Art Director and Senior Copywriter (On-site, NYC)

New York City, NY (On-site)

$100K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own and shape the end-to-end creative process, turning strategic insights into distinctive brand ideas and leading cross-disciplinary teams through concept, copy, and visual direction.

  • Develop integrated concepts for campaigns and platforms
  • Collaborate with creative directors, strategists, designers, producers, and account teams to deliver on brand voice and visuals

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Concept Development
  • Develop original creative concepts across integrated campaigns, brand platforms, experiential activations, content, film, social, and digital.
  • Translate strategic insights into clear, culturally relevant creative ideas.
  • Build creative territories that can extend across multiple channels and audience touchpoints.
  • Contribute ideas throughout the pitch, development, production, and execution process.
  • Push beyond the expected to find ideas that feel distinctive to the brand and meaningful to its audience.
  • Partner closely with creative directors, strategists, designers, producers, and account teams.
  • Copywriting and Brand Voice
  • Write campaign platforms, headlines, manifestos, scripts, naming, social copy, experiential language, presentation copy, and other brand communications.
  • Develop and evolve brand voices that are clear, memorable, and adaptable across channels.

Requirements

  • 5–8 years of experience in copywriting, art direction, or a multidisciplinary creative role within an agency, studio, or similarly fast-paced environment.
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, exceptional writing, and a sophisticated visual sensibility.
  • Experience developing integrated campaigns across multiple platforms and formats.
  • Excellent command of language, including tone, structure, grammar, and narrative.
  • Strong understanding of design, typography, photography, film, and contemporary visual culture.
  • Ability to move fluidly between high-level concepts and detailed execution.
  • Experience developing presentations and presenting creative work to clients.
  • Comfortable managing multiple projects, deadlines, and rounds of feedback.
  • Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite is preferred.
  • Ability to be on-site as this role is in office.

Preferred

  • Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite is preferred
  • Experience with experiential, fashion, entertainment, hospitality, or culturally driven brands is a plus
  • Familiarity with emerging creative and AI-enabled tools is also a plus
  • Ability to be on-site as this role is in office.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • 401k with a 4% company contribution match
  • Fully covered yearly Citibike membership
  • Commuter benefits
  • Talkspace membership
  • Competitive PTO package
  • End of Year Recharge
  • Sabbatical Program
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MATTE PROJECTS

MATTE is a collective studio at the convergence of hype, storytelling, and design.We bring people together to inspire new ways of engaging to provide long term progress, and to entertain audiences around the world, while helping forward-thinking brands and institutions nimbly and truly do the same.

Founded in 2012
New York, New York, USA
105 employees (60 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$100K/yr – $120K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (16% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
2.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
13.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.7%
Direct
50.6%
Referral
4.2%
Social
10.7%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~105
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Art Director and Senior Copywriter (On-site, NYC)

MATTE PROJECTS · New York City, NY · On-site