Associate Creative Director, Copy

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Los Angeles, CA
In-Office
140K-170K Annually
AdTech • Marketing Tech
The Role

As an Associate Creative Director, you bring a creative voice with strategic thinking to projects. You have a diverse array of experiences to bring to the role—from conceptual development to client relations to the execution of creative deliverables. You’ll create and communicate concepts, dig into marketing and social platform strategies, and develop interactive solutions to deliver excellent digital and social experiences.  

Leading creatives and working alongside multidisciplinary leads—in strategy, account, technology, and project management—doesn’t faze you. You build strong client relationships with expertise, and work to push big thinking in the digital space. Most importantly, you embody and embrace our values—to be honest, inspired, drive, passionate and real—in everything you do.   

You Will:  

  • Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of brand and the overall industry via concept, copy, and execution. 
  • Ideate and execute on deliverables that includes but is not limited to social, digital, video, experiences, and content. Often alongside an ACD, Art partner.
  • Craft campaign ideas for client projects that are digital-first and social by design.
  • Build and guide the creative team around account needs and vision.
  • Prepare and present creative ideas to project stakeholders, such as clients and integrated project leads.
  • Take direction from internal and integrated creative leaders.
  • Partner with multidisciplinary teams including account, strategy and project management to ensure that projects tasks and timelines are clear.
  • Provide regular team mentorship and constructive feedback, especially within the copy discipline.
  • Juggle multiple projects simultaneously, managing day-to-day needs and providing direction creative team as needed.
  • Work closely with production partners and vendors to coordinate and complete projects on time and with exceptional craft. 
  • Improve upon creative department methods, problem-solving models, and best practices.
  • Promote a culture of excellence and accountability.  

You Have:  

  • 6+ years copy experience.  
  • Exceptional writing skills, including the ability to write in a range of voices and styles for varied projects with diverse audiences.
  • Excellent presentation skills.
  • Proven aptitude for quick, creative thinking with acute attention to detail within demanding deadlines.
  • A keen enthusiasm for and demonstrable understanding of social trends and digital opportunities.
  • Experience with brainstorming, campaign development, creative brief development, and creative execution.
  • The ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and effectively juggle diverse writing demand.
  • Solid knowledge and appreciation for the distinction between creative expression and commercial reality. 

Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 3 days a week.

We continually review ranges to address skills, experience and markets. Base salaries are determined during our interview process, by assessing a number of factors that include, but aren’t limited to, a candidate’s experience and skills relative to the scope and responsibilities of the position. For current CM employees, tenure will also be a consideration.

Salary Range

$140,000$170,000 USD

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer. 

The Critical Mass Talent Acquisition team will only communicate from email addresses that use the URLs criticalmass.com and us.greenhouse-mail.io. We will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. We will never ask you to send us money, technology, or anything else to work for our company. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, please review your local government consumer protections guidance and reach out to them directly.

If U.S. based: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams#avoid
If Canada based: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/finance/consumer-affairs.html
If U.K. based: https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights
If Costa Rica based: https://www.consumo.go.cr/educacion_consumidor/consejos_practicos.aspx 

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Chicago, IL
2,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1996

What We Do

We’re Critical Mass. We are 2,000 inspired humans across 14 offices, setting the right path—not just the next one—for our clients, their customers, and our own colleagues. We work with the best, Apple, Adobe, BMW, Nike, Diageo, Airbnb, BNY and many more, to power connected ecosystems that make brands stand out by driving performance with data, technology, AI, creative and media. We’re a global marketing agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. We’re driven, uncompromising and we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Learn more at criticalmass.com.

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