{"id":986060,"url":"https://alion.io/job/walker-sands-associate-creative-director-copywriter","title":"Associate Creative Director - Copywriter","company":{"id":687576,"name":"Walker Sands","domain":"walkersands.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/walkersands","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Marketing","role_family":"Marketing","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Boston, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":84000,"max":93000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":93000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-16T20:33:30Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-17","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T10:42:03Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":14,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":14},"description":"Walker Sands is one of the fastest-growing integrated B2B marketing agencies in the world. We are looking for a high-impact Associate Creative Director - Copywriter to help fuel that continued growth. Total compensation for this role is expected to be between $84,000 - $93,000 per year.\nAs an agency, we exist to accelerate growth-for our clients, our people and the B2B industry. We partner with B2B technology and services companies, from high-growth Silicon Valley businesses to global Fortune 500 brands, to drive meaningful business results. At Walker Sands, curiosity sparks new ideas, collaboration makes the work stronger, and people are at the center of everything we do.\nWalker Sands is looking for a talented Associate Creative Director - Copywriter to join our team. The Associate Creative Director - Copywriter is a senior creative leader who drives the conceptual direction, voice, and messaging of integrated B2B campaigns. They turn brand and audience insights into clear, differentiated platforms, guide the copy team, and ensure work is strategic, scalable, and creatively strong. They also support client relationships, new business, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to deliver creative that drives real business impact.\nWhat You Will Do: \nCreative and Concept Leadership:\nPartner with art directors and strategists in the conceptual development of integrated campaign platforms rooted in strategic insight\nServe as the creative leader for copywriter, art director, and designer teams on assigned clients and projects, elevating, guiding and reviewing work from cross-discipline creatives\nInspire internal and client teams to push creativity boundaries, ensuring ideas are bold, differentiated, and deliver real business value\nProvide high-level creative and copy approvals, thoughtful feedback, and QC on assigned accounts\nCopy, Content, and Messaging Development:\nServe as the lead copywriter on high-profile accounts, translating complex B2B messaging into creatively compelling copy across all tactics in full-funnel campaign plans\nWork closely with the strategy team to define strategic messaging territories, brand narratives, and verbal frameworks\nBuild scalable messaging platforms that translate across all channels throughout complex buyer journeys, from awareness and consideration tactics to evaluation and sales enablement deliverables\nEnsure voice and tone are consistent, ownable, and adaptable across multiple audiences and personas\nCross-Functional Collaboration:\nCollaborate closely with art directors and designers throughout all stages of the creative process\nPartner with strategists to ensure all creative work is aligned with brand positioning, audience insights and strategic messaging\nWork alongside PR, media, social and content teams to unify integrated activations into consistent campaign frameworks\nPresent campaign concepts and messaging frameworks to senior internal and client stakeholders with persuasion, clarity and conviction\nTeam Leadership and Growth:\nMentor, inspire and develop copywriters across all experience levels, including serving as a direct coach to assigned copywriters.\nProvide clear and thoughtful feedback in creative reviews that strengthens conceptual thinking and copywriting craft.\nContribute to hiring, performance management and creative team planning.\nHelp foster a department-wide culture of curiosity, creative excellence and accountability.\nContinuously strengthen your own craft across conceptual thinking, copywriting and emerging creative technologies.\nStay current on advertising trends, B2B marketing innovation and AI-enabled creative workflows.\nNew Business and Agency Growth:\nSupport department leaders in new business efforts, contributing strategic and conceptually compelling work to pitches and growth opportunities\nHelp define and elevate Walker Sands’ creative reputation within the B2B advertising community\nContribute to internal and external thought leadership that showcases our perspective on brand building, design systems and creative effectiveness\nNon-Negotiables \nYou crave candid feedback. You embrace it as a powerful tool for growth.\nYou pursue excellence. You’re always learning, always sharing, always pushing to get better.\nYou set and uphold the quality bar. You clearly define what “excellent” looks like and ensure your team consistently meets it.\nYou’re proactive. You don’t wait for direction; you bring ideas, solutions, and momentum.\nYou embody agency readiness. You stay steady in pace, navigate shifting priorities, and help your team do the same.\nWhat You Bring:\nExperience: 8+ years of agency copywriting experience, within B2B or complex industries, with a strong portfolio demonstrating a high level of conceptual thinking, full-funnel copy writing expertise and award winning work\nCraft: Exceptional conceptual and copywriting craft across campaign, brand, and content formats\nIntegrated Campaigns: Deep experience leading integrated campaigns and brand messaging systems\nTools: High level of proficiency with AI platforms\nWhat We Offer:\nStarting Salary: $84,000 - $93,000\nBase salary is only a part of the total rewards package. Placement on the salary scale will be determined by a variety of factors to ensure internal equity.\nStarting salaries are not inclusive of a full range of compensation for this role and are instead meant to reflect the expected beginning salary for a new hire. Merit-based increases can be earned after time in role.\nBonus Potential: This role will be eligible for a bonus based on company performance.\nGrowth Opportunities: Clear career paths, mentorship programs, and learning events to help you grow professionally.\nFlexible PTO and Hybrid Work: Take time as needed for vacations, mental health, or personal days. Includes 8 paid holidays, half-day summer Fridays, and a week off between Christmas and New Year.\nHealth Coverage: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans. Mental health resources, pet insurance, and more.\n Retirement Savings: Employer-matched 401(k) and access to financial planning services.\nAdditional Protection: Life insurance, disability coverage, and other benefits that provide added financial security.\n Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Free, confidential support for you and your household, including counseling, mental health resources, and help navigating life’s everyday challenges.\nFamily Support: Paid leave for new parents and caregivers, plus policies for fertility treatment, pregnancy loss, adoption challenges, and more.\nPerformance & Coaching: Regular performance reviews, clear goal-setting, and ongoing coaching to help you understand expectations, grow your skills, and make progress in your career.\nMilestone Sabbatical: Celebrate five years with a two-week sabbatical and a $2,000 gift.\nCommunity & Belonging: Employee resource groups, volunteer opportunities, and programs designed to build connection across the agency.\nCulture: Our agency offers an award-winning culture. Read more on our website here!\nWe strongly encourage people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. As an equal opportunity employer Walker Sands is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and welcomes everyone to our team.\nIn your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).\nIf you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7562,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Growth opportunities","Hybrid work","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Media & Entertainment","Sales & Marketing","Creative Agencies"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-16T23:41:17Z"}],"liveness":{"score":72,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.795,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":14,"expected_fill_days":25,"reasons":["conf:5","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":93000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/walker-sands-associate-creative-director-copywriter","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/walker-sands-associate-creative-director-copywriter.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T11:12:24Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2718,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2282,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}