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    Creative Strategist (TikTok Shop)

    Maneuver Marketing
    Europe•Singapore•Belgium•Thailand•France•Philippines•Ireland•Georgia•Spain•Portugal
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    TikTok ShopDTCCreative StrategyMarketingSenior

    Requirements

    • •5+ years in DTC creative strategy, performance creative, or growth-focused content development, ideally with meaningful experience on TikTok Shop.
    • •Strong portfolio showcasing short-form content, direct response creative thinking, and an understanding of what makes content perform in-feed.
    • •Deep familiarity with TikTok as a platform, including content trends, creator dynamics, paid creative best practices, and shopping behavior.
    • •Experience developing concepts across both organic and paid social, with strong instincts for platform-native storytelling.
    • •Strong grasp of creative testing methodologies, including how to evaluate and iterate on hooks, formats, messaging, and visual delivery.
    • •Ability to bridge brand, content, and performance thinking — creating work that is engaging, culturally relevant, and conversion-oriented.
    • •A passion for psychology, storytelling, video, design, and consumer behavior that translates into compelling customer-centric creatives.
    • •Proactive engagement with emerging trends, creators, platform changes, and best practices across TikTok and the wider DTC creative ecosystem.

    What You'll Do

    • •Own the creative strategy for TikTok as a growth channel, identifying how to unlock customer acquisition and conversion through platform-native content.
    • •Develop concepts across organic TikTok, paid TikTok ads, and TikTok Shop to support both awareness and revenue generation.
    • •Translate channel insights into repeatable creative frameworks that can be scaled across products and campaigns.
    • •Dive into TikTok trends, competitor activity, creator formats, comment sections, customer behavior, and platform-native storytelling patterns.
    • •Use TikTok feeds, creator ecosystems, ad libraries, social listening, and other research tools to identify emerging opportunities.
    • •Distil findings into actionable creative angles, hooks, scripts, and briefs that align with our target demographic and business goals.
    • •Build and continuously refine a testing pipeline for TikTok creative, including hooks, formats, concepts, offers, creator styles, and messaging angles.
    • •Partner with internal teams and creators to launch, evaluate, and iterate on new concepts quickly.
    • •Identify winning patterns and scale them through a structured testing approach that balances performance optimization with creative freshness.
    • •Develop TikTok creatives tailored to different stages of the funnel, from awareness and discovery to conversion and purchase intent.
    • •Craft content that matches user mindset across different entry points such as educational or entertaining content for organic reach, direct response ads for paid acquisition, and conversion-focused assets for TikTok Shop.
    • •Ensure content is both platform-native and strategically aligned to broader brand and product goals.
    • •Develop ad concepts and organic content built for TikTok’s unique content ecosystem, with strong emphasis on attention, retention, relatability, and action.
    • •Shape concepts that feel authentic to the platform while still delivering clear performance outcomes.
    • •Identify trends, creator behaviors, editing styles, and storytelling devices that can be adapted into high-performing branded content.
    • •Partner with relevant stakeholders to develop creatives that improve TikTok Shop performance, including product storytelling, offer communication, social proof, and conversion-focused content.
    • •Help shape content that shortens the path from discovery to purchase within the TikTok ecosystem.
    • •Test and refine creative approaches that improve product page engagement, click-through, and sell-through.
    • •Identify content and funnel bottlenecks specific to TikTok traffic and user behavior.
    • •Improve performance through testing of key creative levers such as hooks, pacing, CTAs, product demonstration, proof elements, creator delivery, and offer framing.
    • •Apply insights rapidly to improve click-through rates, engagement quality, and downstream conversion.