Associate Creative Director (Paid Social)

Join Grow as an Associate Creative Director, Paid Social. In this role, you'll lead the creative direction for paid social, manage a team of designers and editors, and ensure high-quality, high-performing creative output. You'll need strong design fundamentals, hands-on technical skills, and a passion for pushing boundaries while maintaining brand integrity. Benefits include a learning stipend, mental health breaks, unlimited PTO, and a remote office setup stipend.

• Lead the creative direction for paid social campaigns, ensuring alignment with brand strategy and performance goals.
• Manage and develop a team of designers and editors, providing guidance, feedback, and coaching to enhance their skills and output.
• Collaborate with growth and data teams to track performance signals, interpret data, and translate insights into creative direction and iteration.
• 2+ years of experience managing or directing designers, editors, or other creative talent
• 7+ years of experience creating social-first creative in a performance-driven environment, ideally within a growth team, creative studio, or agency
• Experience developing structured testing plans and frameworks that connect creative concepts to personas, hypotheses, and clear measurement criteria
• Experience translating brand strategy into channel-specific creative direction
• Experience reviewing and giving feedback on creative from both internal teams and agency partners
• Deep fluency in Meta, TikTok, and other performance channels, including an understanding of how creative influences delivery, CPM efficiency, and conversion
• A strong grasp of internet culture, meme language, creator trends, and the nuances that make content feel native to each platform
• A proactive, pace-setting, solutions-oriented approach to leading high-volume creative output in a dynamic environment
• A passion for pushing boundaries while maintaining brand integrity and consistency across all touchpoints
• Strong hands-on production and design fundamentals — editing, motion/animation, typography, and composition — with the technical skill to demonstrate technique and give precise, craft-level feedback, not just directional notes
• An analytical mindset with an addiction to real-time performance data and an ability to translate signals into creative direction
• A strong portfolio of work that demonstrates mastery of short-form video, static ads, editing, and native social storytelling. We're looking for someone who can point to work they built themselves, not only work they directed or approved
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work closely with growth, analytics, brand, and product teams
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• If you’re excited about this role but don’t check every box, we encourage you to apply