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Associate Creative Director / Copywriter
Bakery Agency
Austin, USA
Full-time
Senior · 8+ years experience
Hybrid
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You partner with an ACD on the art side and report into a Creative Director. Together you run the work day to day, from the brief to the final deliverable. You're not just managing, you're in it. Writing lines, shaping scripts, sitting in the edit, pushing a piece until it's right.
You lead by doing. Senior, mid-weight, and junior creatives on your team learn what good looks like by watching how you work, not just by getting your notes on their work. You set the standard in the room, on set, on the page, in the edit bay, wherever the work actually gets made.
Here's what you'll own:
Hands-on development of the work alongside your team, not just oversight of it
Day-to-day leadership of writers across every level, senior to junior
Partnership with your art-side ACD to keep ideas and execution moving together
The gap between a CD's vision and what actually gets made
Client presentations, alongside your CD and on your own when it's called for
Core responsibilities
- Write and lead the copy on your work, not just direct someone else's
- Set the voice and standard for writers below you, by doing the work in front of them
- Present your own thinking directly to clients and hold the room when it's challenged
- Push back on feedback that would flatten the idea, and know the difference between that and feedback that makes it better
- Partner tightly with an art-side ACD so copy and concept move as one thing, not two
- This role is on-site 3-4 days a week.
Requirements
- You've spent at least 8 years in top agencies making work that has shipped and had impact. If the work has made the rounds at award circuits, even better. We're only considering candidates from agencies making work we recognize and respect. We are not hiring brand-side. You know what it means to run multiple clients at once, work a pitch cadence that doesn't stop, and move at a pace other industries don't operate at.
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