Associate Creative Director, Copy

When you love what you do, it won’t feel like work. Who says your calling and career have to be mutually exclusive? People who join us at PrecisionAQ are drawn to our agency because of their passion for and commitment to truly cutting-edge and incredible work – they stay for our ethos of wecentricity, the community and collaboration we foster here. Launching clients’ treatments. Changing patients’ lives. Advancing creativity and strategy, improving results and outcomes. We do our best and most innovative work when it’s fueled by purpose and comprised of the unique and varied perspectives and abilities of Effectors across the globe.

At PrecisionAQ, talent is displayed in the work, not flaunted in plumes of conceit. Here, cooperation and wecentricity are what we champion. Are you a self-effacing rock star? A sensible diva? A down-to-earth maestro? Have we got a stage for you. Our people are wildly talented, clever, and inspiring.

Who we are:

The mission of the Copy team is to be impossible to ignore through our dynamic collaboration and our aligned focus of changing the standard of care for our clients.

Who you are: 

Works with art director(s) to conceive and execute concepts. Presents work with comprehensive knowledge and defends work with logic and creativity. Establishes productive rapport and communication with clients to ensure strategic intent and narrative integrity for all deliverables. Solves day-to-day resource issues. Mentors junior staff.

Essential functions of the job include but are not limited to: 

Writing

• Leads the creative development of multiple brands, including art and copy, to ensure strategic intent for all pieces is achieved through creative.
• Works with art and copy teams as needed at job initiation, prior to internal reviews, to ensure creative development is on track and in keeping with project brief deliverables.

Concept

• Partners with a writer to develop compelling creative concepts
• Oversees development of concept once original concepts handed off to writer to execute
• Evaluates others work based on the core criteria:

1. On brand: Aligns with current brand standards
2. On strategy: Aligns with current creative brief and client-provided documentation
3. Clear, compelling, and stylish
4. Extendable and able to flow effortlessly through an entire brand

Presenting

• Presents to and communicates with clients without supervision.
• Client communications should lead to a shared understanding of changes needed and next steps for all deliverables. This includes:
  • Articulating story flow ensuring client buy-in
  • Offering strategic rationale for what was created
  • Explaining deliberate tone differentiation from competition

Team Interaction/ Management

• Responsible for informing AT/PM team when inadequate information exists for particular part of an ask
• Responsible for strong relationships with other agency team members outside of the creative group along as well as clients.
• Work with other team members to find solutions to challenging problem
• Takes time to work with his/her direct reports on both areas in need of improvement as well as teaching them to leverage inherent assets.
• Delivers constructive feedback, early/often and in-person.
• Incorporates ideas and makes revisions in response to the feedback and criticisms of clients and team members in a business-like, open-minded manner. Offers well-reasoned and thoughtful critiques of others’ work

Product and Content Knowledge

• Understands product, category and competition so that can easily jump into any strategic discussion
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the brand narrative, key messages and data along with the ability to verbally communicate it internally and to clients
• Ensures internal understanding of brand narrative as needed

Strategy

• Engages in strategic conversations with client
• Represents creative team with another senior representative of the agency (account, strategy)

Business Development

• Participates in new business development opportunities with established clients
• Promotes, when appropriate, other agency services to established clients (planning, interactive)
• Assumes a role in new business pitches

Creative and Agency Leadership

• Develops sound understanding of agency experience and full range of agency capabilities
• Is clear and consistent in direction and is a role model for the rest of his/her team in terms of work ethic and dependability
• Works cross-departmentally as needed to bring solutions to team that moves projects forward
• Reviews portfolios, interviews candidates and works toward the growth of the department and the larger organization

Qualifications: 

Minimum Required:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or above required
• Work Experience: 7+ years in advertising required; healthcare (device/pharmaceutical) focus preferred

Other Required:

• May require travel domestically and/or internationally including overnight stays

Preferred:

• Independent research
• Verbal and written communication
• Original content creation
• Content organization

Competencies:

• Strategic thinking
• Incredible prowess with verbal and written communication
• Proven ability to ingest client-provided story, then elevate and present back to them
• Proactive problem-solving capabilities
• Independently motivated 
• Works well with others
• Inspiring to other team members
• Able to jump from project to project with ease
• Maintains a positive outlook in the midst of change, tight deadlines, incomplete information 

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