Creative Lead (Social & UGC)

The role

You will act as the final creative eye for a performance creative agency. You will review storyboards, raw footage, and final edits to ensure high quality for DTC client ads.

What you will do

• Review storyboards, raw footage, and final edits before they go to clients
• Build and maintain ad example libraries, creative checklists, and quality guides
• Provide hands-on creative direction to video editors on pacing, cuts, and sound design
• Review raw footage after shoots to provide direction on usability
• Review storyboards to flag shootability and missing requirements
• Join shoots at the Amsterdam studio periodically
• Maintain a relationship with TikTok, Meta, and emerging short-form platforms
• Curate a regular inspiration feed for the team
• Give Creative Strategists feedback on CSPs and scripts
• Approve the company's own social content and website portfolio

Required qualifications

• 3–7 years of hands-on experience in video production, editing, content creation, or a creative role at a social-first agency or DTC brand
• Current feel for short-form social content
• Ability to understand paid media and performance marketing reports
• Real editing experience or close collaboration with editors
• On-set or production experience
• Ability to provide specific, timestamped, and producible feedback
• High EQ
• Comfortable with ambiguity and pace
• Fluent in English
• Based in +/−3 hrs CET time zone

Benefits

• Creative Milkshake Stipends (mental health, healthcare & internet)
• 21 days PTO
• 7 Paid Sick Days
• Company closure: 2 weeks at year-end (estimated: December 22 – January 5)
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Yearly Salary Review
• Long Service Incentives (starting from 2 years)

About the company

Creative Milkshake is a remote-first performance creative agency that makes short-form ads for DTC brands on Meta and TikTok. They are part of the Fieldtrip group alongside inBeat.