Performance Creative Strategist and AI Producer

Headquarters: United States URL: https://icarusdigitalmarketing.com/ Performance Creative Strategist and AI Producer Remote | Full time | Paid 30-day working trial Icarus Digital Marketing builds and scales direct-response ecommerce brands, including brands in difficult and restricted categories. We are hiring a hands-on performance creative operator to work directly with the owners on our internal portfolio of brands. This is not a conventional graphic-design role. We need someone who understands why Meta ads convert and can personally turn that understanding into high-quality static and video creative using current AI production tools. You may come from dropshipping, affiliate marketing, DTC, a performance agency, or a creative media-buying background. We care more about commercial judgment, production ability, speed, and proof of work than polished credentials. The work You will use and help improve our internal Creative Cockpit. It takes a brand from research and foundational strategy through campaign creation, production, review, and delivery. For each brand, the system holds brand assets and voice, customer language and audience psychology, pains and desires, necessary beliefs, competitor intelligence, awareness levels, angles, hooks, offer context, prior creative, winners, and performance signals. Your job is to turn that intelligence into creative that can sell. • Read campaign briefs, audience research, voice-of-customer material, and brand strategy documents. • Decide what each batch should test and why. • Source and analyse strong visual and structural references. • Develop angles, hooks, scripts, concepts, storyboards, and landing-page direction. • Personally produce static ads and short-form video ads. • Use AI image, video, voice, and editing tools at a high level. • Create meaningful variants without producing repetitive AI slop. • Review work for persuasion, visual quality, brand fit, platform fit, and compliance. • Refine weak generations rather than accepting the first output. • Package approved assets for launch and document what each concept tests. • Read results and use the learning to plan the next batch. What you must be good at • Direct-response advertising and Meta creative strategy • Audience psychology and voice-of-customer interpretation • Awareness levels, hooks, angles, mechanisms, objections, offers, and message-market fit • Understanding when an ad should lead to a PDP, advertorial, listicle, quiz, or sales page • Static ad, UGC, and short-form video production • Visual-reference analysis and controlled recreation • Current AI image and video workflows using tools such as Seedance, Google Flow/Omni, Nano Banana/Gemini, GPT Image, Higgsfield, Kling, Sora, Veo, or comparable tools • Editing, compositing, pacing, captions, sound, and final polish • Fast, organised batch production • Reading creative performance and choosing the next test You are probably not right for this role if • Your portfolio is mostly branding, organic social content, or attractive design without performance context. • You call every asset “scroll-stopping” but cannot explain the audience belief or conversion mechanism. • You are a strategist who depends on other people to make the work. • You are a tool operator who needs someone else to provide every hook, angle, script, and decision. • You use one prompt, accept the first output, and call it AI production. • You cannot show exactly what you personally contributed to portfolio examples. • You dislike volume, iteration, testing, or direct feedback. What success looks like Within 30 days, you can understand our strategy packs and operating system, take a structured brief from research to finished assets with limited supervision, produce a