Associate Creative Director - Copy

$98,500 - $165,500/Yr

Publicis Groupe - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Associate Creative Director - Copy at CoLab is responsible for leading creative projects, managing copy teams, and developing strategic branding initiatives. This role combines hands-on creative work with management and leadership responsibilities, ensuring that projects are executed effectively and creatively while fostering strong client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Help develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight and creative inspiration
• Work with ACD, Art to produce standout and strategically focused concepts and campaigns
• Take on appropriate projects and own them, start to finish
• Manage and work independently, under tight deadlines, while juggling multiple projects
• Estimate copy hours
• Participate in client meetings
• Lead concept presentations
• Attend market research as appropriate
• Share responsibility with planning to shape strategic branding
• Assign creative teams best suited for each project based on ability and workload
• Manage workloads to maximize productivity of the copy team, ensuring that everyone is busy and billable
• Work closely with art, editorial and traffic departments to ensure that deadlines and budgets are met
• Provide written and face-to-face feedback for annual performance reviews, as well as ongoing feedback throughout the year (written when requested)
• Identify and Interview prospective creative candidates
• Become the creative voice for your accounts
• Develop good relationships with your clients
• Work with account management to grow our business at existing clients
• Work with creative management to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range plans for the creative group
• Lead the creative teams in development of concepts and execution of all projects
• Assure that all copywriters are trained and, where needed, mentored to maintain the standards and expectations of the agency and the client, and to meet their own career goals
• Demonstrate to clients that you understand their products and marketing challenges and are responsive to the strategic and creative needs
• Represent the agency at client meetings and social events as appropriate

Requirements

• 10+ years' agency experience
• BA degree (Advertising, Communications, Fine Arts or related field preferred)
• A proven track record of creative ability and judgment
• Successful client contact experience
• Ability to work collaboratively with account management
• Excellent presentation skills
• Successful experience in managing creative teams and multiple accounts
• Commitment to go the extra mile in time and effort to produce the very best work

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401k
• Paid time off