Associate Creative Director - Copywriter

Chicago, IL (On-site)

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

Posted 6 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and grow a high‑performing copy team while shaping brand voice across integrated campaigns, translating business and customer insights into breakthrough platforms and messaging, and advancing creative standards with emerging technologies.

  • Lead team development and mentorship
  • Drive messaging coherence across campaigns
  • Evolve tone and messaging with new tools

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.
  • Demonstrated curiosity about emerging technologies and a willingness to experiment with new approaches that enhance creative effectiveness.

Preferred

  • Prior experience mentoring or managing writers preferred.
  • Experience with Adobe and Workfront preferred.
  • Advanced Figma experience required.

Benefits

  • A generous benefits package that includes paid time off, health, dental, vision, and 401(k) savings plan with match.
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TAG - The Aspen Group

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When we launched Aspen Dental, we set out to break down the barriers that made it hard for patients to keep up with their 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 25 years later, we’ve launched more than 1000 Aspen Dental locations—by doing so, we are 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.We come together to launch TAG – The Aspen Group, and we are officially expanding beyond dental to embrace a new vision. As we transform Aspen Dental, Chapter, ClearChoice, WellNow, and Lovet into one family, we’re setting out to achieve one simple goal together: to bring better healthcare to more people - because we believe in a future where health and wellness is accessible for all. While our vision now is broader, how we achieve it remains the same. The best care starts with the provider, and TAG exists to power them so they can meet patients where they are, no matter their specialty, and deliver better care. Because we know that at the end of the day, better healthcare is simple — empower the provider and their teams and the rest will follow.United as one group, we’re not just breaking down barriers, today we’re breaking through. We’re challenging the status quo. Together we can prove healthcare can be better for both providers and patients. Together we can bring better healthcare to more people.

Founded in 1998
Chicago, Illinois, USA
934 employees (112 in marketing)
43% recommend to a friend
50% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
32.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.1%
Direct
44.5%
Referral
12.1%
Social
1.1%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~934

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
83 (9% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
3.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

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