Performance creative for DTC brands and online businesses.

Adcrate

Job Title: Creator Team LeadLocation: Fully Remote (UK/EU)Commitment: Full time (operating in UK/EU hours)Reports to: Leadership TeamExperience Level: Graduate / Early CareerSalary Range: Salary is dependent on experienceCompany: Adcrate Ltd
About Adcrate:Adcrate is a fast-growing, AI-driven performance marketing agency helping eCommerce and digital product brands scale through creative that converts and paid media that performs. We combine data, testing, and bold ideas to drive real growth for our clients.We’re a fully remote team of strategists, video editors, and performance experts spread across the globe - agile, ambitious, and always experimenting. We move fast, stay curious, and genuinely care about doing great work.
The Role:As our Creator Team Lead, you’ll take ownership of the day to day running and continued development of our Creator function.
You’ll lead and support our Creator team, keeping visibility across sourcing, workloads, creator projects and upcoming requirements to make sure everything stays organised and moving. You’ll work closely with our Creative Strategy team to understand what they need from creators, help maintain a high standard of sourcing and step in when there are blockers or more complex briefs to solve.This is a hands-on leadership role. While your main focus will be leading the function and the people within it, you’ll still get involved in creator sourcing for selected priority brands, creator relationships and coordinating in-person shoots when needed.
We’re looking for someone who loves building great processes, developing people and bringing organisation to a fast-moving environment, while still having a really strong understanding of creators, UGC and performance-led content.
What you’ll be doing:Leading the Creator team, including regular 1:1s, feedback, development and day-to-day supportKeeping visibility across team workload and capacity, making sure work is distributed effectively and the team has the support they needOverseeing creator sourcing and active creator projects across our brands, ensuring deadlines, quality and expectations are being metSupporting the team with more complex briefs, difficult to source requirements, creator issues and other escalationsWorking closely with Creative Strategists to understand upcoming creator requirements and make sure sourcing is aligned with what each brand needsMaintaining a high standard of creator sourcing across the team and helping develop what “great” looks like as the function growsOwning and continuously improving our creator processes, workflows and ways of workingKeeping oversight of our Creator Pool and internal creator tracking, ensuring information is organised, accurate and usefulBuilding a strong network of reliable, high-quality creators and identifying opportunities to continue working with top performersSpotting recurring issues, gaps or bottlenecks across the creator journey and putting solutions in placeKeeping leadership and relevant teams updated on capacity, sourcing progress, delays and any risks or blockersRemaining hands-on with creator sourcing and coordination for selected priority brands where neededCoordinating in-person creator shoots, including creator selection, availability, communication and logisticsSupporting creator payment processes and making sure Finance has the information needed to keep payments movingHelping onboard and train new Creator team members as the function continues to grow
What we're looking for:You have 1+ years of experience within creator sourcing, influencer marketing, UGC, creator partnerships or a similar spaceYou have previous experience leading, managing or mentoring a teamYou understand the full creator journey, from sourcing and outreach through to briefs, footage, feedback and deliveryYou have a strong eye for creator quality and understand how to match the right creator and content style to different brandsYou’re confident managing multiple priorities and keeping visibility across a busy pipeline of creator projectsYou’re comfortable giving feedback, having difficult conversations and supporting people in their developmentYou’re highly organised and naturally look for ways to make processes clearer, smoother and more efficientYou’re proactive when something isn’t working — you don’t wait for problems to become bigger before addressing themYou’re confident working cross-functionally and communicating with different teamsYou understand UGC and performance-led creative, and ideally have experience within eCommerce/DTC brandsYou’re comfortable working independently and taking real ownership within a fast-moving remote environment
Team Interaction💬 Slack: is where everything happens. Whether it's client wins, creative feedback, questions, memes, gifs, or sharing what you're up to at the weekend, it's the heart of our remote team.📞 Weekly Calls & Creative Training: We hold weekly team check-ins, creative reviews and training sessions to keep everyone connected and continuously learning. It's a chance to bounce ideas around, challenge thinking and sharpen your creative skills. Calls are typically held between 2pm-6pm GMT on Mondays and Wednesdays.✈️ Retreats & Team Socials: We're a remote-first business, but we love getting together in person too. Every year we bring the team together to celebrate wins, reflect on progress and have some fun. So far, we've taken the team to Thailand, with Summer and Winter Socials, team meet-ups and retreats continuing to be a big part of our culture.📈 Growth & Development: We're big believers that growth doesn't stop once you're hired. Whether it's learning from the team around you, joining creative training sessions, taking on new challenges or developing your leadership skills, we'll support you in growing both personally and professionally.🎉 Culture: Building a strong remote culture is incredibly important to us. From Quarterly Games Days and team lunches to wellness sessions, challenges and virtual events, we're always looking for new ways to bring the team together and make Adcrate a fun place to work.