Junior Performance Creative Alchemist (Creative Strategist in Training)

Ideation

• Turn insight into ideas worth testing.
• Set up ideation boards ahead of ideation week, loaded with insight and light ideation, so brainstorming starts with fuel instead of a blank canvas.
• Bring ideas grounded in data and strategy, not personal taste. Be obsessed with performance, not with what looks good.
• Support script development across ideation and briefing.
• Write hypotheses that turn an idea into a test with a reason behind it, so wins can be repeated on purpose and losses teach you something.

Briefing

• Help the ideas survive contact with the edit.
• Support PCAs writing clear, structured briefs that editors, designers, and creators can open and execute without coming back with questions.
• Learn what makes a paid social script actually convert: strategically built, on-brand, designed to move someone.
• Learn to give feedback that sharpens creative rather than just marking it.
• Underneath all of it, you keep the machine tidy. Ad-hoc tasks delivered on time without chasing. The Notion database of assets and footage links kept current for the team. Claude used to clear the admin and sharpen the thinking, so your headspace goes where it counts. Proactive, clear comms with the Sprints team, so nobody's ever waiting on you to keep moving.

Who You Are

• Obsessed with social ads. How they're made, what performs, why.
• Maybe you've worked in content, creative strategy, or performance marketing. Maybe you've just been nerding out on it in your own time. Both count.
• You love turning data into story, and you're honest when the data doesn't say what you hoped it would.
• You thrive in a fast, idea-driven environment.
• You want to grow fast, not climb slowly.

Who's This For

We're looking for the DNA of a great performance creative strategist, early in the journey.

• You get why ads work. Not whether something looks good, but what made someone stop and act. You find that genuinely fascinating.
• You're comfortable with data and creative with it. You can sit in an ad account and read it, and you care more about what the numbers mean than the numbers themselves.
• You're organised. You're the one who knows where everything is.
• You're proactive. You don't wait to be told. You spot what's needed and bring it.
• You're collaborative. Sprints work because everyone feeds everyone: your insight fuels the PCA's strategy, your setups fuel the room. You're good with people and you like building something together.
• You're hungry. This role rewards someone who wants to rise.
• No set number of years required. We care about the instinct and the hunger far more than the CV.

Why You'll Grow Fast Here

Most junior roles teach slowly, because the loop never closes. You analyse ads you didn't make, pitch ideas that vanish, and rarely find out if you were right. The lesson doesn't land.

You're on a small team with no layers between you and people who've done this for years, so you learn by watching them decide, then deciding yourself, then seeing how it went. Every week has something in it you didn't know the week before. Which is why every single person here grows at an exponential rate.

Potential Pathway

This role is built to lead somewhere. The main route is clear:

• The PCA path. If you fall for the strategy and the building, the ideation, the briefs, turning insight into ads that win, you grow toward becoming a PCA and owning the client and the build yourself. Most juniors who commit are ready to start running their own workstreams well before they're running their own accounts.

We're straight about how you get there. Progression is earned, not timed. Most people find their feet around the 12-month mark, but moving up depends on two things: you being ready, and the business needing the seat. We'd rather say that plainly than sell you a ladder that isn't there.

What we will commit to: PCA is a real, recurring seat on the Standard side, not a someday-maybe. And we hire juniors to grow them, not to park them.

What Good Looks Like in the First Months

• Your insights are the kind the team builds its strategy on, not a report nobody reads.
• You know the accounts cold, the winning ads, the assets worth repurposing, the moments worth reusing, and you're already the person the PCA comes to when they need a specific one.
• Your ideation setups make the sessions fly.
• You've started supporting on briefs and builds, learning the craft hands-on.
• You're the one who makes the PCAs better at their jobs.

Tools You'll Learn

• Motion, for ad performance analysis. This becomes your home.
• Foreplay, for creative referencing and inspiration.
• Miro, for ideation and Sprint mapping.
• Bright/Tracker and Claude, our AI stack for insight, hypothesis-building, and clearing the busywork. We direct the AI. It doesn't direct us.
• Slack, Notion, and Google Workspace, for collaboration and calm chaos.

What We’re Offering

• £26–28k DOE
• Hybrid working: One day a week in our Whitechapel office (or once a fortnight if you’re further afield). The rest from a location that works best for you!
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private healthcare through Vitality post probation
• £400 annual growth fund for learning and development
• A front-row seat to learn performance creative inside a studio that’s redefining how creativity and data work together.

TL;DR

You'll find the insight in the numbers, spark the idea in the brainstorm, and turn creative chaos into content that performs. You'll learn to make ads that don't just look great. They work.

If that sounds like your kind of alchemy, we'd love to meet you.