Senior Ecommerce Creative Strategist Philippines
HireHawk
🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at HireHawk is open to applicants from South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
* Location: Remote / Virtual
* Job Type: Full-Time
At HireHawk, we connect top global talent with high-performing U.S. companies. Our focus is on finding exceptional professionals who bring both expertise and drive to every role. We're passionate about helping candidates grow their careers while supporting our clients with reliable, remote-ready talent that makes an impact from day one.
We are seeking a Senior Ecommerce Creative Strategist to lead the development of high-performing creative strategies that drive revenue and customer acquisition across ecommerce channels. This role combines creative direction, performance marketing insights, and ecommerce expertise to build campaigns that convert across paid media, landing pages, and product experiences.
The ideal candidate understands direct response creative, consumer psychology, and ecommerce growth levers, and can translate performance data into scalable creative strategies.
Responsibilities:
* Develop and execute data-driven creative strategies for ecommerce campaigns across paid social, display, and video platforms.
* Lead the ideation and development of high-converting ad creatives including UGC, static ads, video scripts, and landing page concepts.
* Translate performance insights into scalable creative frameworks and testing roadmaps.
* Partner with growth marketing, media buying, and analytics teams to align creative with performance objectives.
* Analyze campaign performance to identify creative trends, winning angles, and new testing opportunities.
* Optimize messaging, hooks, and visual storytelling based on audience insights.
* Provide clear creative briefs and direction to designers, copywriters, video editors, and content creators.
* Review creative outputs and ensure they meet brand standards and conversion goals.
* Oversee the creative testing pipeline, ensuring continuous iteration.
* Support the development of high-converting landing pages and product pages.
* Collaborate with CRO teams on offer positioning, product storytelling, and funnel optimization.
* Align creative messaging with customer journey stages.
* Conduct competitive research, audience research, and trend analysis to inform creative direction.
* Identify emerging creative formats and platforms relevant to ecommerce growth.
* 2+ years of experience in creative strategy, performance marketing, or ecommerce growth
* Proven success developing high-performing paid media creatives
* Deep understanding of direct response marketing and ecommerce funnels
* Experience working with Meta, TikTok, YouTube, or other paid social platforms
* Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret performance data
* Excellent communication and leadership skills
* Experience in DTC ecommerce brands or agencies
* Familiarity with CRO and landing page optimization
* Experience managing creative teams or freelance creators
* Knowledge of UGC production and influencer content strategies
* Access to a $200K+ perk marketplace with discounts on 150+ global services.
* Option to withdraw up to 50% of approved earnings before payday.
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.
About HireHawk
HireHawk is a company in the strategist industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.