Associate Creative Director

About the role

tmp helps B2B marketing leaders create coherence in a chaotic world. We're looking for obsessively curious people to join us. You'll join 300 B2B experts across strategy, data, creative, media, client services, Sales activation, and shared services. Different skills brought together in integrated teams, centred around our clients: the world's most impactful tech companies.

Responsibilities

• Work day-to-day, side-by-side with a multidisciplinary team, including designers, art directors, writers, strategists and media specialists
• Hold client relationships through the lens of creativity, understanding, interpreting and helping them shape their ideas and goals into something the creative team can build
• Help guide and oversee the direction of projects in partnership with a Creative Director balancing when to challenge and when to deliver
• Lead creative projects from ideation to execution
• Hold client relationships from a creative standpoint — presenting work, leading conversations, and offering creative input
• Be able to distil (sometimes very) complex information into simple benefits
• Lead by example with an eye for detail, showing the team and clients what great quality work looks like
• Craft quality, bold, original concepts, and deliver them across a range of B2B communications from brand awareness campaigns to account-based marketing
• Own your ideas and advocate for them, with a willingness to flex as required
• Generate ideas that: Are surprising and differentiating while still being relevant for the target audience Express the client propositionAre easy to understand and simply expressedInteract thoughtfully and playfully with copy
• Lead creative work that: Uses wit, intelligence and lateral thinkingTakes complex business offerings and translates them into feelingsIs distinctive, inviting and easy to understandIs appropriate to the audience, the medium and conforms to brand requirementsFits, evolves and artfully re-directs brands

Requirements

• 7+ years' experience in a design-based creative role (Agency experience preferred but not essential)
• A portfolio of work that shows your thinking and craft (which we will treat with discretion)
• An eye for detail—you set high standards for your work and expect the same of others
• Experience of working in B2B marketing is great, but B2C works too
• A collaborative spirit and the confidence to own the room — with colleagues and clients alike
• The ability to simplify the complex and make it impactful
• A keen sense of how creativity shows up across different platforms — and what makes ideas stick
• A mastery of creative programs including the Adobe Suite, proficiency in telling stories and selling in ideas with Microsoft PowerPoint, experience with animation and AI programs a plus

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Pre-tax flexible spending account (FSA) - healthcare, dependent care, and transit available
• 4% 401(k) contribution with no vesting period
• Plentiful paid time off
• Sick leave (15 days annually)
• Holiday shutdown (December 26th - 29th)
• Parental leave
• Access to Unmind: Our well-being platform, including access to therapists and coaches
• Company getaways
• Employer-funded life, AD&D & disability insurance

Pay

Salary range: $100,000 - $125,000

Schedule

We are currently eligible to hire within these US states:CA, CO, IL, WA, and TX. An ideal candidate can primarily work CST/EST hours due to client coverage.