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. </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. </p>
<p><strong>Candidates should have:</strong></p>
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<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>
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<p><strong>We’d like to know that you can:</strong></p>
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<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 & 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>
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<p><em>The target range of base compensation for this role is </em><em>$140k - 180k. </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>
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