Associate Creative Director, Copy (Social Style)

Overview

PLEASE NOTE:
This is a Hybrid role requiring 3 days per week on-site.

You must be able to commute to Playa Vista, CA or Hoboken, NJ.

Note for Hoboken-based candidates: Potential travel to Los Angeles (LA) will be required.

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As the Associate Creative Director, Copy for Style Social, you’ll be responsible for leading the social-first creative ideation and execution for the company’s Style content straddling the fashion, beauty, and home strategic business units.

Partnering with your Associate Creative Director (Art) you’ll shape ideas that resonate culturally, drive conversation, and elevate the company as a Style destination. You’ll guide and mentor your Senior Copywriter, collaborate across production, and marketing to ensure the brand’s voice feels both aspirational and authentically the company. Additionally, you’ll bring a blend of leadership skills and hands-on expertise to the table.

The ideal candidate has a strong eye for storytelling in social environments, a passion for culture and trends, and deep experience in fashion, lifestyle, or beauty content creation.

Requirements:

Best-in-Class Creative

• Lead concept development and copy direction for Style Social content across social platforms including Instagram and Pinterest.
• Write and oversee compelling, socially fluent copy that elevates the company’s Style and connects with fashion, beauty, and home audiences.
• Partner with your Associate Creative Director (Art) to create insight-driven ideas that translate seamlessly from concept through production and post.
• Guide messaging across campaigns to ensure storytelling is strategic, relevant, and engaging on social.
• Stay deeply attuned to cultural trends that influence tone, humor, and storytelling in social spaces.

Brand Consistency

• Define and champion the company’s Style voice on social within the company’s broader creative ecosystem, ensuring all content feels social-first, inspiring, and “company-right.”
• Align copy and visuals to brand moments (e.g., seasonal campaigns) while maintaining an always-on, social-native perspective.
• Maintain high standards of quality and craft throughout the conceptual and execution process, ensuring that final creative meets or exceeds expectations.

Team Leadership and Development

• Contribute to and grow your team with optimism and enthusiasm, pursuing an award-winning in-house model.
• Foster positive, constructive relationships with junior members within your team.

Efficiency

• Operate fluidly between strategy and execution, balancing creative excellence with social speed.
• Partner with Creative Account Management and Production to keep timelines tight and workflows efficient.
• Anticipate pivots and feedback with adaptability, ensuring workstreams stay on track without compromising quality.

Client Partnership

• Build trust with cross-functional partners by delivering excellent creative that meets business goals.
• Confidently present work, articulating the strategy and creative rationale behind the ideas.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Associate Creative Director or similar role in an agency or in-house creative environment.
• Portfolio that demonstrates brand social-first content across fashion, beauty or home.
• Deep understanding of social platforms, storytelling, and cultural trends.
• Leadership and collaboration skills with a track record of mentoring creative talent.
• Deep understanding of brand storytelling, customer insights, and creative strategy.
• Proficiency in key creative tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Google Slides, Microsoft Office, Slack).
• Minimum 8 years of experience as a writer in related fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, English, Creative Writing, or related field preferred.

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $70.00 to $76.00. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits! 

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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