DTC and e-commerce business model literacy at 7-9 figure scale

Benefits And Growth

• Competitive base salary
• Private health and life insurance
• Company pension scheme
• 28 days paid annual leave plus 1 extra day per year after two years of service
• Hybrid working model (2 days in Camden office)
• One-month annual work-abroad allowance