Associate Creative Director / Copywriter

Bakery Agency•Austin, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Bakery is an independent creative agency built to make people obsessed with great products. We work with ambitious brands to give them cultural value and help them make things people want. We've made work for Nike, Pepsi, Dairy Queen, Shiner, and Buchanan's, among others. We've been named an AdAge Small Agency of the Year four times. We're hiring an Associate Creative Director to join us in Austin. You partner with an ACD on the art side and report into a Creative Director. Together you run the work day to day, from the brief to the final deliverable. You're not just managing, you're in it. Writing lines, shaping scripts, sitting in the edit, pushing a piece until it's right. You lead by doing. Senior, mid-weight, and junior creatives on your team learn what good looks like by watching how you work, not just by getting your notes on their work. You set the standard in the room, on set, on the page, in the edit bay, wherever the work actually gets made.

Requirements

At least 8 years in top agencies making work that has shipped and had impact
Candidates from agencies making work that is recognized and respected
Experience running multiple clients at once
Experience with a pitch cadence that doesn't stop
A portfolio with real, produced work across film, OOH, experiences, social, and digital
Direct, hands-on writing chops. You're still doing the work, not just reviewing it
Experience leading and teaching creatives across seniority levels, by example
Comfort presenting to clients and holding your own in the room
Experience on set. ACDs are a key presence at shoots to ensure the creative plan is followed
An obsession with craft. Noticing and fixing details others miss

Nice To Haves

Work that has made the rounds at award circuits

Responsibilities

Hands-on development of the work alongside your team, not just oversight of it
Day-to-day leadership of writers across every level, senior to junior
Partnership with your art-side ACD to keep ideas and execution moving together
Bridging the gap between a CD's vision and what actually gets made
Client presentations, alongside your CD and on your own when it's called for
Write and lead the copy on your work, not just direct someone else's
Set the voice and standard for writers below you, by doing the work in front of them
Present your own thinking directly to clients and hold the room when it's challenged
Push back on feedback that would flatten the idea, and know the difference between that and feedback that makes it better
Partner tightly with an art-side ACD so copy and concept move as one thing, not two