Paid Social Creative Strategy Lead in London

We are on the lookout for a Paid Social Creative Strategist to join our Marketing Growth Team. As a direct-to-consumer e‐commerce business, driving growth through our digital marketing endeavours is crucial. Our goal is to establish ourselves as the leading fresh dog food company in Europe and maintain a strong growth trajectory over the next five years.

The Paid Social Creative Strategist will own the strategy, delivery and performance of paid social creative across Meta and TikTok. Sitting within the UK Marketing team, this role is pivotal for scaling creative output while simultaneously improving creative performance and quality. The role acts as the central point of ownership between creative, media and insight, managing multiple work streams (including in‐house, agency and UGC resource), enabling creative sharing across international markets, and ensuring paid social creative drives efficient customer acquisition.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage systems, frameworks and processes that increase creative output without sacrificing quality or performance.
• Ensure concepts, hooks and formats are repeatable, scalable and insight‐led.
• Raise the overall creative bar through strong briefing, feedback and iteration.
• Act as the creative expert for Meta and TikTok, with strong understanding of platform best practices and algorithm needs.
• Ensure creative is optimised for placements, audiences and delivery signals.
• Continuously evolve creative approaches in line with platform and format changes.
• Develop clear creative strategies, concepts and testing hypotheses grounded in performance insight.
• Write strong, actionable briefs defining hooks, angles, messaging and formats.
• Support the development of compelling early‐frame hooks.
• Provide clear, performance‐focused feedback across all creative work streams.
• Analyse creative performance across key metrics (CTR, CVR, CPA).
• Distil performance data into clear, actionable insights.
• Feed learnings directly into future briefs, test plans and creative iterations.
• Work closely with Paid Media teams to scale winning creative effectively.
• Manage multiple creative work streams, ensuring alignment on concepts, priorities and timelines.
• Coordinate delivery across internal teams, external agencies and creators.
• Ensure creative is delivered on time, to brief and against performance goals.
• Manage a creative agency as a dedicated paid social creative work stream.
• Line‐manage a direct report focused on generating UGC content via creators.
• Set clear priorities, standards and development goals across teams.
• Ensure paid social creative assets, frameworks and learnings are shared effectively with international markets.
• Support local adaptation while maintaining performance intent and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Meta and TikTok creative best practices and algorithm requirements.
• Strong creative strategy and briefing capability.
• Proven ability to scale creative content while improving performance outcomes.
• Strong project, stakeholder and agency management skills.
• Experience line‐managing creative or content‐focused roles.
• Highly analytical, with the ability to turn performance insight into action.

Interview Process

• Application review
• Initial call (45 minutes) with our Talent Partner
• Take‐home task (sent via email)
• Technical interview (1 hour) – remote presentation of the task
• In‐person values interview (45 minutes) – meeting two squad members and scenario/competency questions

Logistics

We work three days per week from our West London office (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) and two days from home. This is non‐negotiable; please only apply if you’re within a reasonable commute of London. We reserve the right to close the position if we receive a large volume of applications. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. This role is not open to recruitment agency support.

About Us

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food – cooked like you would at home and delivered in perfect portions. As a B‐Corp certified company, you can be sure you’re joining a sustainable company that cares about our people, product and our impact on the environment. Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives while leaving humans smiling after every interaction.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service
• 5 paid 'paws' days per year for learning and/or wellbeing
• £500 personal learning & development budget
• Butternut Box employee discount
• Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks' maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave)
• Best office ever
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with NEST
• Private medical insurance with AXA
• Private dental insurance with Bupa
• Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
• Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut
• Discounted gym access through MyGym
• Discounts
• Lots of office dogs (Chief, Basil, Jammy, Peggy, Pip, Winnie and many more...)

Legal

Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance. We’re ready to support candidates from under‐represented groups and are dedicated to building an inclusive, supportive place for the best work of your career.