ACD (Copy)

USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead the brand storytelling and creative direction for campaigns at dotdotdash, influencing teams and client outcomes.

  • Own brand narrative development and creative direction across campaigns.
  • Must-have: 10+ years in creative and copywriting across campaigns, digital, experiential.
  • Standout: Comfortable with AI as product and channel, including prompt engineering.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead teams in the development of brand narratives, campaign ideas, and written executions for integrated and non-traditional campaigns spanning digital, experiential, content, and innovation-driven projects.
  • Drive projects from concept through execution, translating strategy into compelling ideas and messaging while delivering strategically sound, client-ready work. Ensure the quality and impact of writing meets both agency and client standards.
  • Act as a trusted partner to clients, providing strategic and creative counsel to address brand challenges.
  • Mentor and empower copywriters across levels, fostering an environment of growth, creativity, and inclusivity.
  • Lead by example by staying on top of trends, cultural conversations, and emerging platforms and technologies, continually fueling dotdotdash’s culture of creativity and inspiration.
  • Balance hands-on creative work with leadership responsibilities, making critical decisions to move projects forward.
  • Oversee and guide projects from inception to execution, informing team casting, managing creative workflows, and ensuring deadlines and deliverables align with strategic and creative goals.
  • Be a champion of experimentation and play, in cultural expression as well as tech implementation. Bring new ideas, new stories and new technologies to the team to stay ahead of culture and write the future.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in creative and copywriting in a range of creative work such as campaigns, digital and experiential, product and editorial/content work.
  • Very strong conceptual mindset, continually generating, refining and articulating ideas that transform brands and culture.
  • An impeccable level of craft and care.
  • Expertise in brand voice, content strategy, narrative and scripting (including non-sequential) and social.
  • An award-winning portfolio of culturally relevant and insight-grounded work that includes narrative and comms, social and integrated, experiential and product writing and ideation.
  • Comfortable with AI, not just as a creative toolkit but as a product and channel. You’re a skilled prompt engineer, building agents with personality as well as function.
  • Strong presentation ability (IRL and virtual). You can convey a cohesive narrative to sell ideas.
  • Skilled in design tools, particularly Figma, and the spectrum of writing and presentation tools (including Microsoft 365, Google, Keynote).
  • A strong understanding of emerging technologies and concepts.
  • A proven track record of leading and mentoring multidisciplinary creative teams.

Preferred

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dotdotdash

dotdotdash is a global experience innovation agency, helping brands create new paradigms. Backed by Omnicom, we’re an international team of dreamers and makers crafting distinct, connected and impactful experiences across the entire brand ecosystem. Our methodology decodes signals from culture, technology, and human behavior to identify opportunities for new ideas, experiences, and growth for our partners. These insights inform our approach to designing for the senses and building connected ecosystems that unite brand, product, and content.

Founded in 2015
Los Angeles, California, USA
43 employees (20 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
223.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24%
Direct
46.4%
Referral
6.2%
Social
22.1%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~43

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (14% of company)