Apex Growth is hiring : Performance Marketer, Creative in St. Louis

About Us | ApexGrowth.co ( Apex Growth ) is a growth marketing agency.

We provide strategic consulting for companies poised for hyper-growth. We specialize in paid media, conversion rate optimization, management consulting, and custom marketing technology implementation.

Scalable growth requires an investment in engineering and data resources. In particular, we help businesses launch major programs with minimal headcount. Companies turn to us, their outsourced growth marketing team, to solve their most pressing issues related to growth.

Our team’s unmatched expertise in growth marketing, engineering, and product is our way of ensuring that our solutions outpace our clients’ internal abilities and provide exceptional value.

Employment Type :

Remote, Full-Time (U.S.-Based)

Compensation

Base Salary : $90,000–$105,000

Incentives : 10% Annual Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits Package (Health, Dental, Vision, 401(k) Match, and More)

Apex Growth is hiring a junior Performance Marketer, Creative to translate performance insights into platform-native, high-converting ad concepts across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and beyond. This role exists to drive structured creative ideation, testing velocity, and storytelling precision at the intersection of growth marketing and creative strategy.

You’ll operate at the core of our creative engine—bridging media performance and narrative craft. This role reports to the SVP of Growth & Creative and plays a pivotal part in scaling creative systems, refreshing ad pipelines, and accelerating learning loops across paid media accounts.

What You Will Own

Creative Briefs & Campaign Concepting

Write testable creative briefs aligned to client goals, audiences, and channel best practices

Develop hook frameworks, messaging hierarchies, and visual / storytelling direction

Translate performance data and product insights into scalable campaign concepts

Post-Launch Creative Analysis

Monitor creative performance metrics (CTR, thumbstop rate, CAC, etc.) across platforms

Identify top-performing themes, fatigue signals, and cross-client learnings

Partner with media and analytics teams to package insights into debrief decks and scorecards

Testing Cadence & Infrastructure

Manage creative workflows for briefs, testing rounds, and asset libraries

Ensure creative refresh velocity is maintained across pods and client verticals

Escalate blockers and enforce hygiene around testing rhythm and deliverable status

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Work closely with designers, editors, and content creators to execute on briefed concepts

Coordinate with media leads and project managers to ensure timeline alignment

Serve as a collaborative hub across Growth, Creative, and Analytics

Process Building & Creative Ops Support

Evolve briefing templates, creative scorecards, and async feedback systems

Contribute to internal creative libraries and training resources

Help build systems that support speed, experimentation, and repeatable success

Who This Role Is Not For.

This likely isn’t a fit if :

You prefer creative environments without structure or feedback loops

You rely on visual or copy execution to drive strategy instead of upstream insight and framing

You struggle to manage async workflows or own timelines

You’ve never worked in a performance marketing, media, or data-informed creative setting

Who You’ll Work With

Maggie Valiunas (SVP, Growth & Creative Strategy) : Direct manager and strategic partner

Kathy (Creative Strategy Lead) : Day-to-day creative collaborator

David Mausolf (Co-Founder) : Strategic alignment and business context

Cross-functional Pods : Paid Social, Search, Analytics, Design, and Project Management

Career Path Opportunities

Mid-Level Creative Strategist – Lead testing and messaging across core client verticals

Creative Strategy Lead – Own strategy, briefs, and performance feedback loops at scale

Channel Specialist (Meta, TikTok, YouTube, etc.) – Focus on platform-specific creative optimization

What Apex Growth offers :

A great flexible remote work environment—equal parts laid-back startup and motivated meritocracy

Daily opportunities to grow your technical skills and capabilities & professional development opportunities within the organization

A highly accomplished executive team with a plan to scale Apex Growth, that works with you to become a major player in the growth marketing agency space

A competitive salary and bonus structure

401(k) with company matching

Generous (and by generous we mean unlimited) PTO

Paid Vacation, Paid Bereavement, and Paid Family Leave

Full Health Benefits (Dental, Vision, Wellness)

Learning and career development program

These benefits are applicable to Apex Growth, US based, full-time employees only. 1099 / Contract Providers are ineligible for these benefits.

Still wondering why you should consider joining the Apex Growth team? Hear from Apex Growth Co-founders David Mausolf and Dave Riggs talk about what sets us apart.

Why join the team at Apex Growth?

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