Associate Creative Director

*Note:*

This role may cover clients and initiatives across multiple verticals, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, SaaS/technology, not-for-profit, higher education, financial services, and more.

As an Associate Creative Director, you lead creative concept development and execution for your assigned clients, bridging senior-level craft with strategic creative leadership. You own concepts from brief through delivery, present them to clients with confidence, and shape the creative direction of your accounts — often without needing a Creative Director in the room. You partner closely with our Creative Directors while carrying real ownership of your own work, guiding copywriters, art directors, and other creatives to bring big ideas to life across campaigns, brand work, and integrated programs.

Responsibilities

Here are some, but not necessarily all, of your responsibilities

• Guide creative concept development. Act as a trusted partner to our Creative Directors and collaborate closely with copywriters and art directors to guide — and often own — creative concepts for assigned clients across campaigns, brand work, and integrated programs. Contribute to creative briefs and turn audience insights into strategically grounded, visually and verbally compelling ideas that work across every channel, bringing different creative disciplines together rather than defaulting to a single lens like art direction or copy alone.
• Direct creative execution. Direct the work of art directors, copywriters, designers, and other collaborators — including video editors and animators — on assigned projects. Give clear creative direction, review work against the approved brief and concept, and hold the line on quality for everything that ships. On your accounts, you have the authority to approve work without routing every decision through a Creative Director.
• Present and defend creative work to clients. Present creative concepts and