Associate Creative Director, Writing

VSA’s purpose is to design for a better human experience. As a strategy and design agency, we blend consumer insights and data with human‑centered design to activate meaningful, motivating and measurable experiences in an increasingly noisy world. With offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco, VSA offers a full range of fully integrated capabilities—branding, advertising, data science and technology—all under one roof.

VSA is also a proud member of Meet The People, an international family of unified and independent agencies. For more than 40 years, we have delivered solutions for business and creative leaders at some of the world’s most respected brands and forward‑thinking organizations, including Google, Nike and IBM.

Summary:

About you:

You’re a writer’s writer. You read books. You love words. You care about punctuation and the rhythm and feel it gives a sentence, and you appreciated the em dash long before AI made people second guess themselves for using one.

When it comes to copy, you’re equal parts strategist and stylist. You care deeply about what the copy says and obsess over saying it in the most compelling way possible.

You’re curious, with an award‑winning attitude. No matter how long you’ve been doing this, you’re still eager to learn as much as you can from everyone you meet.

You love collaborating with smart, hardworking people who love the craft and hold themselves to the highest standards of excellence.

Speaking of people, you care a lot about bringing humanity into everything you do.

You are genuinely interested in all kinds of businesses and want to understand how they operate.

You know the difference between an idea and an execution.

You’re passionate about building great brands and creating the advertising that powers their growth.

You have a lot of range. If you were an actor, you wouldn’t be the kind that plays the same role every time. No, not you—you’d adapt, you’d adjust, and you’d bring something new to every performance.

If this sounds like you, we want to hop on a Zoom as soon as possible.

• Lead the development and definition of the “voice” for a client, program or
  individual project.
• Establish and/or interpret brand positioning, tone and attributes.
• Think visually as well as verbally, contributing from the outset to the structure, concept,
  look and feel of a client project.
• Work closely with strategists, designers, and other team members to create and refine
  content and/or build campaign concepts.
• Quickly identify gaps in knowledge and take initiative to fill them.
• Participate in new‑business development, contributing to RFP responses, pitches and
  spec creative.
• Meet and manage to deadlines.
• Foster a working environment that promotes and embraces independent and creative
  thinking, diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

• 6 to 9 years of experience in branding, marketing, advertising, business,
  communications or a related field.
• An undergraduate degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Advertising or
  Integrated/Strategic Communications.
• Experience in a client‑facing role in a professional services environment.
• A portfolio that demonstrates the skills listed above.

Chicago Estimated Salary Range
$110,000 - $127,000 USD

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