Associate Creative Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in paid social creative strategy and copywriting, with demonstrated expertise in creative formats, hooks, and structures across Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Pinterest.
• Experience with large-spend accounts of $500,000 or more per month in paid media that require high volumes of creative ad units, including frameworks to concept, produce, and test at scale.
• Experience managing or mentoring strategists, designers, or other creatives, with a record of developing their skills and output.
• A history of leading client relationships and driving midsize or larger accounts to strategic success.
• Deep experience building and operating structured creative testing frameworks and calendars across multiple accounts simultaneously.
• Ability to interpret performance data and turn it into insights, learnings, and actionable creative recommendations.
• Extensive experience building and presenting client-facing decks about creative performance and strategy.
• Working knowledge of ad formats, creative testing frameworks, and persona development.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools in a strategic or creative workflow.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience pitching prospective new clients.

Nice To Haves

• Google Demand Gen, PMax, or YouTube creative experience.
• Retail creative experience.

Responsibilities

• Own paid social creative strategy across a portfolio of mid- to large-size accounts, including ad format recommendations, persona development, messaging angles, and hook frameworks.
• Apply paid social platform expertise to drive client creative performance.
• Design and operate structured paid social testing agendas and calendars across multiple accounts, defining test priorities and success measures and keeping programs on track.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a small team of strategists and designers by setting priorities, reviewing work, and building their skills.
• Lead client-facing creative strategy presentations, explain performance and recommendations, and develop trusted advisor relationships.
• Guide accounts toward strategic success by connecting creative decisions to business outcomes and identifying risks and opportunities.
• Use performance metrics to encourage best practices, new ad formats, and performance-first execution.
• Translate performance data, including thumbstop, CTR, ROAS, and CPA, into insights and actionable creative and copy recommendations.
• Oversee the quality of team strategies, briefs, hooks, headlines, and scripts, ensuring deliverables align with the strategy.
• Champion AI tools and workflows for research, concepting, copywriting, and creative variation development.
• Collaborate with media, analytics, and account teams to bring campaigns from brief to launch.
• Partner with clients to understand their brands, goals, and performance benchmarks and translate them into strategy.
• Monitor paid social trends, platform updates, ad formats, and competitor creative, and keep the team informed.
• Pitch prospective new clients.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Retirement program
• Parental leave and return-to-work program
• Flexible Time Off
• Sabbatical opportunities
• Paid holidays
• Quarterly company Recharge Days
• December holiday closure
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities
• Company bonus based on company and client success