Performance Creative Strategist

Performance Creative Strategist
Application Deadline: 12 June 2026
Department: Marketing
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: South Africa
Compensation: R55,000 - R60,000 / month

Description
Some agencies collect clients.

Growjoy grows them.

They're a performance marketing agency helping a select group of clients scale through paid acquisition, creative testing, and smart strategy.

Business is booming, clients are growing, and they've already built a strong remote team (including a couple of South Africans we've placed who are absolutely smashing it)

You'll be analysing winning ads, coming up with new concepts, testing ideas, and helping create the campaigns that drive growth.

No corporate nonsense. No waiting weeks for approvals. Just good ideas, fast execution, and a team that's obsessed with performance.

The Role
What you’ll own:

Creative Research & Ideation

Review top-performing ads and campaigns

Analyse why specific ads are working

Create new hooks, new angles, new avatars, new concepts, and new creative variations

Monitor social media platforms, emerging trends, viral content, and creator content

Analyse winning concepts on organic social media and translate them into paid advertising opportunities

Continuously look for ways to adapt successful creative patterns to client campaigns

Creative Production

The candidate should be comfortable creating creative assets independently using AI and modern creative tools, while also working with internal design and editing resources when higher-production execution is required 

Responsibilities include creating ad creatives, creating static concepts, building creative variations, producing draft video concepts, adapting winning concepts quickly, and using AI tools to accelerate production

The team already has specialist design and editing support available, but the ideal candidate should be comfortable creating a significant amount of creative output independently.

Performance Optimisation

Work closely with the media buyer to understand winning ads, performance drivers, and scaling opportunities

Develop new creative concepts based on campaign performance data

Analyse successful campaigns and identify opportunities for further iteration

Contribute directly to increasing creative testing velocity across accounts

Collaboration

Present and discuss new ideas with founder, South African team, and internal design

Take feedback and iterate quickly

Support ongoing client growth initiatives

The Person
Who we’re looking for:

Experience creating or contributing to paid social campaigns

Experience in performance marketing agencies, ecommerce brands, DTC environments, paid social teams, or creator-led performance marketing businesses

Understanding of direct-response advertising

Ability to explain why an ad performs well

Strong understanding of consumer psychology

Familiarity with AI tools for content creation

Examples of ads that have produced measurable business results

Experience operating in highly competitive advertising environments

Benefits Through Marketing Pros
🏡Remote-First, Flexible Work Model
🌍Global Visibility
🤝Your Own South African Talent Partner
📑Full-time South African Employment Contract
🧾HR, Payroll & Taxes are taken care of!

Please be sure to read our Ts & Cs before submitting your application.