Associate Creative Director, Writer

Walz Tetrick Advertising; Mission (KS); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Health insurance

Paid time off

Flexible work hours

Job summary

Walz Tetrick Advertising in Mission, KS, is seeking an Associate Creative Director, Writer who blends thinking, storytelling and leadership to elevate healthcare campaigns and broader work. You’ll concept, write, present and shape ideas from brief through execution while mentoring others and advancing the work across accounts.

The role requires strong writing craft, objective judgment, and the ability to move between big ideas and crafted executions.

Qualifications

• 7 to 10+ years of agency or comparable creative experience with a portfolio showing strong conceptual thinking and multi-channel work.
• Ability to move between big campaign ideas and highly crafted executions with sound judgment.
• Strong storytelling and editing instincts to turn complex information into clear, engaging output.

Responsibilities

• Lead concept development across integrated campaigns, brand platforms and ongoing client work.
• Partner with art directors, designers and production to turn business challenges into strong creative ideas.
• Write and shape work across video, digital, social, experiential, web and print.
• Make complicated subjects simple, human and emotionally relevant while preserving strategy.
• Lead creative presentations and sell the work with confidence, tying back to audience and business goals.
• Guide work through revisions and production while protecting the idea’s strength.
• Mentor other creatives and contribute to pitches and new opportunities.
• Stay curious about culture, technology and new ways brands connect with people.

Skills

Agency experience

Storytelling

Leadership

Writing craft

Presentation skills

Brand strategy

Job description

We’re looking for an Associate Creative Director, Writer who is equal parts thinker, storyteller and creative leader.

This person will play an important role across our growing healthcare portfolio while also contributing to larger campaigns, new business and creative opportunities across the agency.

This is a hands on role for someone who still loves making the work. You’ll concept, write, present and help shape ideas from brief through execution while raising the quality of the work and the people around you.

We’re looking for strong creative instincts, exceptional writing craft and the judgment to know when an idea needs to be pushed further.

What You'll Do

• Lead concept development across integrated campaigns, brand platforms and ongoing client work.
• Partner with art directors, designers and other agency partners to turn business challenges into strong creative ideas.
• Write and shape work across video, digital, social, experiential, web and print, from campaign platforms and messaging systems to headlines, scripts and brand voice.
• Make complicated subjects simple, human and emotionally relevant without losing strategic intent.
• Bring a strong point of view to the brief, identify opportunities and help push ideas beyond the expected.
• Lead creative presentations and sell in the work with confidence, connecting the idea back to the strategy, audience and business opportunity.
• Guide work through revisions and production while protecting the strength of the idea.
• Mentor other creatives through thoughtful feedback and contribute to pitches, proactive opportunities and work beyond your primary accounts.
• Stay curious about culture, technology and new ways brands can connect with people.

What We're Looking For

• 7 to 10+ years of agency or comparable creative experience with a portfolio that shows strong conceptual thinking, exceptional writing craft and work across multiple channels.
• The ability to move between big campaign ideas and highly crafted executions with strong creative judgment throughout.
• Strong storytelling and editing instincts with the ability to turn complex information into clear, engaging creative.
• Confidence presenting and defending creative thinking with internal teams and clients.
• Experience partnering closely with art directors, designers and production resources from concept through execution, with a collaborative mindset and a genuine interest in making the work and the people around you better.
• Experience with health systems, pharmaceutical brands, insurance or medical and legal review is a plus, but it is not required. More important is your ability to understand complex subject matter, find the human idea inside it and create work that makes people want to care.

What Success Looks Like

• Becoming a trusted creative lead across key assignments and accounts.
• Raising the quality of the work you touch.
• Building strong partnerships throughout the agency and earning client confidence.

Why This Role Matters

We want someone who can help raise the standard of the work, strengthen the people around them and contribute to a growing creative department.

If you’re an ambitious creative who wants to make great work, have a real voice in the process and the opportunity to help build something, we’d like to meet you.

About Walz Tetrick Advertising

Walz Tetrick is a full-service marketing, creative and media agency in Kansas City. The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce named Walz Tetrick one of its Top 10 Small Businesses, honoring our resilience, innovation and values. Though we’ve been around since 1967, we approach every opportunity with the same zeal we did when we were just getting started. We look for associates, partners and clients who share that enthusiasm and appreciate our all-in approach to brand activation. With each day, we harness more tools and information to illuminate our way.

Walz Tetrick offers an office culture like no other. CEO Charlie Tetrick values his employees and creates a uniquely positive and supportive culture. We work and play as a family. Our current work hours are “in office” Monday through Thursday with an option to “work from anywhere” on Friday.

We’re proud of our strong benefits package that includes a 401(k) with an employer match, long-term disability and dental insurance. We offer excellent health insurance, and the agency pays 90 percent of the employees’ premiums with an option to add a spouse and family. We have a generous paid time off policy that includes days to volunteer at a charity of your choice.

If you’re passionate, strategic, collaborative and kind, with a dose of scrappy thrown in, we want to meet you.