Associate Creative Director

Alameda, CA (On-site)

$131K/yr – $261K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own the creative strategy and lead copy and concepting across brand, campaigns, and channels, while mentoring the team and ensuring a cohesive, human brand voice.

  • Lead creative strategy and translate briefs into compelling platforms
  • Collaborate across brand, product, and growth for a cohesive voice
  • Guide external partners and develop a high-performing creative team

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the creative strategy across brand and campaign initiatives, ensuring all work is rooted in a clear point of view and a deep understanding of the Lingo audience
  • Lead creative concepting sessions, bringing a writer's instinct for insight, tension, and story to every brief
  • Translate business objectives and marketing briefs into compelling creative platforms, not just executions
  • Champion creative consistency and quality across all channels — from performance ads and social to packaging and brand campaigns
  • Develop and evolve the brand voice, ensuring it is distinct, durable, and deeply human
  • Write, direct, and elevate copy across all touchpoints — brand, digital, editorial, CRM, and beyond
  • Set the standard for what great writing looks like at Lingo, providing hands-on guidance and feedback to freelancers, agencies, and internal contributors
  • Maintain and evolve messaging frameworks, tone of voice guidelines, and narrative architecture that the broader team can work from
  • Partner closely with the senior visual designer to ensure copy and design work in genuine creative harmony
  • Work alongside brand, product, and growth marketing teams to bring a cohesive creative voice across every customer touchpoint

Requirements

  • Bachelors Degree
  • 8–12 years of experience in creative roles, with a clear trajectory through copywriting and creative concepting
  • Proven track record leading creative strategy and execution for consumer brands — health, wellness, lifestyle, or technology experience a strong plus
  • A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional writing, smart strategic thinking, and the range to work across brand, digital, and campaign
  • Experience art-directing and collaborating with designers — you don't need to design, but you need to direct
  • Agency, in-house, or hybrid background welcome; experience working in fast-moving, founder-led or scale-up environments is a plus

Preferred

  • A genuine love of language and a belief that great copy is a strategic act, not a finishing touch
  • The ability to zoom out to brand strategy and zoom in to a single headline with equal precision
  • Strong presenter — you can take a room through a creative story and make it land
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and energized by building; this is not a role for those who need all the answers before starting
  • Natural collaborator who makes the people around them better

Benefits

  • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
  • Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
  • An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
  • Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
  • A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
  • A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers, on Instagram @AbbottGlobal, and on X @AbbottNews.We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.Terms of Use: https://www.abbott.com/social-media-terms-of-use.htm

Founded in 1940
North Chicago, Illinois, USA
161K employees (6,303 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
81% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$131K/yr – $261K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$20B
Last Raise
$20B
Post IPO Debt, 7 days ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2026
    Post IPO Debt • $20B
  • Mar 2011
    Post IPO Debt • $100K
  • Mar 2009
    Post IPO Debt • $6.7M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$98.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.6%
Direct
41.4%
Referral
14%
Social
0.9%
Paid
2.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~160.9K

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Associate Creative Director

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