Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.
We are hiring an Associate Creative Director, Copy, to oversee end-to-end digital website project execution for one of our largest clients, a Bay Area based creative tech company. In this embedded role, you’ll partner directly with our clients to create world-class digital experiences that both adhere to established standards and push the creative in new directions. You’ll be hands-on in the work as an experienced copywriter, while guiding other writers in your pod as a project lead. If the term conceptual digital creative resonates with you, then this role may be a fit.
These roles require team members to be onsite 5 days per week, for 2-3 months at a time, for specific projects. At other times during the year, the team is remote.
Candidates should have:
- Significant experience in digital copywriting, and the ability to lead projects and workstreams within a rigorous environment
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, motion, production, and client partners
- Excellent client collaboration and management skills, with the ability to present work internally and to senior level clients
- Experience managing or mentoring junior to senior copywriters, including formal and informal reviews and other talent development areas
- While not required, bonus if you have experience with similar global creative tech clients
We’d like to know that you can:
- Understand and challenge your clients’ needs across the board to ensure the integrity and excellence of our work
- Be the person the client looks up to be inspired and to get their creative questions asked. Help them understand the team’s perspective and align on the creative North Star
- Explore multiple unique, on-brand creative solutions to answer the brief and encourage your team to do the same
- Guide your team to create own-able experiences for the client through simple and relevant concepts, clear writing, and on-point tone & voice
- Work with cross-functional leads to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short and long-term needs
- Consistently demonstrate an expertise in the competitive landscape from a creative standpoint, and stay abreast of design culture and best-in-class creative across channels
- Manage and mentor writers of all levels, helping them chart their career path and provide opportunities to grow
- Embrace challenges, not afraid to get your hands dirty and solution with fellow teammates and clients
The target range of base compensation for this role is $140k - 180k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.