Associate Creative Director, Copywriter

About the Role
We’re looking for an ACD, Copywriter who leads with concepts and executes with craft. You’ll be the voice partner to the ACD Art Director, design team, and content creation team — concepting campaigns together, pushing ideas to unexpected places, and making sure the work says something as interesting as it looks. This isn’t a job where you’re handed a brief and told to fill in the tagline. You’re in the room when the ideas are forming, shaping both what we say and how we say it.

Neither brand is finished. Both have room to grow, tighten, and get more interesting — and we’re looking for someone who sees that as the opportunity, not the problem. If you’re drawn to building and evolving rather than maintaining what’s already there, this is the right role.

This is a player-coach position. You’ll manage two Senior Copywriters and be deeply accountable for their growth — while staying close enough to the work that your own instincts stay sharp. The work spans social, digital, packaging, in-store, and activations across two brands with different audiences. That range is the job.

A Day in the Life
No two days look the same, but here’s a taste of what this role actually feels like:

Sitting in on a brief kickoff with the Brand and Marketing leads for Lumē’s next campaign — asking the questions that reframe the strategy before a single line gets written.
Running a concepting session with the ACD Art Director, building off each other’s thinking until an idea emerges that neither of you would have landed on alone.
Reviewing a batch of social copy from one of your Senior Copywriters — giving feedback that’s specific enough to actually improve the work, not just your version of it.
Partnering with the Social team on a platform-native content series, working together early enough to shape both the idea and how it lives on each channel.
Writing three headline directions for a Lumē product launch yourself, killing two because the third is actually right — then briefing your team on how to extend it.
Pushing back (with evidence) on a brief from Marketing that’s asking for something technically accurate but doesn’t sound like a human being wrote it.
Sitting in a packaging review and being the person in the room who asks: does this actually sound like us?
Ending the day with a clear sense of what your team needs tomorrow — which decisions are yours to make, which ones you need to unblock, and where the work needs to move faster.

What You Will Accomplish
Concept original campaign ideas across social, digital, in-store, and activations in close partnership with the ACD Art Director — bringing strong copy thinking and voice strategy to every brief.
Own the copywriting across all consumer-facing touchpoints: packaging, retail, digital, social, and campaign — with a consistent, evolving brand voice for each brand.
Manage and develop two Senior Copywriters through structured feedback, regular crits, and documented growth goals that raise the overall level of craft on the team.
Help define and document the copy voice for both Lumē and Mando as the brands continue to evolve — building guidelines the broader team can use independently.
Write for and direct video and content production — not as an editor, but as the creative lead ensuring the copy and concept land correctly through production partners.

This Should Describe You
You think in campaigns, not lines. Your instinct is to find the idea first and solve the copy execution second.
You care as much about whether the work sells as whether it’s beautiful — you understand that brand storytelling and business performance aren’t in tension, and you write with both in mind.
You have a confident, well-developed point of view on how a brand should sound — and you can defend it without being precious about it.
You’re a natural mentor — your feedback is direct, specific, and genuinely improves people’s writing, not just their feelings about it.
You’re fluent in social and digital — you understand how copy lives on platforms and how to make writing that feels native, not posted.
You operate well in ambiguity — you can take a loose brief or an unresolved problem and move it forward without needing all the answers first.
You build trust with cross-functional partners by showing up prepared, communicating clearly, and following through.

Here’s Who You’ll Work With
Reporting to the Head of Creative, Lumē & Mando
Managing 2x Senior Copywriters across Lumē and Mando
Close collaboration with the Design Director and design team on brand identity and campaign alignment
Regular cross-functional partnership with the content creation team, Brand, Marketing, Social, Retail, and Product teams