As a Creative Strategist, you'll develop and drive performance-focused creative campaigns, analyze metrics for improvement, and collaborate with teams to enhance ad effectiveness.
Launched in 2014 by former philosophy professor David Barnett, PopSockets is a global digital-lifestyle company that sells empowering, fun, and expressive products that improve people’s digital lives. PopSockets has sold close to 300 million of its iconic phone grips in 75 countries and now has an expanding ecosystem of related products, including phone cases, wallets, mounts, batteries, and chargers.
Our mission is to empower enhanced mobile functionality, self-expression, and authentic human connection. We imagine an Eternal Positivity Machine that sparks joy, creativity, and meaningful relationships. We bring this vision to life by upholding the highest standards in materials, packaging, logistics, and design—while ensuring our supply chain and labor practices remain ethical, responsible, and transparent.
In 2021, PopSockets was honored as one of Fast Company’s World's Most Innovative Companies.
PopSockets is a global leader in phone accessories, known for combining functional design with expressive style. As we continue to scale our e-commerce engine, we’re doubling down on what drives growth: high-performing creative.
We operate on a simple formula: Visitors × Conversion Rate × Average Order Value
This role directly impacts the first two levers—bringing in qualified traffic and converting it through performance-driven creative.
We’re hiring a Creative Strategist to own and scale the creative engine behind our paid media.
This is not a design role. This is the performance side of creative.
You’ll turn data into direction—deciding what gets tested, what gets cut, and what gets scaled. You’ll operate like a scientist in a space typically driven by intuition, building systems that consistently produce winning ads across Meta, TikTok, and emerging platforms.
If you think in hook rate, CTR, and ROAS—not aesthetics, you’ll fit right in.
What You’ll Do
- Ship 80+ new ad concepts per month, structured across a hook × angle × format testing matrix
- Translate performance data (hook rate, hold rate, thumbstop, CTR, ROAS) into clear, executable briefs
- Run weekly winner/loser post-mortems and maintain a living creative insights library
- Own variant strategy: iteration velocity, formats (UGC, static, motion, carousel), and scaling decisions
- Partner closely with Paid Media to align on spend, scaling thresholds, and fatigue signals
- Collaborate with Creator/Affiliate teams to turn top-performing content into Spark Ads and whitelisted campaigns
- Brief editors and creators for fast, high-quality execution (1–2 rounds max)
- Share performance insights with Brand, Organic, and Influencer teams to improve cross-channel output
- Report weekly on creative performance, insights, and testing roadmap
- Use AI tools to accelerate concepting, analysis, and workflow efficiency
- Support forecasting and financial planning through creative performance insights
What Success Looks Like
- A consistent pipeline of winning creatives that scale profitably
- Clear systems for testing, iteration, and creative decision-making
- Strong alignment between creative output and media spend
- Tangible contribution toward doubling the business within 3 years
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years in a creative strategy / performance creative role at a DTC brand, agency, or creator studio
- Proven ownership of ad creative for real accounts (portfolio required—concepts you ideated)
- Deep fluency in Meta Ads Manager and TikTok Ads Manager
- Strong understanding of creative metrics (hook rate, CTR, CVR, ROAS)
- Experience writing high-quality briefs for UGC creators and editors
- Comfortable pulling and analyzing performance data independently
- Familiar with Spark Ads and content whitelisting workflows
- Excellent written communication (briefs, post-mortems, insights)
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams
- Curious and proactive with AI tools (e.g., Claude, Vercel, Supabase)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience at a scaled DTC brand with mature paid media programs
- TikTok Shop creative experience
- Exposure to platforms like AppLovin, YouTube, Snapchat, or Pinterest
- Experience with creative analytics tools (e.g., Motion, Atria)
- Background in media buying before transitioning into creative strategy
- Comfort with rapid experimentation and high creative volume environments
Who You Are
- Obsess over the first 3 seconds of every ad
- Believe volume + signal beats polish
- Have a repeatable framework for generating and testing ideas
- Can ship fast without sacrificing clarity or direction
- Thrive in ambiguity and move without waiting for perfect information
- Use data before writing briefs—not after
You’re not just creative—you’re methodical.
You:
You understand that creative is the primary driver of performance, and you operate accordingly.
Why Join PopSockets?
- Direct impact on a globally recognized brand’s growth trajectory
- Ownership over a high-volume, high-impact creative function
- Work alongside a performance-driven, fast-moving e-commerce team
- Opportunity to build systems that scale—and define how creative drives revenue
PopSockets is dedicated to the practice of equal opportunity employment. We prohibit unlawful discrimination against applicants and employees on the basis of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, military status, genetic information, color, creed, ancestry, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. This prohibition includes unlawful harassment based on any of these protected classes. Unlawful harassment includes verbal or physical conduct which has the purpose or effect of interfering with an individual’s work performance, or creating an intimidating, hostile, offensive, unsafe or otherwise non-welcoming work environment. This policy applies to all employees, including managers, supervisors, co-workers; and non-employees such as customers, clients, vendors, consultants, etc.
PopSockets LLC Boulder, Colorado, USA Office
We're just outside Downtown Boulder (no traffic!) in a gorgeous, newly built and designed office with terrific mountain views!
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