Creative Director, Copy

Game Seven

$175K — $200K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in creative/strategy roles, preferably in agency, brand, or tech environments.
  • 3-5 years of managerial experience leading direct reports.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing expertise in sports, music, entertainment, or similar fields.
  • Demonstrated ability to create comprehensive strategy decks including copy, flow, and design.
  • Exceptional leadership skills with a proven track record in team development and personal growth assistance.
  • Proficient in designing Google Slides decks quickly and effectively with great layout and design principles.
  • Outstanding pitching, storytelling, and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the Creative Lead on key work streams, overseeing strategy playbook and generating big ideas and activation plans.
  • Manage Creatives & Strategists, providing constructive feedback to enhance project outcomes and client presentations.
  • Create compelling presentation decks with excellent copy and elevated design, pitching ideas to top-level executives.
  • Lead responses to new RFPs, working closely with cross-functional teams to craft persuasive proposals.
  • Act as a strategic partner for clients, helping define their brand vision and outlining collaborative roadmaps.
  • Oversee the transition from client briefs to execution, ensuring plans are effectively developed and implemented.
  • Develop new processes to optimize team efficiency and assist in the growth of Creative & Strategy departments through training and recruitment.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package included.
  • Eligibility for a discretionary bonus based on performance.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional development within a creative environment.
  • Collaborative team culture with strong emphasis on employee growth.
  • Chance to work on high-profile projects and brands in a dynamic industry.
Full Job Description
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.

Please note that compensation information is a good-faith assessment associated with this position only and is provided pursuant to local salary transparency laws.

Ultimately, the salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship.

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