Lead Creative Strategist

WHO ARE WE?

Launch Potato is a profitable digital media company reaching over 30M+ monthly visitors through brands like FinanceBuzz, All About Cookies, and OnlyInYourState. Our mission is to connect consumers with leading brands through data-driven content and technology.

WHY JOIN US?

Accelerate your career by owning outcomes, moving fast, and driving impact with a global team of high-performers. Base Salary: $100,000 to $125,000 per year, paid semi-monthly.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years experience with direct response creative strategy ownership and performance media buying
• You know what a strong hook looks like, why persona targeting matters, and what makes someone stop scrolling
• Demonstrated experience writing production-ready briefs that creative teams execute without revision rounds
• Performance data fluency: you can read results, identify what's driving them, and translate findings into creative direction
• Experience managing UGC creators from sourcing through delivery
• Able to work across multiple verticals and formats simultaneously without losing strategic focus
• Strong copywriting ability (scripts, hooks, headlines, ad copy) meaningfully accelerates the briefing process and is a differentiator for this role
• Experience leveraging AI tools like Claude or AI Asset Production tools to drive creative strategy farther

What You'll Own

• Brief Writing and Concept Development
• Maintain a rolling content backlog with 4+ weeks of net-new concepts brief-ready at all times
• Hit monthly throughput targets for net-new concepts across LP's full vertical portfolio
• Own the net-new vs. iteration balance: enough new concepts to maximize testing cadence, enough iteration direction to fully exploit proven winners
• Proactively identify untested formats and underserved verticals and bring them into the testing queue
• Performance Intelligence and Playbook
• Analyze creative performance data with the paid media team to identify winners, flag fatigue, and determine what to test next
• Translate performance findings into new briefs and updated creative direction, not just observations
• Maintain LP's creative playbook: document winning formulas by persona, vertical, and format so every team starts from accumulated learning, not from zero
• Lead competitive creative research on a regular cadence: study what formats, hooks, and approaches are winning in LP's verticals and flag emerging opportunities before they're mainstream
• Drive cross-vertical learning: when something wins in one vertical, identify where it can be adapted and brief it for others
• UGC Creator and Talent Management
• Own LP's UGC creator pipeline end-to-end: sourcing, vetting, contracting, briefing, and performance review
• Maintain the AirTable UGC creator dashboard as the single source of truth: creator profiles, availability, past performance, brief status, and video review status
• Write creator briefs specific enough to reduce revision cycles and increase the odds of a usable first delivery
• Build and manage creator relationships across LP's full vertical portfolio, not just the highest-volume categories

Traits of Success

• Precise communicator: nothing gets lost between strategy and execution
• Translates data into action, not just observation
• Systems thinker who builds playbooks and infrastructure that compound over time
• Manages multiple verticals and formats simultaneously without losing strategic focus
• Creative intuition grounded in performance logic, not personal taste

Who Won't Succeed Here

• Relies on gut over data to generate creative direction
• Writes briefs that require rounds of revision before production can move
• Can't independently manage creator relationships from sourcing through delivery
• Thinks in one brand or format rather than the full portfolio
• Treats performance analysis as a reporting exercise rather than a creative input

Total Compensation

Your compensation package includes a base salary, profit-sharing bonus, and competitive benefits. Launch Potato is a performance-driven company, which means future increases will be based on company and personal performance, not annual cost of living adjustments.

Want to Accelerate Your Career?

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