Associate Creative Director, Copywriter

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$125K/yr – $135K/yrMid Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive integrated, high-signal copy across campaigns with executive-aligned storytelling and a strong brand voice.

  • Own end-to-end campaign copy for multi-channel work from concept through delivery.
  • Must-have: 10+ years of agency hit-rate copywriting and a proven brand voice track record.
  • Standout: Leadership of writers and ability to translate strategy into external narratives at the C-suite level.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the Associate Creative Director (Design) to co-lead integrated campaign concepting across digital, video, social, and multi-channel platforms
  • Collaborate with design leadership to ensure ideas are holistically developed — visually and verbally aligned, strategically grounded
  • Write high-impact headlines, campaign copy, scripts, and brand messaging that are clear, distinctive, and effective
  • Translate business and marketing objectives into compelling creative ideas
  • Evolve and steward brand voice across all touchpoints
  • Uphold exceptional standards of craft, clarity, and effectiveness
  • Lead the evolution of Resource Innovations' corporate voice across external communications
  • Elevate executive messaging, ensuring clarity, credibility, and strategic narrative alignment
  • Support thought leadership, press materials, internal communications, and speaking engagements
  • Ensure consistency between campaign-level messaging and broader corporate positioning

Requirements

  • 10+ years of copywriting experience, including significant agency experience
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating campaign thinking, compelling ad copy, and short-form video scripts
  • Proven ability to craft, evolve, and steward brand voice
  • Experience writing for both consumer-facing campaigns and corporate communications
  • Ability to simplify complex subject matter into persuasive messaging
  • Experience partnering with C-suite leaders and translating strategy into compelling external narratives
  • Experience managing and developing writers or creative team members
  • Strong coaching, feedback, and performance management skills
  • Confidence presenting to senior stakeholders
  • Collaborative, humble approach to creative leadership

Preferred

  • Experience partnering with C-suite leaders and translating strategy into compelling external narratives
  • Collaborative, humble approach to creative leadership
  • Calm under pressure with strong organizational discipline

Benefits

  • Resource Innovations is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, marital status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. In addition to federal law requirements, Resource Innovations complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company does work.
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Resource Innovations

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Resource Innovations (RI) is an energy transformation firm. Women-led, purpose built and focused on impact, we’re constantly expanding our portfolio of solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex, connected challenges. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we’re accelerating the transition to clean energy, serving as a trusted partner to utilities and governments in energy efficiency and decarbonization planning. Since our inception in 2016, Resource Innovations has been included in the Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies three times.

Founded in 2016
Half Moon Bay, California, USA
1K employees (39 in marketing)
53% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
17.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$25.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.2%
Direct
53.2%
Referral
3.8%
Social
1.3%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
32 (3% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2