Associate Creative Director

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ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR(ART OR COPY)

If youre reading this youre probably scrolling on your phone. Perfect. Lets talk.

The Weber Shandwick Collective (TWSC) is looking for an Associate Creative Director art or copy were open who lives and breathes the internet. If you have a running theory about the next big TikTok trend can spot the next biggest creator or meme format before its viral and obsess over how to break through in the new media landscape you might just have found your calling.

This is a role for someone who wants their fingerprints on some of the biggest brands in the world and whos ready to move from executing great work to shaping it. Youll bring ideas to the table that spark joy ignite shares and earn a permanent spot in peoples lives. We want the kind of ideas that dont just ride a wave but that create one.

Lets be clear: this is not the job where youre cranking out uninspired work and the same old rinse-and-repeat ideas. This is the job and the agency where ideas meet cultural currency. Where youll help create the campaign that everyone shares before lunch. Where ideas become award-winning work thats discussed around the country.

This role is built for the Senior Art Director or Senior Copywriter ready to make the jump or the ACD who wants a bigger canvas and a shorter distance between their idea and the work going live.

So lets talk specifics.

What Youll Do

• Make the work: Youll be hands-on concepting and building attention-grabbing ideas from blank page to finished craft. Youll work alongside strategy account media relations and analytics to make sure your ideas feed algorithms and transcend platforms.
• Sharpen the idea balancing craft and strategy: Whether your instrument is a headline or a layout youll help guard the voice and visual identity of every brand you touch. Stay playful but always purposeful. Your work wont just entertain itll deliver results.
• Bring others up with you: Youll mentor junior creatives and help set the bar on craft not by managing from a distance but by being in the work next to them.
• Be the pulse of culture: Research platforms subcultures emerging media and niche communities to unearth untapped opportunities. You need to know before anyone else what Gens Alpha and Z are doing on social channels why brands are jumping all over a meme what conversations are capturing the attention of journalists (and why) and who is poised to become the next big thing in the cultural conversation. These inputs will shape the ideas you develop and bring to teams and clients.
• Help sell it: Youll present your thinking with conviction internally and increasingly in the room with clients.

What Youll Bring

• Obsessive curiosity: About trends people platforms memes and the mechanics of why certain things just work.
• A social media sixth sense: You know which platforms matter most what kind of content works where and how to surprise people in their scroll.
• Pop culture proficiency: From mainstream moments to niche internet corners you stay plugged into what everyones talking about and what theyre about to.
• Experience: 58 years in art direction design or copywriting especially if youve worked on earned digital and social-first campaigns or for culturally relevant brands.
• Craft whichever your discipline: If youre an art director youll need to work quickly and accurately across Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop InDesign Illustrator) and presentation software (PowerPoint). Bonus points for illustration After Effects photography retouching filmmaking videography editorial animation HTML. If youre a copywriter youll need range from a scroll-stopping caption to a script to a manifesto thatactually meanssomething and the instinct to know which the moment calls for.
• A sense of humor: If you cant laugh at yourself (or at least at the internet) were not the place for you.

Why Youll Love It Here (Other than the Snacks)

• Youll work with some of the best creatives in the business a team fueled by bold ideas cultural insights and enough caffeine to power a small city.
• Youll have the freedom to experiment fail forward and redefine what earned-first creativity means.
• Youll create work that matters to brands to audiences and to culture at large.
• Youll get real runway. This is a step-up role and we treat it like one with the mentorship the reps and the visibility to grow into whats next.

Final Thought (Because Were Big on Storytelling)

This job isnt just aboutbeing clever. Its about becoming the creative who reshapes how brands communicate in this endlessly scrolling algorithm-ruled world. Its about showing up every day with fresh ideas and a love for the craft. And maybe just maybe its about finally justifying all the hours you spend on TikTok.

If this sounds like you lets create something worth bookmarking.

Send us your portfolio résumé and a list of the accounts and trends youre loving right now. Because if were going to shape culture we want to know youre already in it.

Cue the end slate. Lets make some magic.

109000 - 145000

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