Director of Paid Media Creative

SuperPower

San Francisco, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Benchmarking, Cadence, Channel Management, Coaching, Creative Writing, Integrated Circuits (ICs), Leadership, Media Buying and Planning, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Team Lead/Manager, Video Editing, YouTube
LOCATION
San Francisco, CA
POSTED
1 day ago

Performance Creative Leader

We're looking for a performance creative leader to own paid creative end-to-end at Superpower message, visual, format, and the team that ships it.

About the Role

We ship ~200 ads a week today; the 12-month plan is 10K ads a year. The constraint isn't headcount it's a creative leader who can scale output without losing the bar.

You'll inherit a working team: creative strategist, designer, in-house videographer, producer, and a media buyer who runs channel ops. Your job is to take it from "working" to "category-defining."

This is a player-coach role. Everyone at Superpower is an IC, including leadership you'll set creative direction, write briefs alongside the team, and review every concept before it ships.

Key Responsibilities

  • Message & Positioning: Own the angles, hooks, and narrative arcs across every paid placement; build and maintain the message bank by persona and awareness stage; approve every script, headline, and hook before it ships

  • Visual System: Own how Superpower looks across Meta, Google, YouTube, and emerging placements; maintain visual consistency at 100+ concepts/month; co-own the brand-performance interface with the Brand Director

  • Team Leadership: Manage creative strategy, statics, and video editing teams; partner with Directors of UGC and Influencer; set the operating cadence (brief Monday, ship Friday)

  • Channel Partnership: Sit next to the media buyer weekly know how your creative behaves in the bid environment; champion strong creative bets and cut what won't scale

Qualifications

  • Experience:

    • 7+ years in performance creative, with at least 3 leading the function at a DTC brand spending $1M+/month

    • Personally owned creative on a brand that scaled from $20M to $100M+ ARR references will confirm

    • Hired and grown creative strategists, designers, and editors who outperformed benchmarks

  • Skills:

    • Write briefs, scripts, and headlines at agency-senior level; hands-on across every craft you sign off on

    • Read paid social data fluently know which ad to scale, kill, or v2

    • Experience in a regulated category (Rx, supplements, finance, alcohol) or proven compliance instincts

  • Mindset:

    • Decisive ships 5 versions today over perfecting one all week

    • Treats every ad as if your name is on it

About the Company

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