Associate Creative Director, Performance Marketing
Job Summary
The Associate Creative Director of Performance Marketing at Pinterest leads a multidisciplinary team to develop and optimize creative campaigns across social channels, focusing on performance and brand engagement. The role involves managing end-to-end creative development, leveraging data and insights to enhance strategy, and staying ahead of emerging trends. Candidates should have extensive experience in design, art direction, and social media advertising, with proficiency in relevant tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite. The position emphasizes leadership, strategic thinking, and collaboration within a flexible, inclusive work environment.
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About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.
As Associate Creative Director, Performance Marketing, you’ll lead the creative engine that grows Pinterest, globally. You’ll guide and partner with a multi‑disciplinary team—designers, writers, producers, etc.—to concept, test, and scale culturally relevant work across a variety of social channels. From motion to UGC to thumb‑stopping static, you’ll turn insights into cohesive ideas that drive MAU and brand love. You’ll co‑own briefs, push the craft, read the data, and iterate fast. And you’ll champion responsible, human‑centered AI to unlock new ways we create world‑class work that works.
What you’ll do:
- Lead a talented design + writing + motion team across all phases of projects from brief through delivery for UCAN and global regions.
- Develop performance/ROI-driven creative: Design and optimize ads for paid social (Meta/IG, TikTok, Snap, X, YouTube), DSPs, and in-app placements.
- Lead end-to-end creative development across internal teams and external vendors—partnering with Producers on resourcing and timelines and with Growth Marketing/cross‑functional partners to deliver brand‑forward, big‑idea work that’s measurable, testable, and drives performance.Leverage data and creative insights to optimize strategy, messaging, and overall creative process.
- Research and forecast new and emerging trends for evergreen campaigns.
- Craft compelling stories, using key user insights to inform concepts and storytelling.
- Represent the thinking behind your team’s work to key stakeholders, creative directors and team members.
- Ensure that projects are always on-brand and on-track, despite tight deadlines.
- Cultivate a positive, healthy, and high performing team culture.
What we’re looking for:
- 8+ years of experience in design with an emphasis in performance marketing creative preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Marketing, Design or equivalent experience.
- An expert in art direction and writing craft, composition, video creation, motion design and UGC creative.
- An inspirational leader who can motivate the team, but delights in doing the work. An accomplished manager with a player/coach mentality.
- Art meets science: Someone with strong visual communication skills who can think strategically about how to educate and drive interest with a heavy reliance on data.
- An expert collaborator: A creative with deep experience working with writing partners to develop concepts, through to execution.
- A long track record of working quickly and efficiently, and keeping pace in a lightning-fast environment.
- Strong working knowledge in creative best practices across social channels that drives acquisition.
- Full proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI tools like Runway, Sora, Google Veo, Adobe Firefly.
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every six months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
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