Associate Creative Director / Copywriter

Luckie & Co.; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

401k with matching

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Luckie & Co. in Birmingham, AL is seeking an Associate Creative Director / Copywriter to lead and inspire teams while delivering strategically crafted, disruptive work for major clients. You’ll manage accounts, guide the strategy, and mentor junior creatives.

This role requires 7–10 years in an agency, a strong portfolio, AI fluency, and the ability to sell ideas in client meetings. Office-based three days a week in Birmingham.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years’ agency experience.
• Strong portfolio with big brand ideas across formats.
• AI fluency and strategic use for ideation and production.
• Ability to sell work with conviction in client rooms.
• Mentor’s instinct to elevate junior creatives with constructive feedback.
• Team player who enjoys collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead concept development on major campaigns.
• Produce ideas that break through and win awards.
• Serve as a senior creative voice in client relationships.
• Partner with strategy to spot and amplify creative opportunities.
• Be instrumental in new business pitches and concepts.
• Help us make fun work that real people talk about.

Skills

Agency experience

Copywriting

Leadership

AI fluency

Mentoring

Client relations

Job description

Associate Creative Director / Copywriter

Birmingham, AL location

Dream up, nurture, and sell creatively disruptive work that solves clients’ business problems.

Luckie is looking for an Associate Creative Director who has the experience to move quickly, the desire to help people believe in brands again and the hunger to do the best work of their career.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

You’re a total pro writer. You manage one or more accounts while still doing the work and helping guide the strategy. You know how to inspire teams and give good feedback. You have a client relationship which you earn by presenting the work, having a great attitude and a smart creative point of view. You really take pride in mentoring and helping the teams under you do their best.

Here’s what you’ll do at Luckie:

• Work with a great art direction partner on clients like Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and Panama City Beach as well as new business
• Lead concept development on major campaigns and produce ideas that break through and win awards.
• Serve as a senior creative voice in client relationships, becoming a trusted partner who understands their business and consistently delivers beyond expectations
• Partner with strategy team members to spot and amplify creative opportunities
• Be instrumental in new business pitches and concepts.
• Help us make fun work that real people talk about

And a few other must-haves:

• 7-10 years’ agency experience
• A great site that makes us jealous, full of big brand ideas, scrappy social, long-form, short-form and experiential.
• AI-fluency. You’re already using it strategically to accelerate ideation, production, and creative possibility.
• The ability to sell work with conviction in the room and keep your cool when client feedback comes in.
• A mentor's instinct to make people around you better by giving clear, kind, useful feedback to junior creatives and partner closely with your AD.
• A fun person who loves being part of a team

At Luckie, we believe our best work happens together. Employees are required and expected to work from the office three days per week. We are ideally seeking to staff this role in our Birmingham, AL office. Our expectation is the same no matter where the work is done - employees must be flexible to meet the needs of Luckie and clients, which may include attendance in an office.

Luckie benefits include:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance, Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k with matching, FSAs, HSAs
• Flexible paid time off, plus major holidays, one floating holiday and volunteer time
• Paid parental leave
• And so much more!

Luckie and Company is an equal opportunity company and complies with applicable federal, state and local employment laws.