Senior Creative Director, Copy Brand & Integrated Campaigns

When you join Verizon

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What youll be doing...

We are looking for a visionary Senior Creative Director Copy to serve as a primary catalyst for our this role you will lead the conceptual and verbal direction for major integrated Above-The-Line (ATL) campaigns ensuring speed to market and scaled delivery without compromising brand stewardship or creative excellence. You are a master storyteller and conceptual thinker who thrives on finding big culturally resonant ideas sharpening how a brand speaks elevating in-house creative and driving agile cross-functional alignment.

AI as Your Creative Co-Pilot : We are building an AI-integrated ecosystem where technology acts as a force multiplier for human this role you will champion agentic workflows and advanced GenAI solutions across the creative development pipelinefrom brainstorming and rapid concept exploration to copy iteration and content development. By embedding AI into our daily practices you will eliminate operational friction smash production bottlenecks and give creative teams more time and freedom to focus on what matters most: original thinking and exceptional ideas.

Responsibilities include:

• Orchestrate Unified Brand Ecosystems: Lead the conceptual and verbal evolution of full-funnel integrated campaigns ensuring every touchpointfrom broadcast and OOH to social-first experiencesconnects to a singular high-impact brand idea and voice.

• Institutionalize AI-Augmented Creative Workflows: Spearhead the adoption of agentic AI within the creative pipeline to transform traditional ways of working shifting focus from manual execution toward higher-level conceptual thinking rapid exploration and creative iteration.

• Architect Scalable In-House Creative Capabilities: Move beyond agency reliance by building and refining in-house creative frameworks that deliver best-in-class ideas and executions with unprecedented speed and operational agility.

• Cultivate Cross-Functional Synergy: Act as a strategic bridge between disparate Business Units and brand teams breaking down silos to ensure conceptual visual and verbal consistency across the enterprise.

• Elevate Creative Talent & Culture: Build a future-ready team through mentorship in conceptual thinking writing storytelling and next-gen technology fostering an environment of experimentation creative ambition and intellectual curiosity.

• Drive Data-Informed Cultural Relevance: Translate consumer insights cultural signals and performance analytics into compelling ideas and narratives that resonate in culture ensuring work is not just entertaining but strategically engineered to drive measurable impact.

What were looking for...

Youll need to have:

• Bachelors degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Ten or more years of relevant experience required demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience or specialized training.

• Experience within top-tier advertising agencies or world-class in-house creative teams with a heavily decorated portfolio showcasing award-winning ATL and integrated work.

• Extensive experience leading high-budget commercial shoots lifestyle photography and working closely with top-tier directors and production houses.

• Experience navigating scaling and delivering high-stakes creative for a major Fortune 100 brand. You know how to make a massive enterprise move with the agility of a startup.

• Experience developing big integrated brand platforms and translating them across film OOH digital social and emerging channels without diluting the core idea.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Proven experience navigating scaling and delivering high-stakes creative for a major Fortune 100 brand. You know how to make a massive enterprise move with the agility of a startup.

• An exceptional command of ideas language storytelling humor dialogue scripts headlines and brand voice. You know how to find the simplest sharpest expression of an ideaand how to make every word earn its place.

• You are zero-ego highly collaborative and deeply invested in the growth of your team.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you we encourage you to apply even if you dont meet every even better qualification listed above.

Where youll be working

In this hybrid role youll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical dental vision short and long term disability basic life insurance supplemental life insurance AD&D insurance identity theft protection pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year paid parental leave adoption assistance and tuition assistance plus other incentives weve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime shift differential holiday pay allowances etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year which grows with additional service. For part-timers your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

The annual salary range for the New York location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $125500.00 - $219000.00.

Required Experience:

Director