Associate Creative Director, Copywriter

Title: Associate Creative Director, Copy
Location: Atlanta
Department: Creative
Reports to: Creative Director

Purpose

You will be responsible for conceptualizing, creating, and producing compelling creative ideas that resonate with target audiences and align with our clients' brand identities.

Responsibilities

• Able to function as a leader in the conception, design, and creation of content for television, print, websites, and multimedia creative on projects assigned by the Creative Director.
• Ability to ensure the quality, craft, and implementation of all work done on a given project.
• Create exceptional advertising concepts and take responsibility for all copy involved.
• Demonstrates the ability to share a compelling POV and sell work to internal stakeholders and external clients.
• Understands the Client’s business, brand, products, and their customers.
• Must be a player/coach, still creating much of their own work while delegating and mentoring those around them to produce attention-getting content.
• Is responsible for presenting to clients when needed and structuring selling arguments for work.
• Strategize with the brand team to anticipate problems, analyze solutions, identify alternatives, and suggest recommendations. 
• Partners with Creative Director and Strategy to inform creative strategies that will lead to great work.
• Collaborates with other departments, account management, strategy and clients to ensure extraordinary work.
• Remains current with and ahead of creative trends in the industry & culture. 

Competencies

Creative Stewardship. A high standard of creative work that is award-winning, applauded by the industry and appreciated by existing clients and new business prospects.

Relationship Management. A professional role model with positive influence who motivates colleagues. Ability to collaborate with all key stakeholders across all offices.

Cultural Leader. Help activate and foster the Iris culture and serve as an Iris Brand Ambassador to the advertising industry.

Professional Skills & Knowledge

• Demonstrate excellent communication, selling, and presentation skills, as well as strong relationship and customer service skills.
• Strong multidisciplinary creative portfolio demonstrating proficiency in content creation, script writing, manifestos
• Strong understanding of various social media platforms, their unique audiences, and content requirements.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• Background in Copywriting

Experience

The ideal candidate has 6-10 years of experience in advertising; exceptions are made based on the level of work pertaining to the creative product and creative management abilities. Presentation of a strong personal creative portfolio.

Training

Photography, journalism, videography, comedic writing or other related fields are a plus.

About Iris

Participate or perish. It’s not just our rallying cry – it’s a creative imperative. Iris is the global creative micro-network built for brands that refuse to blend in. With 650 people across 11 offices, we help clients like Samsung, adidas, Bentley, California Pizza Kitchen, Beiersdorf and Samsonite show up in culture with work that stands apart. Powered by Participation, and brought to life across paid, earned and owned media, our agency model is big enough to be dangerous, small enough to stay agile. Founded outside the ad establishment in 1999, Iris has always been defined by its outsider mindset – one that still drives our mission today.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and recruit on talent alone, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, education, class, sexual orientation or disability. We champion diversity and believe it not only benefits, but enhances our creativity, our company and the wider society at large.

Salary Range

Our estimated range for this role is $130-$150k

Compensation packages are based on the skill level and experience each candidate brings to their role. There may also be a more senior or junior position available that could be a better fit with your expertise. Each level has its own compensation range.

We pride ourselves on competitive salaries, and ensuring pay equity exists across our organization. We benchmark each position against existing employee competencies and 4As compensation data which includes geographic and agency size benchmarks. We also meet with department leaders 3x/year to ensure we are supporting employees in living into their full potential.  Our promotions are not limited to a specific time per year. Promotions are tied to performance.  

Right To Work In The US

You must be authorized to work in the US for any employer.  At this time, we are not sponsoring or providing assistance with obtaining work authorization.

This position is located in Atlanta, GA. We are in the office Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday on a hybrid schedule. 

We look forward to meeting you!