Tok-Vibes · Now hiring

Creative Director

Own whether our creative is good, and whether it performs, across every brand we run.

Reports to
Oli, CEO
Type
Full-time, ~40 hrs/week
Hours
8am – 4pm EST overlap
Location
Remote · LATAM/US preferred
Comp
$36,000 – $60,000/year
Brands
8 to 10 today, growing

The role

Tok-Vibes is a creative strategy studio for 7 to 9 figure DTC brands. They hand us their ad account and their footage, we hand back the creative that scales it. 60 to 120 unique ads a month per brand, built from research rather than guesswork.

We already have a full team of strategists and they're good. The problem is that every brief still comes back through the founder, so work sits in a queue and ads go live days later than they should. One person is the ceiling on a team that could move much faster.

You'd unblock them in week one, then build what makes them repeatable. The research standard isn't written down and most of how we work lives in one person's head. The systems you build become how this place works.

What you own

Five areas. The percentage is roughly where your week goes.

30%

Brief and edit sign-off

When a strategist sets Brief Review it's yours. You approve it and link the editor in the same move. Final creative say. Nothing reaches a client you haven't stood behind, and the same standard applies on every brand.

20%

Research and strategy direction

Set the research direction on every brand and sprint, into the data and the psychology. You decide which concepts get produced each cycle. Every test has a unique reason behind it and you enforce that. If a strategist can't say why in one sentence, it doesn't ship.

20%

Coaching the strategists

You're their manager and first escalation point. Weekly brainstorm over their brand and their account. Know what each one is individually weak at and close it. And build the Tok-Vibes Method, our internal training, so a new strategist reaches the bar in weeks instead of months.

15%

The ad accounts

You're in every account every week, before the briefs go out. Your read on what's scaling and what's fatiguing tells the strategists what to write next. Spot an underperforming brand early, and go hands-on when one is in trouble.

15%

Reporting and client comms

A report at the end of every sprint for every brand, plus a progress read every two weeks. You talk to clients directly about the creative, in the client channel, not relayed through ops.

Not yours on day one: live client calls, and pushing back on a client when their thinking is off. Those come later, with the founder alongside you first.

How you give feedback

Brief review must never be the reason an ad isn't live. A Creative Director who returns every brief with a page of notes doesn't raise the bar, they become the bottleneck. Four responses, and you pick one deliberately.

A

Ship it

It's good. Approve and move on. You don't need a note to prove you read it.

B

Fix it, and tell them

Change it yourself, send it to edit, then one line saying what you changed. A silent fix is a favour that costs them the lesson.

C

Send it back

The angle is wrong or the research is thin. Revisions Needed, plus a call. Coaching, not correcting.

✕

Kill it

Rarely, the concept shouldn't exist. Killing it before it eats an editor's day is the job.

The test: would explaining this make the next brief better, or just make this one different?

What success looks like

First 30 days

Brief review is yours and nothing waits on the founder. You know how every account is performing, you've given a straight read on the strategist team, and you've named the two or three things holding our hit rate back.

60 to 90 days

The research standard is written down and every strategist runs it. Weak strategy gets caught at your sign-off, not in the ad account. You own the per-brand reports.

6 to 12 months

A new strategist reaches our standard in 30 to 60 days because the Method carries them. No strategist's briefs need your review. And the founder has no visibility into what gets made, and no reason to want any.

Your numbers

What we trackTarget
Winners in the account: new ads that hit the brand's KPI and take real spendEvery brand, every sprint
Time a brief sits at Brief Review before you clear itUnder 24 hours
Batches shipped on time across all brands100%, every week
Client renewal per 12-week cycleHeld

We deliberately don't hold you to a hit-rate percentage, because we ship high volume on purpose and a percentage would push you toward fewer, safer concepts. We'll set the exact number per brand in your first 90 days.

Requirements

Experience

A real plus

Traits

Who this role is NOT for

What you get

How we hire, and how to apply

Four steps and we move fast. Application and Loom, a 30-minute screening call, a paid review test where you review three real briefs from our strategists, then a 45-minute technical interview. If we like you, you'll know inside two weeks.

The form asks for your portfolio, proof of spend, the brief behind one of your ads, and a two to three minute Loom telling us who you are and why this role.

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