Associate Creative Director

Golin; New York (NY); On-site; USD 94,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Golin is seeking an Associate Creative Director to generate innovative, culturally impactful ideas that resonate worldwide. This role involves collaborating with various teams to create content that not only captures attention but also sets trends, all while enjoying a supportive benefits program that values employee well-being.

Benefits

Flexible time off

Enhanced family care

Generous health and wellness benefits

Workplace hybrid flexibility

Monthly stipend for gym or hobbies

Qualifications

• 5-8 years’ experience in advertising, social, or digital media.
• Expertise in internet trends and social media.
• Strong writing skills to evoke emotion.

Responsibilities

• Bring the freshest, most inspired ideas to solve client problems.
• Collaborate with various teams to ensure strategic relevance.
• Use creative skills to bring ideas to life.

Skills

Internet fluency

Creative thinking

Communication

Job description

Golin New York is looking for an Associate Creative Director.

This team has a simple job description: Come up with ideas that break the internet. Yes, really, break it. With fun ideas. Provocative ideas. Totally off the wall ideas. Ideas that make every Creative Director at every other agency in the world want to recruit you away from us.

But you’re not going to leave because you know as an Associate Creative Director, you’ll be working on everything from Super Bowl briefs to trying to create the next TikTok challenge to doing something awesome inside of Animal Crossing. Building your books with diverse, channel agnostic work for some of the coolest, biggest brands on the planet.

Not only that, you’ll know for a fact that your ideas are going to earn national attention from Buzzfeed, Complex, Hypebeast, because you’ll have the power of the entire Golin PR media team pitching to make your ideas famous.

As a creative, you’re probably wondering if you’ll be making TV ads. Honestly, you won’t. You’ll be making culture instead. Don’t get us wrong, making ads are awesome but moving culture and making headlines is much better. In fact, our approach has helped us win both Cannes Lions and back-to-back PRWEEK Global Agency of the Year.

ABOUT GOLIN

Golin is a global, award-winning public relations agency that helps company create change that matters. Together, we discover powerful human truths that bind us, create with bravery, and collaborate inclusively and obsessively. Golin's 1700 global employees operate across 50+ offices worldwide, allowing us to provide our clients with comprehensive solutions for multi-market, regional and global communications programs.

Every agency is talking about AI. At Golin, we are using AI to rewrite the rules of PR. We’re even promising to become the first fully AI-integrated agency by 2026. We are committed to upskilling our workforce, democratizing access to tools, and integrating AI into our daily work to maximize the value we deliver to our clients.

We're especially committed to going all in for our people. We challenge our employees to be courageously happy and have empowered them to do so by offering our LifeTime benefits program. LifeTime offers flexible time off, enhanced family care, generous health and wellness benefits, workplace hybrid flexibility, and a monthly LifeTime stipend for the gym or hobbies.

Our expertise ranges from brand-building and cutting-edge digital content to corporate reputation, healthcare advocacy and measurement. Golin aligns earned-first, data-driven creative with the customer journey through our collaborative G4 Model to deliver maximum impact for clients. Our roster includes many of the largest CPG, retail, food, healthcare technology and consumer service companies in the world.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Make it up. Then make it happen.

Job #1 is to bring the freshest, most inspired, most unexpected thinking that solves a client’s problem. Job #2 is to use every creative skill you have to bring your ideas to life. From comps, to stick figure animations, to memes, puppet shows…whatever your idea takes to make it absolutely impossible for a client not to buy it.

• Collaborate with your creative director, strategist, media, digital and account teams to ensure your work is always relevant, strategically sound and headline worthy.
• Communicate your ideas to the clients with clarity, strategic insight and passion.
• Hunt for and share out with the rest of the team what’s breaking in culture BEFORE it breaks in culture.
• Proactive thinking. You’re always bringing ideas because you know not every opportunity lives within the brief.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5-8 years’ experience in advertising, social, or digital media. Knowledge of earned media is a plus.
• 100% internet fluency. You know the ins and outs of social media, speak the language of the internet, have gone down YouTube rabbit holes for multiple hours in a row, have uploaded multiple TikTok videos and have explored without fear the inner depths of Reddit.
• Writer: You’re a wizard at using words to communicate emotion and inciting people to hit that share button.
• You’re a genuinely nice person who brings energy every single day to your work and the agency.

Salary range: $94,000 - 165,000

Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon, among other factors: a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations.

Golin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.