Agency:TMA
Job Function:Creative
Job Subfunction: Copywriting
Job Description:As an
Associate Creative Director (Copywriting) at dotdotdash, you inspire and lead teams to create inventive work across digital, physical, and immersive spaces. ACDs are both players and coaches. They're creatives who are hands-on with craft, and they're also leaders, mentors and culture-creators, ensuring collaboration and excellence from teams made up of diverse and cutting-edge writers, designers and technologists.
You'll direct, oversee (and do) narrative, concept and content work across campaigns, experiences and activations, ensuring all touchpoints deliver impactful storytelling, industry-first innovations and top-tier execution, and you'll also work behind the scenes to build teams, align with production requirements, and build client relationships.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:- Lead teams in the development of brand narratives, campaign ideas, and written executions for integrated and non-traditional campaigns spanning digital, experiential, content, and innovation-driven projects.
- Drive projects from concept through execution, translating strategy into compelling ideas and messaging while delivering strategically sound, client-ready work.
- Ensure the quality and impact of writing meets both agency and client standards.
- Act as a trusted partner to clients, providing strategic and creative counsel to address brand challenges.
- Mentor and empower copywriters across levels, fostering an environment of growth, creativity, and inclusivity.
- Lead by example by staying on top of trends, cultural conversations, and emerging platforms and technologies, continually fueling dotdotdash's culture of creativity and inspiration.
- Balance hands-on creative work with leadership responsibilities, making critical decisions to move projects forward.
- Oversee and guide projects from inception to execution, informing team casting, managing creative workflows, and ensuring deadlines and deliverables align with strategic and creative goals.
- Be a champion of experimentation and play, in cultural expression as well as tech implementation. Bring new ideas, new stories and new technologies to the team to stay ahead of culture and write the future.
QUALIFICATIONS: - 10+ years of experience in creative and copywriting in a range of creative work such as campaigns, digital and experiential, product and editorial/content work.
- Very strong conceptual mindset, continually generating, refining and articulating ideas that transform brands and culture.
- An impeccable level of craft and care.
- Expertise in brand voice, content strategy, narrative and scripting (including non-sequential) and social.
- An award-winning portfolio of culturally relevant and insight-grounded work that includes narrative and comms, social and integrated, experiential and product writing and ideation.
- Comfortable with AI, not just as a creative toolkit but as a product and channel. You're a skilled prompt engineer, building agents with personality as well as function.
- Strong presentation ability (IRL and virtual). You can convey a cohesive narrative to sell ideas.
- Skilled in design tools, particularly Figma, and the spectrum of writing and presentation tools (including Microsoft 365, Google, Keynote).
- A strong understanding of emerging technologies and concepts.
- A proven track record of leading and mentoring multidisciplinary creative teams.
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