Associate Creative Director
About The Position
The Associate Creative Director is an experienced creative who is developing as a creative leader and serves as a trusted resource within the creative department and across agency departments. The role collaborates with strategy to develop insightful ideas and with account teams to strengthen ideas before client presentation. It contributes meaningfully to the agency’s overall creative output, developing both ideas and the narratives used to sell them. The position works across brand-platform and tactical thinking and across media, including film, activation, social, innovation, digital, e-commerce, and experiential. It presents ideas internally and externally, builds client relationships, develops a distinct creative point of view, and begins mentoring younger creatives. Success is measured by the quality and impact of ideas; best-in-class craft and technical ability; the ability to connect strategy, business challenges, culture, and touchpoints in a compelling narrative; versatility across clients and formats; collaboration across departments; and a distinctive creative contribution. The role is expected to produce on-brief work that raises the bar, solves client briefs, earns client approval, and may win awards, while staying fluent in emerging technology and media.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to develop ideas that solve briefs and are bought by clients; a track record of award-winning ideas is cited as a performance criterion.
- Ability to craft work at a best-in-class level and avoid flat or underdeveloped work.
- Ability to build a full narrative around an idea, connecting strategy, business challenges, culture, and touchpoints.
- Ability to deliver platform ideas through tactical executions and work across clients and formats.
- Strong internal and external presentation skills and comfort presenting to clients.
- Ability to collaborate across agency departments while elevating and driving work forward.
- Fluency in emerging technology and media.
Responsibilities
- Develop strong, on-brief creative ideas that raise the quality of client work and address client briefs.
- Collaborate with strategy to develop insightful ideas and with account teams to strengthen ideas before client presentations.
- Craft the narrative around ideas, connecting strategy, business challenges, culture, and relevant touchpoints.
- Develop creative work from brand-platform concepts through tactical executions across a range of media and formats.
- Present ideas internally and externally and build relationships with clients.
- Collaborate meaningfully with strategy, account, project management, production, social, and other departments while advancing the work.
- Mentor younger creatives and model a considered creative style and attitude.
- Stay fluent in emerging technology and media.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
