Creative Director, Copy

At Code and Theory, Creative Director/Copywriters have extensive copywriting experience and can expertly and seamlessly concept, write and collaborate across all digital touchpoints—and above the line. You will direct, invent and deliver crafted, thoughtful work that simultaneously demonstrates both passion for emerging tech, as well as linguistic savvy. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Creative Directors are adept at not only interpreting strategy, but informing it and translating it to campaign concepts. This is a strategy-led agency and productive collaboration with strategists is essential to the work we do and the client relationships we nurture. You should feel confident presenting work and actively participating in discussions with existing or prospective clients—as well as guiding more junior writers, who learn in all different ways, to broaden, understand and improve their work.

As a brand writer, you have a focused range of skills and want to hone them. Here are the main forms your work will take:

• Concepting: Concept and execute on integrated branded campaigns across connected platforms, working with designers, developers and production teams, ensuring that creative ideas are on-strategy and directly answer briefs
• Scriptwriting: Compose vivid treatments and scripts that tell stories through both voice over and supers
• Deck Writing: Effectively explain conceptual ideas and develop an argument with impactful cadence, from manifestos to idea writeups
• Campaign Copy: Nuance a campaign message across multiple platforms and contexts
• Wayfinding: Your work could live in experiential environments, where leading the way, in unique contexts, is key
• Presentations: Participate in, and lead client presentations, sessions and follow-up meetings; for pitches in particular, this requires the ability to demonstrate and deliver work with passion and energy 
• Management: Nurturing talent is a form your work takes, and CDs at C&T have direct reports and conduct both formal and informal reviews for peers

ESSENTIALS

While we’re a light-hearted and creative group at Code and Theory, we do have some concrete requirements for this position. To be an effective Creative Director, you should have:

• Integrated experience, including time at a leading digital agency
• A portfolio featuring 360 campaigns with a digital bent
• Ability to present clearly and develop relationships with clients
• Experience working capably across teams with varied strengths and experience levels
• Strength in leading brainstorms and guiding work
• 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, and deliver a range of innovative creative solutions

ABOUT US

Code and Theory is a digital-first creative agency that lives at the intersection of creativity and technology, which enables us to work across the entire end-to-end customer journey. We pride ourselves on not only solving consumer and business problems, but also helping to establish new capabilities for our clients.

Since 2001, we have helped redefine the publishing landscape, working with over 145 publishers in the process, while helping to create the first and second generation of digital-first publishers. Striving to never be pigeonholed, today we work across every major category, from tech to CPG, financial services to travel & hospitality, government and education, and partner with leading brands and startups alike, including adidas, Amazon, CNN, Con Edison, Estee Lauder, J.P. Morgan Chase, MARS, NBC, Samsung, Spotify, TikTok, and Xerox. 

Code and Theory has a dedicated healthcare practice, eponymously named Code And Theory Health, focused on driving category innovation as we've done for other industries over the past two decades, working with clients such as Pfizer, J&J and Bioreference Laboratories. 

The Code and Theory global network of agencies is growing and includes Kettle, Mediacurrent, Rhythm, and TrueLogic. Collectively, our team is comprised of nearly 1000 strategists, technologists, designers, analysts, and content creators, and with a remote-first approach to offices, we are distributed across North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

Code and Theory is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. DE&I at Code and Theory isn’t just an industry concept that we support, for us it is a mandate and a practice that we weave into everything we do, and everything we make, every single day.