Associate Creative Director

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

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.

What We Are Looking For

We're looking for an Associate Creative Director with a flair for conceptual work and a strong focus on design and visual storytelling. You understand the power of creative ideas, you can bring your own, build on the thinking of others, and articulate it all with your craft, turning ideas into exciting, memorable work.

You can get the best out of a creative brief, think beyond traditional B2B assets, and make the visuals and messaging sing together. You own projects end-to-end, shape the creative direction, build client relationships, and bring others with you. You don't wait to be asked; you drive the work, expanding on the thinking and bringing it to life in ways that inspire your team and excite clients.

You believe B2B work should be just as powerful, imaginative, and award-worthy as B2C, and you're motivated by the chance to help shape the overall creative strategy.

What You Will Do

• •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 and interpreting their ideas and goals into something the creative team can build.
• •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, presenting work, leading conversations, and offering creative input.
• •Distil complex information into simple, clear benefits.
• •Lead by example with an eye for detail, showing the team and clients what great quality work looks like.
• •Make one half of an excellent visual-verbal pairing on conceptual work — happy to pitch headlines and appreciative when writers suggest visual ideas.
• •Take a reasonably strategic approach, looking at client challenges in the round without switching off at talk of funnels, personas, and go-to-market.
• •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.

Ideas You Will Generate

• •Surprising and differentiating while still being relevant for the target audience
• •Expressive of the client proposition
• •Easy to understand and simply expressed
• •Thoughtfully and playfully interactive with copy

Creative Work You Will Lead

• •Uses wit, intelligence, and lateral thinking
• •Takes complex business offerings and translates them into feelings
• •Is distinctive, inviting, and easy to understand
• •Is appropriate to the audience, the medium, and conforms to brand requirements
• •Fits, evolves, and artfully re-directs brands

Who You Are

• •Interested in technology, the role it plays in everyday life, and you have an opinion on AI.
• •You appreciate the importance of processes and systems and understand that sometimes we must bend the process to meet the needs of the work and our people.
• •You see the bigger picture and want to use your talent to build with creativity, not just deliver on what's in front of you.
• •You're a team player and see collaboration as a superpower.

What You Will Need

• •7+ years of experience in a design-based creative role (agency experience preferred but not essential).
• •A portfolio of work that shows your thinking and craft.
• •An eye for detail — you set high standards for your work and expect the same of others.
• •Experience 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.
• •Comfort switching between big conceptual thinking and day-to-day content, and doing both well.
• •A keen sense of how creativity shows up across different platforms and what makes ideas stick.
• •Mastery of creative programs including the Adobe Suite.
• •Proficiency in storytelling and selling ideas with Microsoft PowerPoint.
• •Experience with animation and AI programs is a plus.

Compensation and Benefits

• •Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• •Pre-tax flexible spending account (FSA) — healthcare, dependent care, and transit
• •4% 401(k) contribution with no vesting period
• •Unlimited PTO with a recommended minimum of 20 days
• •15 days sick leave annually
• •Holiday shutdown December 26th through 29th
• •Parental leave: 12 weeks full pay then 12 weeks at 50% pay for primary caregiver; 12 weeks full pay for secondary caregiver
• •Access to Unmind well-being platform including therapists and coaches
• •Employer-funded life, AD&D, and disability insurance
• •Company getaways and team events

Location

We are currently eligible to hire within these US states: CA, CO, IL, WA, and TX.