Responsibilities

• Lead projects and run productions independently.
• Adapt and deliver at the highest level on any brief thrown their way.
• Examine briefs carefully, know when (and how) to push, and show up for their creative directors, integrated teams, and the creatives they oversee on any given project.
• Manage several core client assignments while contributing to ad hoc briefs and new business opportunities.
• Deliver career-defining creative work and contribute to Carmichael Lynch’s company culture.
• Shape and execute strategic, award-winning creative that helps our clients push their businesses forward.
• Seamlessly jump on other accounts as a pinch-hitter creative to move conceptual work forward.
• Develop creative management craft by delivering feedback, motivating, teaching, and knowing when to jump in.
• Set the bar for creative craft and excellence.
• Know their clients, their briefs, their tone, and their business.
• Build client relationships and trust.
• Deliver presentations with the ability to speak to full-funnel campaign strategy.
• Lead cross-departmental integration on projects.
• Demonstrate strong time management skills by carving out time for team projects and balancing meetings, reviews, and feedback when leading projects.
• Manage up by having the trust of CDs, ECDs, and CCO to reliably block and tackle internal and client needs across accounts.
• Serve as a go-to resource for junior creatives.

Requirements

• Must have a minimum of 6 years of experience in a traditional advertising agency copywriter position. (If your current job title is designer, be sure to have ample copywriting/concepting examples in your portfolio. This is not a design-only job.)
• Demonstrate proven record of concepting, selling, and shipping full-funnel creative work, inclusive of TV, online video, social, influencer, digital, and experiential activations.
• Work independently and with a creative partner required.

Preferred

• Managerial/supervisory experience welcomed

Benefits

• Professional Development (performance reviews 2x annually, training opportunities related to your field of development, one-on-ones with managers, etc.)
• We offer competitive, equitable salaries (reviewed annually to ensure equity and competitiveness)
• A strong, vibrant, continually-evolving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion belief (in thought and action), encompassing our agency and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Recognizing the voices that need to be heard.
• Competitive, company and employee sponsored benefits, including: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, PTO (vacation/sick time) allowance, maternity leave, parental leave, paid company holidays, Family Building Benefit (adoption, surrogacy benefit), and much more.