Associate Creative Director

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Associate Creative Director

Golin Ketchum is looking for an Associate Creative Director whos just as obsessed with a scroll-stopping Instagram Reel as they are with an idea built to break the internet.

This role has two jobs not one. Some days youre deep in owned social building out share-worthycontent across a large portfolio of fun brands writing captions with actual voice and turning a brands day-to-day social presence into something people chooseto follow. Other days youre dreaming up the big loud culture-jacking tentpole moment that gets Buzzfeed Complex and Hypebeast calling us instead of the other way around.

Youre not choosing between always-on and big swing. Youre doing both for some of the most beloved brands on shelf.

About Golin Ketchum

Golin Ketchum is the most awarded public relations agency of the decade. We create change that matters for our clients and our people. The kind of change that earns attention and shapes culture to build business.

Formed in 2026 from the merger of two iconic PR agencies Golin Ketchum combines fearless creative and strategic excellence fueled by Omnicoms industry-leading data and AI solutions to uncover powerful insights and execute work that builds and protects the worlds greatest companies.

With specialized expertise across consumer and brands corporate affairs healthcare technology and food agriculture and nutrition we deliver integrated high-impact communications services at scale.

At Golin Ketchum culture matters. We are fiercely ambitious yet fundamentally kind and collaborate obsessively with the best clients in the world.

Want to create change that matters with us Here are the details:

What Youll Do:

• Build always-on social content and campaigns that make the brands social channels feel alive not just a media plan with captions bolted on
• Develop the bigger earned-first ideas tentpole moments real-time opportunities stunts designed to travel beyond the brands own channels
• Partner with the PR media team to turn your ideas into actual headlines not just decks
• Work channel-agnostic but know social platform craft cold what a TikTok needs is not what a press release needs and you should never confuse the two
• Communicate your ideas to the clients with clarity strategic insight and passion
• Hunt for and share out with the rest of the team whats breaking in culture BEFORE it breaks in culture
• Build a portfolio that proves you can do both the quiet consistent work and the loud ownable swing
• Proactive thinking. Youre always bringing ideas because you know not every opportunity lives within the brief

Youll know youre doing it right when the brands Instagram comments are as good as the news coverage. Our approach has helped us win Cannes Lions and back-to-back PRWEEK Global Agency of the Year for ideas built for the feed and ideas built for the front page.

What You Have:

• 5-8 years experience in advertising social or digital media. Knowledge of earned media is a plus.
• 109% internet fluency. You know the ins and outs of social media speak the language of the internet have gone down YouTube rabbit holes for multiple hours in a row have uploaded multiple TikTok videos and have explored without fear the inner depths of Reddit.
• Art Director: Youre a wizard in Photoshop InDesign and Illustrator and have an understanding of visual storytelling.
• Writer: Youre a wizard at using words to communicate emotion and inciting people to hit that share button.
• Youre a genuinely nice person who brings energy every single day to your work and to the agency.

Golin Ketchum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Golin Ketchum recruits qualified applicants without regard to race color religion gender age ethnic or national origin protected veteran status physical or mental disability sexual orientation gender identity marital status or citizenship status.

130k-165k

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