Associate Creative Director, Copy

Summary

Join PrecisionAQ's Copy team and make an impact! This role requires a seasoned creative professional with 7+ years of advertising experience, preferably in healthcare. You will lead creative development for multiple brands, collaborating with art directors and writers to ensure strategic alignment. Responsibilities include concept development, client presentations, team management, and strategic discussions. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills. PrecisionAQ offers a competitive salary, bonus potential, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above required
• 7+ years in advertising required
• May require travel domestically and/or internationally including overnight stays

Responsibilities

• Works with art director(s) to conceive and execute concepts
• Presents work with comprehensive knowledge and defends work with logic and creativity
• Establishes productive rapport and communication with clients to ensure strategic intent and narrative integrity for all deliverables
• Solves day-to-day resource issues
• Mentors junior staff
• Leads the creative development of multiple brands, including art and copy, to ensure strategic intent for all pieces is achieved through creative
• Works with art and copy teams as needed at job initiation, prior to internal reviews, to ensure creative development is on track and in keeping with project brief deliverables
• Partners with a writer to develop compelling creative concepts
• Oversees development of concept once original concepts handed off to writer to execute
• Evaluates others work based on the core criteria: On brand: Aligns with current brand standards, On strategy: Aligns with current creative brief and client-provided documentation, Clear, compelling, and stylish, Extendable and able to flow effortlessly through an entire brand
• Presents to and communicates with clients without supervision
• Client communications should lead to a shared understanding of changes needed and next steps for all deliverables. This includes: Articulating story flow ensuring client buy-in, Offering strategic rationale for what was created, Explaining deliberate tone differentiation from competition
• Responsible for informing AT/PM team when inadequate information exists for particular part of an ask
• Responsible for strong relationships with other agency team members outside of the creative group along as well as clients
• Work with other team members to find solutions to challenging problem
• Takes time to work with his/her direct reports on both areas in need of improvement as well as teaching them to leverage inherent assets
• Delivers constructive feedback, early/often and in-person
• Incorporates ideas and makes revisions in response to the feedback and criticisms of clients and team members in a business-like, open-minded manner. Offers well-reasoned and thoughtful critiques of others’ work
• Understands product, category and competition so that can easily jump into any strategic discussion
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the brand narrative, key messages and data along with the ability to verbally communicate it internally and to clients
• Ensures internal understanding of brand narrative as needed
• Engages in strategic conversations with client
• Represents creative team with another senior representative of the agency (account, strategy)
• Participates in new business development opportunities with established clients
• Promotes, when appropriate, other agency services to established clients (planning, interactive)
• Assumes a role in new business pitches
• Develops sound understanding of agency experience and full range of agency capabilities
• Is clear and consistent in direction and is a role model for the rest of his/her team in terms of work ethic and dependability
• Works cross-departmentally as needed to bring solutions to team that moves projects forward
• Reviews portfolios, interviews candidates and works toward the growth of the department and the larger organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Independent research
• Verbal and written communication
• Original content creation
• Content organization
• Healthcare (device/pharmaceutical) focus

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus
• Health insurance
• Retirement savings benefits
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Parental leave
• Paid time off for sick leave and vacation