Creative Director

Description

In the Copywriting Creative Director position, you’ll manage a team for one large client, thriving to get the most creative results for exciting unique opportunities – including digital and social activations, celebrity and influencer partnerships as well as overall Brand Voice. This is a role where you’ll partner with a big US based client, working with new tech and comms. Additionally, our ideal candidate is a fast and flexible go-getter who jumps right onto new opportunities. Our client is fresh, a little quirky and relies mostly on quick, punchy comedic work and a lot of it.

Duties And Responsibilities

• In this key role, you’ll help steer the creative ship of one of our newest and most exciting large clients
• You’ll be working with an Art Group Creative Director who has been leading the business from the beginning and is looking for a strong, exciting and challenging POV on Brand Voice
• Working as part of a dedicated and collaborative team and you’ll lead the creative process and pitches, taking on campaigns and projects big and small
• You’ll be client facing and the co-owning client relationships
• You’ll manage multiple work streams while ensuring all deliverables are at a world-class level
• Developing ideas from start to finish: briefing, concepting, presenting, feasibility, production
• Develop a holistic understanding of our clients’ partners, tech and creative in crafting flexible concepts that can be applied to a variety of partnership opportunities
• Build and maintain key relationships with internal cross-functional teams, including Producers, Creative, and Account
• Build and maintain key relationships with all clients and key stakeholders
• Serve as quality control in reviewing assets and deliverables against the original client goals
• Identify and develop the right set of assets and corresponding content to build stronger relationships between clients and their key partners.
• Explore other potential marketing activities to reach specific audiences with a focus on learning and optimizations across programs and channels
• You go above and beyond the original brief to push what’s possible on both a creative and technical level, even under tight deadlines
• Combining creative and comedic copywriting with critical thinking; your analytical approach enables you to ask the right questions and waterproof ideas from both a strategic and conceptual perspective
• You’ll help establish a consistent tone of voice that can help in brand building and future proofing this client for the next 15 years.
• You help to make sure all work is conceptually in line with campaign objectives and client expectations
  
  

Requirements

• For this lead position, we’re looking for a client facing Copywriting Creative Director with experience in advertising, joke writing and short form social content as well as a track record of leading creative teams in an advertising or production agency
• Be very comfortable with being client facing
• Celebrity, pop culture and sports knowledge is a plus
• Professional background in making content (TV, social, OLV) out of home and digital campaigns
• Guide and mentor several internal teams at the same time
• Basic productional knowledge, allowing you to understand that how we make things will get us the most out of our creative
• You’re able to present a portfolio of praise-worthy projects, showcasing your understanding of innovative tech trends, PR-able ideas, and campaigns
• You can successfully ideate and pitch your ideas in a digestible, understandable format
• As part of a constructive feedback loop, you can give and handle criticism without making or taking it personally, eagerly going the extra mile if that’s what it takes to make good great
• You are humble enough to always listen and learn from clients and teammates
• You know how to empower and lead without a show of force, giving our in-house teams a clear creative direction and ownership over their projects
• As part of a global company operating as one team across time zones, you can successfully collaborate at a distance.
• You know how to maintain a positive vibe and inspire people to get things done, wherever they are in the world
  
  

Compensation

The anticipated salary range for this position is $200k - $220k annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography.

About Media.Monks

Media.Monks is on a mission to create a new future for this industry. Our vision? Build everything with a belief that changing for good comes from changing who does the work. Yep, that means you. Welcome to the party—one global, cross-cultural collective with a passion for using our skills to create better and a better world. That’s how we’re able to connect the dots between data, content, digital media, and technology from everywhere we are—a true end-to-end model. Joining the Media.Monks collective means having the opportunity to create award-winning work with some of the most gifted, focused, joyful, talents from all over the world.

At Media.Monks, you’ll be joining a highly ambitious company on a global mission to win the decade by changing the industry for good. Partner to 8 of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, Media.Monks works with established as well as up-and-coming global, regional, DTC and B2B brands, helping them own their data and build out customer ecosystems to elicit smart, efficient, high-impact engines for growth. We deliver table stakes quickly, creating cost efficiencies from day one to push up the creative effectiveness of our work with every cycle.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.

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