Creative Director Copy, Brand and Social

Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)

$132K/yr – $156K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own the U.S. Bank brand voice and lead cross-channel creative campaigns, from concept to execution across digital, social, and video.

  • Oversee brand voice evolution and executive-facing storytelling.
  • Mentor writers and partner with creators to deliver platform-native content.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the lead copywriter and brand voice steward for U.S. Bank, ensuring consistency, quality, and clarity across customer touchpoints.
  • Evolve the brand voice to feel modern, sophisticated, culturally connected, and unmistakably U.S. Bank while maintaining trust and credibility.
  • Translate complex business strategies into clear, motivating, and on-brand messaging.
  • Lead the development of creative concepts, campaign narratives, messaging platforms, and integrated campaign ideas across digital, social, video, experiential, and traditional media.
  • Lead the development of social-first creative, including concepts, scripts, campaigns, and content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms.
  • Partner with creators, designers, editors, and social teams to produce platform-native content that is culturally relevant, on-brand, and engaging.
  • Present creative concepts and strategic rationale with confidence and clarity to executive leadership, including senior and C-suite stakeholders.
  • Manage, mentor, and develop writers, fostering a culture of curiosity, craft, creativity, accountability, and excellence.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline creative processes and reduce manual effort while maintaining high standards of creative excellence.
  • Foster a culture of experimentation that balances efficiency gains with strong editorial judgment, strategic thinking, and brand stewardship.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
  • Typically, eight or more years of content strategy or related experience

Preferred

  • Exceptional writing, editing, concepting, and storytelling skills with a strong portfolio of integrated campaign work.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop, evolve, and maintain a distinctive brand voice across channels.
  • Experience leading creative development across integrated campaigns, social media, digital marketing, advertising, and content ecosystems.
  • Demonstrated experience developing creative work for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube
  • Strong understanding of social-first storytelling, creator-led content, and platform-native content development.
  • Experience presenting and selling creative work to senior executives, business stakeholders, and cross-functional partners.
  • Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire creative talent.
  • Ability to translate complex or regulated subject matter into clear, human, motivating copy.
  • Portfolio must include examples of social content, integrated campaigns, and brand storytelling.
  • Experience in financial services, fintech, or another highly regulated industry.

Benefits

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
  • Basic term and optional term life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave
  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
  • Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
  • Adoption assistance
  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
  • Review our full benefits available by employment status here .
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U.S. Bank

3.5 Glassdoor

At U.S. Bank, we help millions of clients achieve their goals with a balance of best-in-class technology and human expertise tailored to individual needs. As the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, we’ve built a reputation for strength and stability across a diversified mix of businesses, including commercial and institutional banking, business banking, payments, wealth management and consumer banking. We’ve been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute and the most admired superregional bank by Fortune. In addition to thousands of branches serving consumers, U.S. Bank offers a complete suite of products, services and strategic partnerships for business. Within our Wealth, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking division, we serve more than half a million clients across the country and around the world, ranging from wealthy individuals and families to the largest corporations, including 90% of Fortune 1000 companies.We’re also consistently recognized as a great place to work. We’re shaping our company culture with intention, focused on creating a workplace where it’s safe to speak up, share ideas and try new things. We’re proud to be recognized as a “Best for Vets” employer by the Military Times and included on Fair360’s (formerly DiversityInc.) list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity. U.S. Bank, NA. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.

Founded in 1968
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
81K employees (1,757 in marketing)
59% recommend to a friend
65% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$132K/yr – $156K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$991M
Last Raise
$55M
Post IPO Debt, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $55M
  • Aug 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $936M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
27.4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.7M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
20.5%
Direct
74.2%
Referral
4%
Social
0.3%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~80.8K

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Creative Director Copy, Brand and Social

U.S. Bank · Minneapolis, MN · Hybrid