The Associate Creative Director will lead and execute content strategies, manage projects, collaborate with teams, and ensure brand voice consistency across various formats in a remote-first environment.
The opportunity:
As part of the growing creative team at FINN Partners you’ll tackle a wide range of client projects—always through the lens of audience needs and business impact—both leading work and executing it within an integrated content marketing system.
Who we’re looking for:
An editorially-savvy ACD, Copy who is as comfortable writing a compelling email headline as they are building a complex messaging framework for a new product or service line.
You:
What you’ll be a part of:
Where will you work?
Anywhere in the U.S. We're a remote-first workplace with optional in-office days in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, LA, Nashville, New York, Portland, Washington, DC, and more. (Pacific time zone preferred to best align with team collaboration hours.)
You’re a strong candidate if you have:
Anticipated Salary: $90,000 - $110,000
Commensurate with experience and depending location.
To apply:
Please upload your resume (including a link to your portfolio), cover letter, and your desired salary in $USD.
While we appreciate the interest of all candidates, we will only respond to those with whom we have a greater interest.
About Finn Partners:
FINN Partners is a great place to work, but don’t take our word for it. We’ve been voted “#1 Best Agency to Work For” in the Extra-Large Agency Category by PR Week. Our team shares an entrepreneurial spirit and a collaborative culture, which makes us a sought-after employer. Join us to grow your career and be part of a team that’s making an impact.
Will you join us?
#LI-TS1 #LI-REMOTE
As part of the growing creative team at FINN Partners you’ll tackle a wide range of client projects—always through the lens of audience needs and business impact—both leading work and executing it within an integrated content marketing system.
Who we’re looking for:
An editorially-savvy ACD, Copy who is as comfortable writing a compelling email headline as they are building a complex messaging framework for a new product or service line.
You:
- Understand that effective copywriting comes from a deep understanding of who you’re writing for, what motivates them, and how to communicate in their terms.
- Are a words nerd who isn’t afraid to embrace new formats and technologies.
- Can effectively architect content strategy to help ensure copy is consistent, compelling, and true to brand.
- Take ownership of projects from start to finish, asking “What if?” every step of the way.
- Can frictionlessly shift between directing writers to execute your vision and writing yourself.
- Take pride in your craft, but you also know empathetic collaboration yields better work.
- Know how to use original copywriting, and the deep strategic thinking that shaping effective content requires, to ensure clients stay differentiated and ahead of trends.
- Collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team of writers, art directors, project managers, strategists, and all-around nice people to develop and execute multi-channel creative concepts that are on brief and on brand.
- Thinking strategically before you write: interrogating briefs, identifying the sharpest insight, and ensuring the creative idea is doing real work, not just sounding good.
- Concepting, writing, and copyediting across a wide range of formats: websites, social media, email, video storyboards, sales collateral, presentations, infographics or data visualization, brand guidelines, messaging frameworks, and content strategies.
- Functioning as a creative and strategic partner to the CD, helping shape the thinking and stepping into that elevated role with confidence when needed.
- Ensuring cohesiveness of brand voice across a complex system of business units within larger brand systems.
- Balancing pitching bold new ideas with efficiently developing fresh content within existing templates or approaches.
- Leading multiple projects and deadlines while maintaining high standards of quality.
- Presenting your work with confidence, clarity, and strong rationale.
- Staying connected and collaborative with the team, but working independently and proactively when needed.
What you’ll be a part of:
- One of the fastest-growing integrated marketing and PR agencies.
- A team of talented, kind, and collaborative professionals across disciplines.
- Leadership that’s approachable and committed to your development.
- A shared commitment to delivering bold, meaningful work that drives results for clients.
- A culture where creative and strategy sit at the same table, and both have a real voice.
Where will you work?
Anywhere in the U.S. We're a remote-first workplace with optional in-office days in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, LA, Nashville, New York, Portland, Washington, DC, and more. (Pacific time zone preferred to best align with team collaboration hours.)
You’re a strong candidate if you have:
- A portfolio highlighting a range of copywriting, editing, and strategic thinking across long and short form.
- ACD-level experience leading work within a creative department, either at an agency or in-house at a financial brand.
- Experience working in an advertising agency.
- Experience in financial services—wealth management, banking, or fintech—and a knack for making complex products feel human.
- A high degree of comfort with strategy—able to work beyond execution to shape messaging frameworks, define positioning, and connect creative output to broader business and audience objectives.
- A dedication to collaboration, empathy, and innovation.
- Proficiency collaborating via software such as Google Docs/Drive, Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Word/PowerPoint, Box, and Figma.
- People who you’ve worked with before who will vouch for your copywriting/editing and leadership skills.
Anticipated Salary: $90,000 - $110,000
Commensurate with experience and depending location.
To apply:
Please upload your resume (including a link to your portfolio), cover letter, and your desired salary in $USD.
While we appreciate the interest of all candidates, we will only respond to those with whom we have a greater interest.
About Finn Partners:
FINN Partners is a great place to work, but don’t take our word for it. We’ve been voted “#1 Best Agency to Work For” in the Extra-Large Agency Category by PR Week. Our team shares an entrepreneurial spirit and a collaborative culture, which makes us a sought-after employer. Join us to grow your career and be part of a team that’s making an impact.
Will you join us?
#LI-TS1 #LI-REMOTE
Finn Partners Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
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