Performance Creative Lead
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Job Summary
At Neighbor were building the largest hyperlocal storage and parking marketplace in the world. Weve raised over $75 million from top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz and the CEOs of DoorDash StockX and Uber. Our marketplace operates in all 50 states and were just getting started!
About the Role
Neighbor is looking for a talented high-agency person to own and accelerate our paid creative engine. The mission is to make our ad creatives the best-performing asset in our growth stack.
Paid social lives or dies on ad creative. Youll own the ad creatives end to end: from the first customer insight through concept brief and production to delivery and the performance readout that starts the next cycle.
This is a true ownership role reporting into our Creative Director. Youll sit next to our paid social media buyer and direct the work of our designers and video editors. The role is equal parts creative strategy (personas hooks messaging frameworks testing roadmaps) and production ops (briefs timelines feedback loops shipped assets) with full accountability for performance.
- Mine customer research reviews CX feedback and ad performance data for the insights that become winning concepts.
- Build persona-based messaging for both sides of our marketplace (hosts and renters) and write direct-response copy yourself: hooks video scripts captions and headlines.
- Create briefs rooted in a hypothesis and a success metric and direct designers editors and UGC creators from kickoff through delivery.
- Own the production pipeline end to end: prioritization timelines handoffs QA and enough weekly creative volume to feed the account without starving quality.
- Build and run a UGC pipeline: source creators conduct customer interviews and extract the language stories and moments that become winning creative.
- Run the creative testing roadmap (every ad in-market is a hypothesis) and publish learning recaps the whole team acts on.
- Partner daily with the media buyer on whats winning whats fatiguing and what launches next.
- Own performance metrics including hook rate hold rate CTR and the ROAS of new creative
- Create a library of learnings: what hooks angles and formats work for each persona - that compounds and gets better over time
- Use AI tools across the workflow: research scripting static and video generation and asset organization.
- 5 years of experience in performance creative creative strategy or growth marketing at a DTC brand marketplace or agency ideally with Meta as a primary channel.
- Proof of breakthrough work. You can walk us through specific campaigns or accounts youve grown with the numbers creative and story to back it up.
- Strong direct-response copywriting; fluent in paid social and creative analytics.
- Track record of running a creative production pipeline (briefs creators editors deadlines) that ships a high volume of deliverables on time.
- Comfortable being measured on output performance not effort.
- Ability to prioritize ruthlessly and stay organized across multiple concepts at different stages of production.
- Hands-on editing or design skills (CapCut Premiere Figma or similar).
- UGC creator sourcing and management experience.
- AI-native production workflows and a grounding in consumer psychology or direct-response classics.
- Stock options
- Medical dental and vision insurance
- Generous PTO
- 11 paid company holidays
- 401(k) plan
- Infant care leave
- On-site gym/showers open 24/7
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We want to see your actual work especially the stuff that broke through and drove real results.
Pick the pieces youre proudest of and come ready to talk through both sides: what made them land creatively and what they returned in performance.
About Company
Storage units and parking at half the cost of traditional storage providers. A bold, new take on storage.