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# AI PErformance Creative Strategist at Pearmill

- **Company:** Pearmill
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-31
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pearmill/57d76eb3-7d1e-4b79-809f-e48b178e2824

## Job description

The role in a nutshell: Pearmill is a Claude-native performance creative agency. A lot of our clients are B2B SaaS, fintech, and AI companies, plus some fun D2C brands. You'll be the creative brain on some of our biggest accounts: find the buyer and the hook, build the strategy, and run each round with our production team. You also know how to make the ads yourself, so your briefs are sharper and you can jump in when a round needs it. And you'll build the Claude skills that make the whole team faster. Ready to run: You should be able to own a big account within your first few weeks, and think past the ad to what the client's business needs. You'll have a team: Our designers, motion designers, and UGC producers build most of the work. You'll also work alongside other strategists, plus a Growth Manager and media buyers on each account.

## What you'll do

- Research each account in Claude (ICP, buying committee, reviews, sales calls) and tear down competitors
- Build the strategy: core audience, messaging pillars, micro-audiences, hooks
- Run each round from brief to delivery with our designers, motion designers, and UGC producers
- Jump in and make an ad yourself in Claude when it's faster or the round needs it
- Read results with media buyers past the click (leads, pipeline, CAC) and call iterate, scale, or kill
- Present rounds to clients and own the creative section of new business pitches
- Bring a point of view: spot what's next in creative and AI, and share it with the team, clients, and Pearmill's audience
- Build Claude skills and agents that automate research, briefing, QA, and reporting, and get the team using them

## Your toolkit

Claude sits at the center. Expect us to ask you to walk us through how you use it.

- Research: Claude, the Meta Ad Library, Motion or Foreplay
- Production: Claude projects and skills, AI image and video tools, Figma
- Analytics: Claude connected to Meta, LinkedIn, and Google Ads data, plus Motion

Who you've worked with A lot of our clients are B2B SaaS, fintech, and AI companies, so B2B experience matters: considered purchases, longer sales cycles, buying committees. We also work with consumer brands, so range helps. If you've only done ecommerce or CPG, expect a steep learning curve.

## Who you are

- 5+ years in performance creative strategy, with 2+ at an agency
- You've owned a major account, and you think about the client's business, not just the ad
- You have opinions on where creative and AI are heading, and people want to hear them
- Recent B2B, SaaS, fintech, or AI experience
- A trained eye. No formal design training needed, but your portfolio shows taste
- You know how ads get made, and you could make one end to end in Claude yourself if you had to
- You're Claude-native and have built your own projects, skills, or agents. Bring examples
- You can explain why an ad worked by who it targeted and what it solved, not just "it was entertaining"
- You know ad compliance: disclaimers, AI disclosure, FTC rules

## Benefits

- Unlimited vacation, with 3 weeks required
- Unlimited mental and physical health leave
- 99% coverage for health, dental, and vision
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%
- Profit sharing
- 6 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Learning, remote work, and equipment budgets, plus an indoor plant budget

## About Pearmill

Pearmill runs over $500M in ad spend across 15+ platforms. We're a remote team of marketers, creatives, engineers, and analysts, and we build our own Claude skills and agents to do better work, faster. Clients come to us to fix a channel and end up with a system that keeps working. Flourishing at Pearmill We get an unreasonable amount of satisfaction out of making the things around us better at their jobs. Clients who arrived wanting a channel fixed and left with a system. People who joined to run ad accounts and left able to build a team that runs global strategy. And most recently, our little AI agents running around our Notion docs and giving us super powers. We're a fast growing, diverse group of goofy yet dedicated marketers, creatives, engineers, and analysts, running over $500M in ad spend across 15+ platforms. Join us!

