Associate Creative Director Copy (Remote US)

Irvine, CA (Remote)

$120K/yr – $130K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 19 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the creative direction and campaign concepting for strategic pitches, turning briefs into territories and narratives while driving messaging strategy and performance copy direction.

  • Lead creative strategy and performance-focused storytelling
  • Shape briefs into concrete campaign concepts and messaging
  • Collaborate with designers to ensure strong concept and copy direction

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Campaign Strategy
  • Support new-business and portfolio-sales opportunities with speculative creative, campaign narratives, and stronger creative presence in strategic pitches.
  • Create the foundation for Directive’s strategic creative approach.
  • Primary responsibility is creative direction, campaign concepting, messaging strategy, and performance copy direction.
  • Turns campaign and creative briefs into territories, concepts, hooks, headlines, CTAs, landing-page narrative direction, and message sequencing.
  • Partners with designers by giving them a strong concept and copy direction to execute against.
  • Builds the early proof points, examples, and campaign-style case studies needed to support future creative revenue growth.

Requirements

  • 4–6 years of professional creative experience, with a meaningful portion in an agency, professional services, or B2B marketing environment
  • A portfolio that shows range across brand work and performance creative — we need to see both a visual system you built and an ad campaign you designed that drove measurable results
  • Experience developing campaigns from concept through execution.
  • Ability to maintain and evolve brand standards across multiple channels.
  • Understanding of creative strategy and storytelling.
  • Ability to translate ICP, positioning, personas, JTBD insights, proof points, objections, and funnel-stage context into creative hypotheses and campaign concepts.
  • Executive presence and confidence presenting creative strategy in new-business, portfolio-sales, client-facing, or leadership settings.
  • Strong understanding of performance creative, testing methodology, message iteration, pipeline influence, and revenue-oriented creative measurement.
  • Ability to partner effectively with production designers, paid media strategists, Account Directors, Growth, and Sales without needing to personally execute design production.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and helping shape the brief when the request is not fully formed.

Preferred

  • Project management tools — Asana, or similar; you will work within an existing PM workflow
  • Familiarity with a marketing analytics stack — GA4, Looker, or similar; you can read a dashboard and extract creative implications independently

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision plans, disability, and life insurance coverage for you and your family that fit your lifestyle
  • Including a 100% employer-paid plan for you and a 50% employer contribution for your dependents
  • Mental - Access to certified therapists through Spring Health, membership to Headspace
  • Physical - Physical therapy through Omada, fertility support through Carrott, thousands of Aaptiv virtual workouts, complimentary One Medical membership for primary and virtual care
  • Time Off - Unlimited PTO (2-week minimum), Paid Company Holidays, Your Birthday Off, End of Year Recharge (Closed December 24 - January 1), Paid Parental Leave
  • Financial - Traditional and Roth 401(k) with a 3% company match
  • Bonus - Annual bonus based on tenure, which scales in total amount over time
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Directive

The world's largest B2B brands trust the global team at Directive Consulting to bring their performance marketing campaign results to life. Directive's proven Customer Generation methodology has generated +$1B in revenue for clients in the last 10 years by blending best-in-class campaigns across Paid Media, Content + SEO, Design, Strategy, and RevOps. It's time for B2B companies to stop guessing about marketing ROI and start predicting sales revenue with industry-leading financial modeling. Build a winning game plan with Directive. You can find our talented team in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC!

Founded in 2014
Irvine, California, US
211 employees (116 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$120K/yr – $130K/yr

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Associate Creative Director Copy (Remote US)

Directive · Irvine, CA · Remote