Associate Creative Director, Copywriter (ACD)

What We Believe

Carmichael Lynch is an integrated creative agency built on the belief that the strongest brands are brave enough to define their true purpose. Since 1962 weve helped clients uncover their singular brand truth and turn it into work that cant be ignored. Its the hard work ofsimpleideas strengthenedthroughintegration where disciplines converge and diverge seamlessly around one compelling truthto cut through clutter and drive real business impact.

Our Hiring Philosophy

Carmichael Lynch is committed to creating a diverse safe and welcoming workplace with opportunity for all. We strive for inclusion equity and diversity in both our words and actions. BIPOC women marginalized communities LGBTQIA veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. To learn more please visit: In It for You*

• Professional Development (performance reviews 2x annually training opportunities related to your field of development one-on-ones with managers etc.)
• We offer competitive equitable salaries (reviewed annually to ensure equity and competitiveness)
• A strong vibrant continually-evolving Diversity Equity and Inclusion belief (in thought and action) encompassing our agency and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Recognizing the voices that need to be heard.
• Competitive company and employee sponsored benefits including: Medical Dental Vision 401k PTO (vacation/sick time) allowance maternity leave parental leavepaid company holidays Family Building Benefit (adoption surrogacy benefit) and much more.

*Please note that these benefits only apply to full time roles

Role:

Carmichael Lynch is hiring an associate creative director/copywriter (ACD/CW) to work across a multitude of client accounts. Our ACDs are the heart and soul of the shop. They know the business have proven experience building client relationships and are trusted to lead projects and run productions independently. They adapt and deliver at the highest level on any brief thrown their way. They have excellent craft translate feedback with ease and manage their time well. They examine briefs carefully know when (and how) to push and show up for their creative directors integrated teams and the creatives they oversee on any given project.

Our next ACD/CW knows they are a reliable pinch-hitter who can manage several core client assignments while contributing to ad hoc briefs and new business opportunities. They are all in on delivering career-defining creative work and are excited to bring their perspective to Carmichael Lynchs company culture.

Craft Skills:

• Shape and execute strategic award-winning creative that helps our clientspush their businesses forward.
• Seamlessly jump on otheraccounts as a pinch-hitter creative to moveconceptual workforward.
• Developcreative management craftbydeliveringfeedback motivating teaching and knowing when to jump in.
• Setthe bar for creative craft and excellence.
• Know their clients their briefs their tone and their business.

People Skills:

• Buildclient relationships and trust.
• Deliver presentationswith the ability to speak to full-funnel campaign strategy.
• Leadcross-departmental integration on projects.
• Demonstrate strongtime management skillsbycarvingout time forteam projects andbalancingmeetingsreviews andfeedback when leading projects.
• Manageupby havingthe trust of CDsECDs andCCO to reliably blockandtackle internal and client needs across accounts.
• Serve asa go-toresource forjunior creatives.

Experience:

• Must have a minimum of 6 years of experience in a traditional advertising agency copywriter position. (If your current job title is designer be sure to have ample copywriting/concepting examples in your portfolio. This is not a design-only job.)
• Demonstrate provenrecord of concepting selling and shipping full-funnel creative work inclusive of TV online video social influencer digital and experiential activations.
• Managerial/supervisoryexperience welcomed.
• Awardedandcreditedwork expected.
• Work independently and with a creative partner required.

The salary range for this position is listed below. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on a variety of factors including but not limited to budget relevant experience qualifications and tenure in similar roles. Consideration may also be given to internal salary data for current or former employees in the same or similar positions.

Salary Range: $120000 - 145000 annually