Associate Creative Director, Copy

<p>Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.&nbsp;</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Candidates should have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Significant experience in digital copywriting, and the ability to lead projects and workstreams within a rigorous environment</li> <li>Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, motion, production, and client partners</li> <li>Excellent client collaboration and management skills, with the ability to present work internally and to senior level clients</li> <li>Experience managing or mentoring junior to senior copywriters, including formal and informal reviews and other talent development areas</li> <li>While not required, bonus if you have experience with similar global creative tech clients</li> </ul> <p><strong>We’d like to know that you can:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Understand and challenge your clients’ needs across the board to ensure the integrity and excellence of our work</li> <li>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</li> <li>Explore multiple unique, on-brand creative solutions to answer the brief and encourage your team to do the same</li> <li>Guide your team to create own-able experiences for the client through simple and relevant concepts, clear writing, and on-point tone &amp; voice</li> <li>Work with cross-functional leads to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short and long-term needs</li> <li>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</li> <li>Manage and mentor writers of all levels, helping them chart their career path and provide opportunities to grow</li> <li>Embrace challenges, not afraid to get your hands dirty and solution with fellow teammates and clients</li> </ul> <p><em>The target range of base compensation for this role is </em><em>$140k - 180k.&nbsp;</em><em>Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.</em></p> <p><br><br></p>