Associate Creative Director, Copywriter

Title: Associate Creative Director, Copy Location: Atlanta Department: Creative Reports to: Creative Director Purpose You will be responsible for conceptualizing, creating, and producing compelling creative ideas that resonate with target audiences and align with our clients' brand identities. Responsibilities Able to function as a leader in the conception, design, and creation of content for television, print, websites, and multimedia creative on projects assigned by the Creative Director. Ability to ensure the quality, craft, and implementation of all work done on a given project. Create exceptional advertising concepts and take responsibility for all copy involved. Demonstrates the ability to share a compelling POV and sell work to internal stakeholders and external clients. Understands the Client’s business, brand, products, and their customers. Must be a player/coach, still creating much of their own work while delegating and mentoring those around them to produce attention-getting content. Is responsible for presenting to clients when needed and structuring selling arguments for work. Strategize with the brand team to anticipate problems, analyze solutions, identify alternatives, and suggest recommendations. Partners with Creative Director and Strategy to inform creative strategies that will lead to great work. Collaborates with other departments, account management, strategy and clients to ensure extraordinary work. Remains current with and ahead of creative trends in the industry & culture. Competencies Creative Stewardship. A high standard of creative work that is award-winning, applauded by the industry and appreciated by existing clients and new business prospects. Relationship Management. A professional role model with positive influence who motivates colleagues. Ability to collaborate with all key stakeholders across all offices. Cultural Leader. Help activate and foster the Iris culture and serve as an Iris Brand Ambassador to the advertising industry. Professional Skills & Knowledge Demonstrate excellent communication, selling, and presentation skills, as well as strong relationship and customer service skills. Strong multidisciplinary creative portfolio demonstrating proficiency in content creation, script writing, manifestos Strong understanding of various social media platforms, their unique audiences, and content requirements. Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Background in Copywriting Experience The ideal candidate has 6-10 years of experience in advertising; exceptions are made based on the level of work pertaining to the creative product and creative management abilities. Presentation of a strong personal creative portfolio. Training Photography, journalism, videography, comedic writing or other related fields are a plus. About Iris Participate or perish. It’s not just our rallying cry – it’s a creative impe