Associate Creative Director - Copywriter

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$105K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 21 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Leads and develops a 4–6 person copywriter team, shaping voice and messaging across integrated campaigns while aligning creative output with business and brand objectives.

  • Owns team mentoring and career development
  • Guides cross-functional collaboration and creative strategy

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage and mentor a team of 4–6 copywriters, providing clear direction, thoughtful feedback, and ongoing development.
  • Foster a culture of creative excellence through coaching, mentorship, performance feedback, and career development.
  • Oversee and elevate copy across projects, ensuring consistency in voice, tone, and messaging quality.
  • Establish and uphold creative standards for storytelling, messaging, and copy craft across all customer touchpoints, starting with CRM.
  • Lead development of ideas that connect creative strategy with emotional storytelling, shaping brand experiences that resonate.
  • Guide messaging across integrated campaigns, ensuring clarity, cohesion, and impact.
  • Translate business objectives and customer insights into breakthrough creative platforms, campaigns, and messaging frameworks.
  • Write compelling, on-brand copy across a wide range of deliverables, from 360° campaigns to headlines, scripts, and long-form content.
  • Simplify complex messaging into clean, compelling email copy.
  • Remain hands-on in the work, contributing to concept development and execution alongside the team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Advertising, English, Journalism, or related field (or equivalent experience.)
  • 10+ years of experience in copywriting for integrated campaigns in agency or in-house settings.
  • Strong CRM/email marketing background.
  • Experience working with art directors, designers, strategists, and production partners.
  • Prior experience mentoring or managing writers preferred.
  • Portfolio demonstrating conceptual range, brand storytelling, and creative versatility across channels.
  • Strong command of tone, structure, and rhythm in both long- and short-form copy.
  • Skilled presenter who can articulate creative rationale with conviction and clarity.
  • Experience leveraging AI-powered tools to support content development, creative ideation, workflow optimization, or scaled content production.
  • Experience with Adobe and Workfront preferred.

Benefits

  • A generous benefits package that includes paid time off, health, dental, vision, and 401(k) savings plan with match.
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When you say “Yes” to Aspen Dental, you get a great career and so much more. From mentors invested in your success, to a support network that has your back, joining Aspen Dental can give you the career you never imagined and the financial well-being to live the life you always wanted. When we launched Aspen Dental, we set out to break down the barriers that made it hard for patients to keep up withtheir dental health—affordability, transparency, and access. We knew the key to better patient care started with the provider, so we changed how the dental business worked. We built new relationships, expertise, and tools to help dentists run their businesses more effectively and better care for their patients. Fast forward, and over 20 years later, we’ve launched more than 900 Aspen Dental locations—by doing so, I’m proud to say we have changed access to dental care nationwide. But there’s more work to do. Healthier, happier smiles were just our beginning.Aspen Dental now joins a new portfolio of businesses with TAG - The Aspen Group as their parent business support company for our suite of healthcare brands.ABOUT TAG - THE ASPEN GROUPTAG was built on the simple idea of bringing better healthcare to more people. TAG and the independent healthcare practices it supports operate more than 1,100 locations in 45 states through its four healthcare support companies: Aspen Dental®, ClearChoice®, WellNow® and ChapterSM. Combined, the companies serve more than 30,000 patients a day and more than 8 million patients each year. TAG is headquartered at 800 W. Fulton Market in Chicago.

Founded in 1998
Chicago, Illinois, USA
8.9K employees (57 in marketing)
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Median Career Experience
9 years
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