Creative Director, Copy

Role Overview

As Creative Director, Copy, you’re a leader that’s responsible for building and ensuring our team is building big ideas, creative platforms/narratives, and activation plans. The ideal candidate is equally strategic and creative, has experience leading RFPs and overseeing Creatives & Strategists.

You’ll work on existing client projects and new RFPs for everything from experiential activations and stunts to social plans and campaigns – coming up with the strategic plans, creative platforms, and ideas that bring it all to life. You’ll report to the VP of Strategy & Narrative and have 1-2 direct reports to start.

Soft skills are extremely important to our team, especially as a leader. You need to be tapped in, passionate about the work, good at taking initiative, able to push your own ideas forward, communicate your ideas clearly, collaborate cross-functionally, and solve problems with empathy.

You and your team are the idea engine, responsible for cultural insights, great storytelling, and big ideas/activations.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Serve as the Creative Lead on key work streams (project-based and AORs), owning the strategy playbook, creative platform, big ideas, and activation plans.


• Manage and provide oversight to Creatives & Strategists on projects, with feedback and direction that helps them build great work and sell their plans through to our clients.


• Build amazing decks. Great copy. Elevated design. Great visual references. Then, present and pitch your work to internal and external leaders, often VPs and CMOs.


• Lead on new RFPs, collaborating closely with Accounts, Strategy, and Production to pitch amazing strategic & creative proposals.


• Serve as a strategic thought partner to our clients by helping define and shape the brand’s vision/role for their partnership with a roadmap for our team to help them get there.


• Go from brief to execution, being able to take in a client brief, build out a plan, and follow through on the execution of creative and production.


• Develop and implement new processes that help the team work better. 


• Assist in the development and growth of the Creative & Strategy departments through education and hiring.

Requirements

• 8+ years of working in creative/strategy – agency, brand, tech preferred.


• 3-5 years of managing direct reports.


• Strong book (sport, music, entertainment are a plus).


• Great taste in creative work, strong level of polish in your own work.


• Experience building full strategy decks (copy, flow, design)


• Strong leadership skills and experience helping people grow in their roles.


• Proficiency in creating Google Slides decks (design, layout, speed, familiarity).


• Excellent pitching, storytelling, and communication skills.

Note: this role was previously listed as Director of Creative Strategy

The pay range for this position is $175,000 - $200,000 per year. This position is also eligible for benefits and discretionary bonus.