Associate Creative Strategist / Copywriter

About You

We're looking for candidates with 2–4 years of experience in copywriting, creative strategy, advertising, or a related field who bring the following qualities:

• A Creative Thinker – You love coming up with big ideas and finding unexpected ways to bring brands into culture.
• Strategically Minded – You're naturally curious about the "why" behind an idea. You can connect creative thinking to consumer insights, brand objectives, and business challenges.
• A Strong Writer – You have a knack for turning complex ideas into simple, compelling stories. Whether it's a headline, campaign concept, manifesto, or presentation.
• Culturally Curious – You actively seek inspiration from advertising, sports, entertainment, emerging trends, and the world around you.
• Proactive & Resourceful –You bring fresh thinking, seek out opportunities, ask questions, and take ownership of your work from start to finish.
• Adaptable & Collaborative – You thrive in a fast-paced agency environment, can juggle multiple projects and deadlines, and enjoy collaborating with people across different disciplines.
• Detail-Oriented – You take pride in the details, from the clarity of your writing and strength of your ideas to the quality of the presentations you help create.

Key Responsibilities

• Big Creative Ideas: Concept and develop innovative, strategically grounded campaign ideas, sponsorship activations, and brand experiences across sports and entertainment.
• Copywriting & Messaging: Write compelling headlines, taglines, campaign narratives, manifestos, and other creative copy that brings brand ideas to life.
• Creative Strategy: Support the development of creative narratives, strategic territories, and campaign platforms rooted in audience insights, cultural relevance, and client objectives.
• Insight Development: Identify audience tensions, cultural truths, fan behaviors, and marketplace opportunities that can serve as strategic springboards for creative ideas.
• Trends: Research and synthesize consumer behavior, cultural trends, competitive activity, and emerging opportunities into compelling trend reports and actionable creative insights.
• Brainstorming & Ideation: Contribute original ideas to team brainstorms and collaborate with Creative Directors, Designers, Strategists, and other agency partners to develop and refine concepts.
• Presentation Development: Help craft compelling creative presentations and pitch materials that clearly articulate the insight, idea, and rationale behind the work.
• New Business: Support new business opportunities through research, creative concepting, strategic storytelling, and pitch development.

Required Skills & Experience

• 2–4 years of experience in copywriting, creative strategy, advertising, or a related creative discipline.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, writing ability, and creative ideas. Work that shows the thinking behind the creative is especially encouraged.
• Strong copywriting and storytelling skills across multiple formats.
• Ability to translate research, audience insights, and client briefs into clear, compelling creative concepts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to articulate and present creative thinking.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
• Comfortable receiving constructive feedback, iterating on creative work, and collaborating across teams.
• A genuine passion for advertising, creativity, and culture. Interest in sports and entertainment is a strong plus.

Inclusion and Diversity

We’re proud to be different, and that starts with our people. To us, representation means more than just diversity; it means true equity. Individuality is what makes us great; we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing.

We constantly evaluate our practices and policies, create and sustain pathways to promotion, and are intentional about how we create and distribute resources, giving people what they need to grow. That’s what we care about. So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create opportunities for everyone.

We offer team member support through flexible working arrangements and schedules that promote work/life balance, along with progressive parental and caregiver programs, as well as opportunities to give back to the community as part of our global social responsibility efforts.

If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

Additional Information

At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we’re connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams.

Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, Metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time.

Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.

The annual salary range for this position is $66,300 - $75,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits available with this position include

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
• Life insurance,
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
• 401k,
• Flexible paid time off,
• At least 15 paid holidays per year,
• Paid sick and safe leave, and
• Paid parental leave.

• Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited, providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies.
• To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.

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• Location: New York
• Brand: Mktg Sports
• Time Type: Full time
• Contract Type: Permanent

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