Creative Director, Copy - Bilingual Job at Movement Strategy in New York

Creative Director, Copy

Position: Full-Time

Location: This position offers remote work based in EST from (Atlanta/New York/Denver). Please note that applicants outside of these cities may be considered.

Overview:

Movement Strategy is looking for a Bilingual (English/Spanish) Creative Director, Copy to lead social-first, culturally fluent creative for a high-profile music account. Reporting to the Group Creative Director, you'll set the creative vision for the podpushing craft, guiding a team of writers and makers, and delivering work that feels unmistakably of the moment. This role sits at the intersection of music, culture, and community, and requires ongoing collaboration with Spanish-speaking artists, partners, and stakeholders to shape ideas that resonate across Latin and rotational markets.

You are a seasoned creative thinker and writer with deep social agency experience and a strong portfolio of breakthrough work. You're equally comfortable pitching a campaign to senior clients, building creative platforms from scratch, concepting alongside art partners, or coaching writers to do the best work of their careers. You understand how to create for the moment, the medium, and the cultural conversation.

Key Focus Areas:

Creative Leadership:

• Lead and inspire multidisciplinary creative teams across levelswriters, art directors, designers, production, and cross-functional partners.
• Serve as a model of creative excellence, elevating craft and storytelling across all outputs.
• Lead complex conversations with larger inter-agency teams.
• Guide teams through concepting, development, and execution, ensuring creative ideas meet the highest standard of quality.

Social-Centric Creative Vision:

• Champion innovation across social platformsdeveloping breakthrough ideas, content formats, and campaign approaches rooted in culture.
• Steer ideation and creative development across multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ensure concepts are tailored to each platform and audience while pushing boundaries creatively and strategically.

Creative Direction and Craft:

• Own the creative direction for assigned accounts, translating insights and brand truths into bold, resonant creative platforms.
• Run and oversee reviews, providing clear, actionable feedback to ensure excellence in execution.
• Ensure the creative output aligns with brand voice, agency standards, and cultural relevance.

Collaboration:

• Partner with Strategy, Account, C&E, Paid Media, Design, Influencer, and Program Management to deliver integrated, high-performing creative.
• Create alignment across teams, ensuring storytelling is cohesive across visual and written elements.
• Work closely with the ECD/GCD to maintain agency-wide creative standards and contribute to long-term creative vision.

Client Leadership:

• Act as the senior creative partner for clients, leading presentations, guiding strategic discussions, and providing decisive recommendations.
• Foster strong, trust-based client relationships that allow for courageous creative solutions.
• Navigate feedback and challenges with confidence, clarity, and collaboration.

Team Management:

• Build, mentor, and develop creative talent, offering coaching, support, and clear expectations.
• Conduct performance evaluations and help team members grow in their craft and careers.
• Cultivate a positive, inclusive, and high-performing creative culture.

Quality Control:

• Set and uphold uncompromising standards of creative excellence.
• Ensure teams deliver error-free work on time and on strategy.
• Maintain accountability for the creative product at every stage of the process.

Budget and Resource Management:

• Partner with Creative Leadership to manage creative resourcing, project scoping, and efficiency across teams.
• Make smart decisions that balance creativity, timelines, and operational needs.

Business Development:

• Lead creative concepting for major pitch opportunities.
• Shape pitch narratives, direct pitch teams, and present winning creative in partnership with agency leadership.

POD Leadership:

• Serve as the Creative Lead within the POD, owning the creative vision and output across client workstreams.
• Drive POD-level planning, scoping, resourcing, and workflow management.
• Represent the creative discipline in POD rituals (intakes, reviews, planning cycles, syncs) and ensure creative is strategically aligned.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience as a copywriter and creative leader within a social-first or advertising agency.
• Strong portfolio showcasing standout conceptual thinking, campaigns, and platform-native social work.
• Deep experience leading creative teams, presenting to senior clients, and guiding large-scale creative programs.
• Expertise in scriptwriting, storytelling, content creation, and multi-format writing.
• Experience in entertainment, streaming, or youth culture-driven brands is a significant plus.
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills, command of narrative, and a compelling presentation style.

Ideal Qualities:

• High energy, passionate, curious, confident, and tenacious in learning, coupled with the ability to navigate the nuances of different client teams.
• Must communicate quickly and accurately, think quickly or improvise, and present confidently.
• Should be a nimble self-starter and quickly adjust to internal and external teams in an ever-changing environment; identify opportunity with bias to action.
• You're proactive and naturally curious about the digital and social space, constantly looking for opportunities to evolve the department and advance the work.
• You are passionate about the work you do and treat your client's business as if it were your own.
• Have a track record of success in building strong relationships, leading teams, influencing others, and navigating client culture.
• You have a diverse and inclusive perspective, valuing different viewpoints and backgrounds within the team.
• You make others' jobs easier (no matter who they are or what they do)
• You create a positive and open environment.
• Your attention to detail is unmatched, ensuring that paid outputs meet the highest quality standards and align with client objectives.
• You know how to work smarter, not harder.
• You embrace generative AI and emerging technologies that enhance creativity

Benefits & Perks:

Movement Strategy's approach to the future of work: We embrace a remote culture and empower our employees to work wherever they feel most productive. To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have a partnership with WeWork which allows our employees to have a membership to any location nationwide. We recruit in our three main states of California, Colorado, and New York. We are open to recruiting candidates in these states: New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas and Arizona

As a leader in social advertising, we rely on the creativity of our people to deliver the best work for our clients. In return, we invest in our employees by offering them a diverse suite of benefits from best-in-class carriers, with enough choice and flexibility to keep our team and their families healthy and happy today and tomorrow.

• 100% employer contribution for health (base plan), vision, and dental
• 401K Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Short and Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance & AD&D
• Paid Parental Leave
• Fully-Remote Agency
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Take-As-You-Need Paid Time Off
• Take-As-You-Need Paid Mental Health Days
• 10 days minimum required off per year
• Company Paid Holidays + More