Growth Marketing Creative Strategist

Overview

Linkby is a global VC-funded adtech business connecting both established and emerging D2C ecommerce brands with the world’s largest publishers – including Daily Mail, News Corp, Seven West Media, Nine Digital, Are Media and hundreds more globally – helping them to work together more profitably, and effectively, than ever before through its suite of performance PR-driven products and services.

We’re looking for a Growth Marketing Creative Strategist who knows how to create ads that stop people scrolling in their tracks. From punchy headlines to thumb-stopping visuals, you’ll concept and craft ad creative that performs - helping turn publisher content into high-converting campaigns. This role requires a journalist’s instinct for what captures attention who thrives in a commercial, results-driven environment.
You will combine sharp editorial judgment with a strong understanding of audience behavior, crafting and determining performance-first copy and image combinations that feels native, engaging, and impossible to scroll past. You’re not afraid to kick off a conversation with one of our hundreds of global publishers to troubleshoot when existing image and headline combinations aren’t measuring up. 

You likely have a journalism or editorial background (or think like someone who does). You know a good hook when you see one. You have opinions on headlines. You understand that the difference between “ok” or a conversion can usually be a tweak in creative.
You can see the bigger picture too: you’ll be managing smart audience monetisation which doesn’t just drive performance, it helps publishers generate the revenue that funds quality journalism, supports editorial teams, and keeps great reporting alive.

Key Responsibilities

Editorial-Led Creative Development

• Write copy that doesn’t feel like advertising while also leveraging publisher copy and editorial instincts to build high-performing creative; refining and adapting where needed.
  

• Turn brand messages into stories people might actually choose to engage with, using strong angles, cultural awareness, and a clear point of view.
  

• Bring a newsroom mindset to everything: What’s the hook? Why now? Why should anyone care?
  

• Develop multiple concepts quickly, while continuously testing and iterating publisher creative templates to identify the formats that perform best.

Performance-Driven Copy & Optimization

• Once you’ve become an ad production powerhouse for Linkby and its publishing partners, you’ll either already know - or quickly learn - the tools needed to take your work live. Think publishing, optimising and reporting on campaigns across self-serve platforms like Facebook Ads.
  

• Determine copy that can be leveraged across channels from paid social, native, video, and more - with equal parts taste and intent.
  

• Work closely with performance teams to understand what’s landing, what’s flopping, and why.
  

• Iterate constantly. Kill your darlings (and have the right instinct for which ideas might be dead in the water). Write better ones.
  

• Balance creative instinct with data - knowing when to trust each.

Creative Strategy & Concepting

• Partner with publishers, designers, and marketers to build ideas that work as a whole and ultimately drive conversions.
  

• Shape campaign narratives, not just individual assets.
  

• Constantly push for smarter, fresher, less “seen-it-before” creative.

Establish & Maintain Creative Best Practices

• Help define what “good” looks like and constantly raise the bar.
  

• Build and contribute to a library of creative that actually worked (not just what looked nice in a deck).
  

• Have a point of view. Change it when the data proves you wrong.
  

• Establish a TOV that fits where it lives - whether that’s a premium publisher, TikTok, or somewhere in between.
  

• Develop editorial-style integrations that feel seamless, not forced.
  

• Stay plugged into culture, trends, and shifts in how people consume content (and what they ignore).
  

What You Bring

• 3–5+ years of experience in copywriting, journalism, editorial, or anything that proves you can write something people don’t skip.
  

• An instinct for what makes someone stop scrolling and the ability to do it more than once.
  

• Comfort using performance data to make your work better, not blander.
  

• Curiosity, taste, and a low tolerance for boring.
  

• Ability to move fast, think in ideas (not just deliverables), and adapt your voice without losing it.
  

• A clever wit and great sense of humor.
  

• Experience with paid media is a major bonus. Knowing how to write is non-negotiable.