## About Pearmill

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pearmill is an AI-native creative and performance marketing agency that helps fast-scaling startups and category creators achieve exponential growth through data-driven insights, beautiful advertising, and a tech-company culture.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Operating as an Agency / Partnership)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Nima Gardideh (Co-founder, President, CTO), Mary Boyagi (Co-founder, Creative Director), Donovan McKnight (Partner, Head of Creative), Leala King (Partner, Head of Creative)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Advertising Services, Digital Performance Marketing, Creative Production, Growth Analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C startups, fast-scaling brands, and category creators in fintech, DTC, consumer goods, healthcare, and B2B.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To shift advertising towards a more trustworthy industry by producing beautiful, honest, and high-performing ads, while creating a healthier and more transparent environment for our people." [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **[Full-Funnel Performance Marketing]**: End-to-end management of paid social and paid search campaigns across platforms like Meta, Google, and TikTok, focused on delivering measurable ROAS.
- **[Data-Informed Creative Production]**: A specialized service combining creative strategy, copywriting, and design to produce high-performing ad assets that are "beautiful and honest."
- **[Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) & Analytics]**: Services that help clients optimize landing pages and user flows, paired with advanced growth analytics and attribution modeling to understand campaign effectiveness.
- **[Proprietary AI & Tech Stack]**: An "AI-native" approach where the team integrates data engineering and proprietary technology to automate workflows and enhance human judgment, setting them apart from traditional agencies. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Privately held).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Recurring Revenue / Run Rate not disclosed; workforce of **24-30 employees**; reported to be growing faster than traditional agencies, achieving a run rate that most agencies require over a decade to reach within 5 years. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed. The company is structured as a partnership (Pearlstein McCullough, LLP) rather than a VC-backed startup. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pearmill)
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Reports helping clients **3x their ROAS** on average.
    - Operates in **10 countries** with a highly distributed team.
    - Has strong LinkedIn follower growth (+18.0% yearly, total 1,630 followers). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pearmill)
    - Identifies as a "fastest-growing performance marketing agency in the US."

## Competitive Advantages
- **Tech-Company Culture vs. Agency Model**: Pearmill explicitly designs itself to operate more like a tech company than a traditional agency. They focus on hiring "outliers" and providing extreme autonomy rather than relying on junior talent arbitrage. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Long-Term Client Relationships**: They are highly selective about client partnerships and are willing to "fire clients" who are not a good fit, fostering deep, long-term engagements. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Profit Sharing & Talent Retention**: A significant differentiator is their profit-sharing model, which ties team member compensation directly to the success of the business. This is rare in the agency world and aligns incentives. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
- **Integrated AI & Human Judgment**: They combine human creativity with proprietary data engineering and AI tools, claiming this blend allows them to outperform competitors who rely solely on one or the other. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling an "Outlier" Team**: The company is focused on recruiting "outliers" from unconventional backgrounds who thrive on autonomy and designing new solutions, rather than fitting a typical corporate mold. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Building a Global, Remote-First Infrastructure**: With people across New York, Bay Area, Kiev, Minneapolis, Berlin, and Skopje, they are actively building a distributed and global culture.
- **Productizing Agency Services**: They are moving toward a more tech-centric model by building AI tools and frameworks that can be reused and scaled, moving beyond one-off project work.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Transparency**: Pearmill emphasizes a "healthier and more transparent environment." They are open about their compensation philosophy, profit sharing, and even their willingness to fire incompatible clients. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Distributed, Remote, and Global**: The company is fully setup for remote work, providing a "remote work budget" and allowing staff to work from wherever they are most productive. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
- **Exceptional Perks & Benefits**:
    - 99% coverage for Health Care, Dental, and Vision. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
    - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and 6 weeks of fully paid parental leave. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
    - Profit Sharing (compensation tied to client success).
    - Unlimited vacation with a mandatory 3-week minimum.
    - 401k with 100% matching up to 4%.
    - Matching charitable donations and budget for activism.
    - Budget for learning (books, seminars, courses) and equipment (laptop, indoor plants). [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/careers)
    - Unlimited mental or physical health leave.
- **Autonomy & Impact**: Employees are given extreme autonomy and are expected to act as "outliers" with outsized impact, similar to early hires at tech giants like Stripe or Airbnb. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)
- **Engineering & Tech Focus**: While an agency, they hire engineers and data scientists to build their internal tech stack, appealing to those who want to work on ad-tech and data engineering challenges. [pearmill.com](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

## Sources
1. [pearmill.com Careers](https://pearmill.com/careers)
2. [linkedin.com Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pearmill)
3. [builtin.com Company Overview](https://builtin.com/company/pearmill)
4. [theorg.com Org Chart](https://theorg.com/org/pearmill)
5. [pearmill.com Blog: Agency Culture](https://pearmill.com/blog/agency-culture)

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