At Code and Theory, Associate Creative Director, Copywriters have broad copywriting experience and can expertly and seamlessly concept, write and collaborate across all digital touchpoints—inclusive of product, brand, and campaign. Partnering closely with strategists and fellow creatives, you will invent, collaborate, and deliver crafted, thoughtful work that simultaneously demonstrates both passion for emerging tech, as well as linguistic savvy and strategic and cultural relevance.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
As a product writer, you have a focused range of skills and want to hone them. Here are the main forms your work will take:
- Interface Copy: Format and complete copy manuscripts for sites, collaborating with both interaction designers and visual designers to ensure the work is functional and effective
- Technical: Write clear/tight instructional copy for ecommerce and more, with strategic CTAs
- Long Form: Apply journalistic sensibilities to pull the lead and thread a narrative
- Scriptwriting: Compose vivid treatments and video scripts that explain concepts or products through both voice over and supers
- Deck Writing: Effectively explain conceptual ideas and develop an argument with impactful cadence
- Voice Development: Create a guide to brand voice, including actionable tactics and best practices for digital channels
- Naming: Brainstorm to produce names and rationale that exhibit strategic, linguistic creativity
- Presentations: Participate in, and lead client presentations, sessions and follow-up meetings
- Management: ACDs at C&T have direct reports and conduct both formal and informal reviews for peers
ESSENTIALS
- 7+ years of copywriting experience, including time at a leading digital agency
- A portfolio featuring content-heavy website writing
- Ability to present clearly and develop relationships with clients
- Experience working capably across teams with varied strengths and experience levels
- Strength in working closely with interaction designers and visual designers to ensure optimal alignment and clarity
- Experience in CMS platforms and formatting
- A positive outlook and optimistic attitude; genuinely cares about creating excellent work
- Can calmly and capably manage timelines, multi-task and work collaboratively
- Ability to shift voice and tone to write for a broad range of brands and platforms
SUMMARY
Associate Creative Directors don’t just take assignments or fill in blanks, but ask questions and contribute important solutions that lead to smarter, better work through the lens of the copy discipline. On a day to day basis, Associate Creative Directors will at times lean hard into specific briefs or dance across projects. You should feel confident presenting work and actively participating in discussions with existing or prospective clients—as well as guiding more junior writers to broaden, understand and improve their work.
ABOUT US
Born in 2001, Code and Theory is a digital-first creative agency that sits at the center of creativity and technology. We pride ourselves on not only solving consumer and business problems, but also helping to establish new capabilities for our clients. With a global client roster of Fortune 100s and start-ups alike, we crave the hardest problems to solve. We have teams distributed across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The Code and Theory global network of agencies is growing and includes Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Create Group, Mediacurrent, Rhythm, and TrueLogic.
Striving never to be pigeonholed, we work across every major category: from tech to CPG, financial services to travel & hospitality, government and education to media and publishing. We value the collaboration with our client partners, including but not limited to Adidas, Amazon, Con Edison, Diageo, EY, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lenovo, Marriott, Mars, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and TikTok.
The Code and Theory network is comprised of nearly 2,000 people with 50% engineers and 50% creative talent. We’re always on the lookout for smart, driven, and forward-thinking people to join our team.
This is a full-time role, based in the United States. The target range of base compensation for this role is $120,000 - $145,000. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience and location.
Top Skills
What We Do
Code and Theory is a strategically driven, digital-first creative agency that lives at the intersection of creativity and technology. We solve consumer and business problems across the entire customer journey that flex to meet the ever-changing needs of consumer expectations. We put the user, their behaviors and needs, at the center of everything we do — from our proprietary research methodologies, to product development processes, to how we create brand, channel and messaging strategies. Our goal is simple: to solve our clients business problems.
We bring big ideas to life by looking holistically at brand ecosystems where digital plays a prominent role in driving the consumer from first-touch through to conversion to relationship deepening over time. We identify gaps in the consumer journey and opportunities in culture that require products, services or communications to fill. We work across categories, ranging as far and wide as health care (Pfizer, Sanofi, Reach MD, Bioreference Laboratories) to financial services (JP Morgan Chase, Prudential, Morgan Stanley, First Data) to cpg (Mars, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson) to technology companies (Facebook, Xerox, Samsung, Comcast) to culture brands (adidas, H&M). And because our DNA is in publishing — we’ve embedded in over 135 newsrooms in the past decade — we bring unique expertise in understanding how content is created, distributed and optimized, including our work with CNN, NBC News, NBC Sports, and Bustle Digital Group.
At Code and Theory, we strive to only be limited by our own ambition and creativity. We believe in pushing our creativity beyond the easy and obvious answers in order to deliver the solutions that are right for our clients, their businesses, and their consumers.
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