Job Description

About Endeavor Global Marketing:

Endeavor Global Marketing (EGM) is the cultural marketing agency within the Endeavor network, which includes preeminent talent agency WME, sports and fashion industry pioneer IMG, and other leading organizations from across the cultural landscape.

Its position within Endeavor provides EGM and its employees with unrivaled cultural insight, access, and understanding of the audiences the world’s leading brands need to reach.

Our approach to cultural marketing generates elevated ad campaigns, relevant PR strategies, humanized digital marketing platforms, and unparalleled experiences, with more than 9,000 experiential events around the world annually. In short, we build brand- and business-driving platforms and programs, rooted in human and cultural insights.

Being a part of the team that delivers these solutions means being a part of the agency that is defining the new frontier of marketing. For anyone with the drive to seek out new challenges and the commitment to craft effective solutions shaped by insight and defined by excellence, the opportunities for growth and exploration are endless.

Endeavor Global Marketing is now more than 700 employees strong globally, providing expertise in brand strategy and activation, advertising, digital and social marketing, public relations, sports and entertainment marketing, social impact marketing, influencer strategy, experiential marketing, original content and business intelligence. We work with major brand clients including Audi, AB InBev, Marriott, Visa, Coca-Cola, Papa John’s, Bumble, E. & J. Gallo Winery, and Microsoft, among more than 200 others.

Overview:

This position is for an Associate Creative Director- Copywriter role at Endeavor Global Marketing working on the Creative team.

We’re looking for an Associate Creative Director, Copywriter. More than just amazing headlines, we need someone who understands how to create a full consumer journey for an experiential event and mentor young creatives to do the same.

We’re looking for a type-A concepting machine—someone who can not only think on their feet and come up with great programming ideas, but organize those thoughts into a compelling story. Someone who can see the big idea, but not miss the little details. And finally, someone who can translate great creative and present to clients.

What it takes to be successful here:

We are a rapidly growing company with ample opportunity for those who seize it. We need someone who doesn’t need a lot of hand-holding but can also seamlessly integrate into a team. Our projects are fast-paced and challenging. It truly takes a village to go after the award-winning, large-scale work that we do.

The job:

This Associate Creative Director will report directly to the Group Creative Director and will provide internal resources needed to deliver a broad mix of capabilities including, but not limited to: 

• Experiential Strategy Concepting & Ideation
• Storytelling
• Proposal and RFP Response

Key Job Roles

The Associate Creative Director, Copywriting has the potential of managing 4-5 team members in the Creative Solutions department and is responsible for:

Team Leadership / Mentorship

• Maintaining high standards on program copy
• Responding to creative requests that entail discussing creative options and deadlines; working with Traffic Manager to secure, brief and manage resources to assure deadlines are met; recruiting new resources to spark creative thinking
• Working directly with Art Directors, Environmental Designers, and our video team
• Maintaining direction over assigned internal copywriters to fulfill project demands

Presentation Skills / Concepting / Proposal Development

• (Client-focused) Supporting RFP responses through the brainstorming and development of conceptual ideas while helping guide the development of presentation copy 
• Express ideas clearly and enthusiastically to internal peers and clients alike through written and verbal formats
• Direct development of assigned presentation materials on all levels, such as brainstorming, presentation copy, and consumer-facing copy. 

Experience and Technical Requirements

Minimum Required Experience

• Complete and up-to-date online portfolio
• Eight (8) or more years equivalent work experience a Copywriter
• At least three (3) years of experiential related work
• Proven experience managing creative processes and a team of direct reports
• Excellent presentation skills with ability to lead a discovery session with a client, present concepts and tell the story of how the concept meets the client's objective both verbally and through written proposals
• Must be able to multi-task in a highly productive, fast-paced environment
• Must be proficient in MS Office, Word, and PPT