Associate Creative Director, Copywriter

Ogilvy & Mather - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Senior

Atlanta, GA

101-250 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity - innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. As an Associate Creative Director, you will demonstrate exceptional conceptual thinking and the ability to develop big, breakthrough ideas across all mediums including storytelling, static, native social, content creation, digital experiences, and activations. Your mission will be to conceptualize and develop creative platforms that could travel across the funnel, creating ideas that are social at heart and best-in-class creative expressions. You will tailor your creative and content to audiences, platforms, and culturally relevant moments, confidently selling your ideas to internal teams, senior leaders, clients, and partners. This position is for a seasoned, driven, results-oriented, and highly creative individual with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, manage deadlines, and produce highly effective creative. You must drive the work forward through organization, delivering clear feedback and specific actions for all members of the team.

Responsibilities

• Create platforms for brands with extensive knowledge within ATL, social, and digital.
• Shape the innovation and experience outcome of campaigns and platforms for the accounts within brands.
• Help the overall company to become best in class for innovation and new technologies for the industry.
• Translate creative direction and copy points from creative briefs into engaging and effective concepts.
• Push the envelope creatively, bringing ideas that could create change in advertising, culture, tech, and design.
• Craft work that inspires product consumption and engagement.
• Ensure creative executions meet the highest standard of craftsmanship.
• Quickly create comp decks.
• Ensure copy tone and style are consistent with visual tone, style, and brand guidelines.
• Write, shoot, edit, and produce content across multiple channels.
• Understand business objectives and audience demographics to successfully land messaging.
• Proofread and vet copy for consistency in tone, grammar, and messaging before publication.
• Stay abreast of global cultural trends and industry updates, proactively developing timely ideas for real-time content.

Requirements

• 7+ years' experience in an agency setting.
• Background in social first or tech first agencies.
• Adaptable and able to handle changes in briefs, priorities, and edits.
• True passion for food & beverage vertical.
• Portfolio of social forward creative that impresses.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent management skills and strong leadership potential.
• Expert in MAC software and Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Ability to shoot and film scrappy content.
• Ability to lead scrappy content creation.
• Passion for learning and self-improvement.
• Proactive and a self-starter.
• Positive attitude and ability to work under tight deadlines.

Benefits

• Empowerment with tools needed to succeed.
• Autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things.
• Support from colleagues who are experts in their disciplines.
• Opportunities to do work of which you'll be proud, with teammates you'll be proud to call your own.