KCCI, Iowa’s News Leader in Des Moines, is seeking its next Assistant Creative Services Director. This role is ideal for a passionate, strategic creative leader who can both produce compelling promotional content and guide a team in delivering high-impact work. You’ll play a key role in strengthening the KCCI brand across broadcast, digital, and streaming platforms.
You’ll report to Creative Services Director and collaborate closely with teams across News, Digital, Sales, and our network partners.
What You’ll Do
- Partner with the Creative Services Director to develop and execute brand strategies that drive awareness, audience connection, and daily engagement
- Create and oversee promotional campaigns for on-air and digital content, ensuring clarity, urgency, and brand consistency
- Lead, schedule, and mentor a creative team producing image, topical, proof-of-impact, and other promotional messaging
- Write, shoot, and edit high-quality on-air promotions with strong storytelling, production technique, and visual execution
- Develop targeted social campaigns that extend reach and reinforce the station’s promise
- Manage daily on-air inventory and logs, coordinating production workflows to ensure smooth execution and on-time delivery
- Oversee special projects from concept through completion
- Represent KCCI at community events and key internal meetings
What Success Looks Like
- Viewers clearly understand what sets KCCI’s news coverage apart
- Messaging is consistent across on-air, digital, and social platforms—building trust with every impression
- You are organized, energized, and consistently delivering high-quality, effective work
- Innovative tools, including AI, are thoughtfully integrated to improve efficiency and elevate creative output
What You Bring
- 3+ years of experience in marketing, promotion, or brand management (media experience strongly preferred)
- At least 1 year of experience executing brand strategy across multiple platforms (broadcast, digital, social)
- Strong writing, storytelling, and conceptual skills
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively and deliver results with high production standards
- Hands-on production expertise, including non-linear editing (Adobe Creative Suite or similar)
- Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, videography equipment, WideOrbit, and ENPS
- Valid driver’s license with a clean driving record (required for hire)
- Related military experience considered
Values in Action
At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.
Benefits
Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.
- Medical | Dental | Vision
- 401(k) matching
- Emotional Wellness Support
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- LGBTQ+ Health Services
Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. we do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national, origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in marketing, promotion, or brand management (media experience strongly preferred)
- At least 1 year of experience executing brand strategy across broadcast, digital, and social platforms
- Strong writing, storytelling, and conceptual skills
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively and deliver results with high production standards
- Hands-on production expertise, including non-linear editing (Adobe Creative Suite or similar)
- Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, videography equipment, WideOrbit, and ENPS
- Valid driver's license with a clean driving record (required for hire)
- Related military experience considered
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
Hearst Insights
What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
