Associate Creative Director, Copy

Kettle; San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Austin (CA, CA, OR, TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kettle in San Francisco area is hiring an Associate Creative Director, Copy to oversee end-to-end digital website projects for a major Bay Area client. In this embedded role, you will partner with clients to shape world-class digital experiences that meet standards and push creative directions.

You’ll be hands-on as a copywriter while mentoring other writers in your pod, guiding projects from concept to delivery, and collaborating with design, motion, production, and client teams.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in digital copywriting and ability to lead projects and workstreams within a rigorous environment.
• Excellent collaboration and communication with design, motion, production, and client partners.
• Strong client management and presentation skills, including senior-level stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring writers and guiding career development.
• Bonus if you have experience with global creative tech clients.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end digital website project execution for major clients.
• Write and guide copy across digital experiences, leading a copy team.
• Partner with design, production, and client teams to push creative directions while adhering to standards.
• Present work to clients and senior leadership, ensuring alignment to the creative North Star.
• Foster mentorship and development within the copy pod.

Skills

Digital copywriting

Team leadership

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring writers

Client management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Advertising/Marketing or related field

Job description

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland OR, Austin TX

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.

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.

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.

Candidates should have:

• Significant experience in digital copywriting, and the ability to lead projects and workstreams within a rigorous environment
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners, including design, motion, production, and client partners
• Excellent client collaboration and management skills, with the ability to present work internally and to senior level clients
• Experience managing or mentoring junior to senior copywriters, including formal and informal reviews and other talent development areas
• While not required, bonus if you have experience with similar global creative tech clients

We’d like to know that you can:

• Understand and challenge your clients’ needs across the board to ensure the integrity and excellence of our work
• 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
• Explore multiple unique, on-brand creative solutions to answer the brief and encourage your team to do the same
• Guide your team to create own-able experiences for the client through simple and relevant concepts, clear writing, and on-point tone & voice
• Work with cross-functional leads to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short and long-term needs
• 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
• Manage and mentor writers of all levels, helping them chart their career path and provide opportunities to grow
• Embrace challenges, not afraid to get your hands dirty and solution with fellow teammates and clients

The target range of base compensation for this role is $140k - 180k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

At Kettle, we care deeply about diversity, acceptance, and belonging across our offices. With effort placed on to creating dialogue, community, and expression outside of binaries, we would love to know how you prefer to be addressed. This is completely optional, but if you're comfortable sharing this information, please let us know your pronouns.