In this talk I will present a new hybrid approach to jet quenching in a strongly coupled medium. The basis of this phenomenological approach is to treat physics processes at different energy scales differently. The high virtuality processes associated with the QCD evolution of a hard parton are treated perturbatively, while the interactions of this shower with the surrounding deconfined matter are modelled using qualitative insights via gauge/gravity duality. The system is embedded into a hydrodynamic description of hot QCD matter and jet observables are computed, obtaining very good agreement with jet data for heavy ion collisions at the LHC.