Associate Creative Director

Golin

About Us:

Golin is a progressive public relations agency with expertise ranging from brand-building and cutting-edge digital content to corporate reputation, healthcare advocacy and measurement. Golin aligns earned-first, data-driven creative with the customer journey, to deliver maximum impact for clients and reach a profoundly diverse global market. “Go All In” is the agency’s ethos and commitment to bravery over mediocrity.

We Go All In, in everything we do. We’re especially committed to Go All In for our people. We challenge our employees to be Courageously Happy and have empowered them to do so by offering our Lifetime benefits program. Lifetime offers flexible time off, enhanced family care, ridiculously good health and wellness benefits, and a monthly Lifetime stipend for the gym or hobbies. We really do want you to play as hard as you work!

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Position Details

Associate Creative Director
Job
Full-time
3/30/2023
Chicago Illinois
Chicago, IL

Golin Chicago (our headquarter office) is looking for an Associate Creative Director. The ACD role has a simple job description: Come up with award-winning ideas that break the internet. Fun ideas. Provocative ideas. Totally off-the-wall ideas. Ideas that make every Creative Director at every other agency in the world want to recruit you away from us.

But you’re not going to want to leave because you’ll be working on everything from Super Bowl briefs to trying to create the next TikTok challenge to doing socially conscious work that makes the world a better place — all while building your book with diverse, channel-agnostic work for some of the coolest, biggest brands on the planet.

Not only that,but you’ll also know for a fact that your ideas are going to earn national attention from Buzzfeed, Complex, and Hype beast because you’ll have the power of the entire GolinPR media team pitching to make your ideas famous.

As a creative, you won’t just be making ads,you’ll be making culture. Don’t get us wrong, making adsis great, but moving culture and making headlines is even better. In fact, our approach has helped us win both Cannes Lions and back-to-back-to-back PRWeek Global Agency of the Year.

What You'll Do:

Make it up. Then make it happen.

Job #1 is to bring the freshest, most inspired, most unexpected thinking that solves a client’s problem. Job #2 is to use every creative skill youhave to bring your ideas to life. 

  • Collaborate with your creative director, strategist, media, digital, and account teams to ensure your work is always relevant, strategically sound, and headline-worthy.  
  • Communicate your ideas to the clients with clarity, strategic insight, and passion. 
  • Hunt for and share out with the rest of the team what’s breaking in culture BEFORE it breaks in culture.  
  • Proactive thinking. You’re always bringing ideas because you know not every opportunity lives within the brief.

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years’ experience in advertising, social, or digital media. 
  • Knowledge of earned media is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • You understand every social media platform and speak the language of the internet. 
  • Art Director: You’re a wizard in Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator and have an understanding of visual storytelling. 
  • Writer: You’re a wizard at using words to communicate emotion and inciting people to hit that share button. 
  • You’re a genuinely nice person who brings energy every single day to your work and to the agency.

Salary range: $70,000-$130,000

Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon, among other factors: a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations.



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