Freelance Associate Creative Director, Writing

Summary:

About you:

You’re a writer’s writer. You read books. You love words. You care about punctuation and the
rhythm and feel it gives a sentence, and you appreciated the em dash long before AI made
people second guess themselves for using one.

When it comes to copy, you’re equal parts strategist and stylist. You care deeply about what the
copy says and obsess over saying it in the most compelling way possible.

You’re curious, with an award-winning attitude. No matter how long you’ve been doing this,
you’re still eager to learn as much as you can from everyone you meet.

You love collaborating with smart, hardworking people who love the craft and hold themselves
to the highest standards of excellence.

Speaking of people, you care a lot about bringing humanity into everything you do.

You are genuinely interested in all kinds of businesses and want to understand how they
operate.

You know the difference between an idea and an execution.

You’re passionate about building great brands and creating the advertising that powers their
growth.

You have a lot of range. If you were an actor, you wouldn’t be the kind that plays the same role
every time. No, not you—you’d adapt, you’d adjust, and you’d bring something new to every
performance.

If this sounds like you, we want to hop on a Zoom as soon as possible.

The Associate Creative Director, Writing is expected to:

• Lead the development and definition of the “voice” for a client, program or
  individual project.
• Establish and/or interpret brand positioning, tone and attributes.
• Think visually as well as verbally, contributing from the outset to the structure, concept,
  look and feel of a client project.
• Work closely with strategists, designers, and other team members to create and refine
  content and/or build campaign concepts
• Quickly identify gaps in knowledge and take initiative to fill them
• Participate in new-business development, contributing to RFP responses, pitches and
  spec creative
• Meet and manage to deadlines
• Foster a working environment that promotes and embraces independent and creative
  thinking, diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Ideally, you bring the following qualifications:

• 6 to 9 years of experience in branding, marketing, advertising, business,
  communications or a related field.
•  An undergraduate degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Advertising or
  Integrated/Strategic Communications.
• Experience in a client-facing role in a professional services environment.
• A portfolio that demonstrates the skills listed above.

This is a contract-to-hire position with the intent to transition to a permanent, full-time role pending performance and mutual fit.