Ogilvy & Mather
Associate Creative Director, Art Director
Ogilvy & Mather, Atlanta, GA
About Ogilvy
Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity - innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com , and follow us on LinkedIn , X , Instagram , and Facebook .
Associate Creative Director
Our Associate Creative Director must demonstrate exceptional conceptual thinking and the ability to develop big, breakthrough ideas across all mediums including storytelling, static, native social, content creation, digital experiences and activations. You'll partner with strategic and creative teams and some of the best social and content experts in the industry.
Your Mission: to conceptualize and develop creative platforms that could travel across the funnel creating ideas that are social at heart and best-in-class creative expressions.
You will tailor your creative and content to audiences, platforms and culturally relevant moments. You will confidently sell your ideas to internal teams, senior leaders, clients and partners.
This is a position for a for a seasoned, driven, results oriented, and highly creative individual with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, manage deadlines, and produce highly effective creative. You must drive the work forward through organization, delivering clear feedback and specific actions for all members of the team.
You are:
Responsibilities
Qualifications
How We'll Support You
Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We'll empower you with the tools you'll need to succeed. We'll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We'll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we'll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you'll be proud, with people you'll be proud to call your teammates.
At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.
We believe in building powerful teams with purpose. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.
Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity - innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com , and follow us on LinkedIn , X , Instagram , and Facebook .
Associate Creative Director
Our Associate Creative Director must demonstrate exceptional conceptual thinking and the ability to develop big, breakthrough ideas across all mediums including storytelling, static, native social, content creation, digital experiences and activations. You'll partner with strategic and creative teams and some of the best social and content experts in the industry.
Your Mission: to conceptualize and develop creative platforms that could travel across the funnel creating ideas that are social at heart and best-in-class creative expressions.
You will tailor your creative and content to audiences, platforms and culturally relevant moments. You will confidently sell your ideas to internal teams, senior leaders, clients and partners.
This is a position for a for a seasoned, driven, results oriented, and highly creative individual with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, manage deadlines, and produce highly effective creative. You must drive the work forward through organization, delivering clear feedback and specific actions for all members of the team.
You are:
- Ambitious - ready to take on a huge challenge
- A "Yes, I can make that happen" person
- In love with your work and passionate about your craft
- A new wave creative: dreamer, doer, maker
- Crazy enough to think you can change the industry
- Self-sufficient
- Innovative - you constantly innovate the shape of a platform, the elements of a campaign, the way a campaign is produced and how activations go live
Responsibilities
- Create platforms for your brands with your extensive knowledge within ATL, social and digital with the ability to work with digital technical leads and creatives of all shapes and backgrounds
- Shape the innovation and experience outcome of campaigns and platforms for the accounts within your brands with your extensive knowledge of technology and modem media platforms.
- Help the overall company to become best in class for innovation and new technologies for the industry. With your consistent output you will be a key part in shaping Ogilvy's innovation and experience output.
- Translate creative direction and copy points from creative briefs into engaging and effective concepts and core creative ideas for an array of brands, products and briefs
- Push the envelope creatively, bringing ideas that could create change not only in advertising but also in culture, tech and design.
- Crafts work that inspires product consumption and engagement
- Ensure creative executions meet the highest standard of craftsmanship
- Comp decks quickly
- Ensure copy tone and style are consistent with visual tone, style, and brand guidelines
- Write, shoot, edit, and produce content owned across multiple channels
- Understand business objectives and audience demographics to be able to successfully land the messaging
- Proofread and vet copy before to ensure consistency in tone, grammar and messaging before assets are handed over to be published
- Stay abreast of global cultural trends and industry updates, and proactively develop timely ideas for real-time content
Qualifications
- 7+years' experience in an agency setting
- Background in social first or tech first agencies
- Adaptable and able to handle changes in briefs, priorities and edits
- True passion for food & beverage vertical
- Portfolio of social forward creative that makes our jaw drop
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent management skills and strong leadership potential
- Expert in MAC software and Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Photoshop
- and Illustrator
- Able to shoot and film scrappy content
- Ability to lead scrappy content creation
- Passion for learning and self-improvement
- Proactive and a self-starter
- Positive attitude and ability to work under tight deadlines
How We'll Support You
Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We'll empower you with the tools you'll need to succeed. We'll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We'll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we'll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you'll be proud, with people you'll be proud to call your teammates.
At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.
We believe in building powerful teams with purpose. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.
Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.