Creative Strategist

Creative Strategist (French & English), Dubai, on-site

Short is a creative agency specialised in short-form video. We create content and campaigns for brands: performance ads, brand and awareness campaigns, product and venue launches, organic content. We find the idea, write it, shoot it and measure what it does. Our team in France doubles in size every year, and we are now building our Dubai team.

Our Dubai clients are French-speaking founders and international brands, and our core team works in French. Fluent French and fluent English are both mandatory for this role.

The role in one sentence

You own a portfolio of client accounts end to end: you build the creative strategy, produce the concepts and scripts for both performance and brand campaigns, lead the client relationship, and make the client want to renew.

What you will do

• Build the creative strategy for each client, whatever the goal: sales, awareness, a brand campaign, a product or venue launch, organic growth.
• Produce the creative: concepts, scripts, shooting briefs and iterations, for ads as well as brand and social content.
• Read results across channels (Meta, TikTok, YouTube, organic) and turn them into the next creative decision.
• Lead the client: run their meetings, present results, and defend your creative choices.
• Manage your batches: keep statuses up to date and deliver concepts and scripts within 3 business days.
• Drive renewals: client re-engagement is the number one KPI of our creative team.

You report to Julien, our Head of Creative. On every account you work with a Project Manager, who runs production, and an Account Manager, who handles the commercial side (contract, negotiation, upsell).

What success looks like after 12 months

• You run a portfolio of around 10 accounts.
• 50% or more of your clients renew.
• 100% of your batches are delivered on time.

Must-haves

• Professional or native French and English, written and spoken.
• Real experience in creative strategy, content or campaigns, agency or brand side. Show us results: reach, spend, ROAS, launch numbers, volume of content produced.
• You can create beyond paid ads: brand campaigns, awareness campaigns, launches, social content.
• You have written scripts in volume: ads, social videos, brand films.
• At ease with data and ad platforms (Meta Business Manager, TikTok Ads Manager): you read results and turn them into a decision.
• You use AI tools in your daily workflow.
• You can lead a client call on your own and defend a creative choice against the client's opinion.
• Based in Dubai (or relocating), and happy to work on-site in a fast, high-volume startup environment.

Nice to have

• Accounts spending more than $50,000 per month.
• A brand, product or venue launch you led from idea to results.
• You have turned around a difficult client situation: an unhappy client won back, or an account relaunched after a drop.
• Experience in sectors we work with: real estate, e-commerce, SaaS/apps, hospitality, info products.
• Hands-on content skills: directing on set, framing, editing basics.

What does not matter to us

Your degree, or your number of years for its own sake. What matters is that your ideas deliver, whether the goal is sales, awareness or a launch.

What this role is not

It is not a project management role. You will not chase production teams: you think, write, analyse and lead the client.

What we offer

• A full-time position in Dubai, on-site with the team, with your UAE work visa sponsored.
• Open to freelance profiles too: tell us in your application.
• A package defined with you, based on your level.
• Real ownership of your accounts in an agency that doubles every year.

Our hiring process (about 2 weeks)

1. Application review
2. 45-min video interview
3. Live case study: you get 72 hours to prepare, then present it on a 45-min call
4. Reference calls
5. 1-hour final interview on-site in Dubai with Clément Vannier, General Manager of Short Dubai
6. Decision and offer

How to apply

Apply with Easy Apply and answer the screening questions. Add to your CV or message a link to ads you have scripted or strategised. A short video introduction is a real plus.