HUMDINGER & SONS IS SEEKING AN

ACD (WRITER)

TO HELP LEAD FROM OUR MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE IN CREATING SOME KICKASS CAMPAIGNS FOR SOME KICKASS TECH CLIENTS

We’re looking for a senior conceptual writer who can lead an idea, not just write to one.

The right person has a strong advertising background, sharp strategic instincts, and the ability to turn complex briefs into clear, compelling creative ideas. You understand how messaging fits into the bigger picture and can shape a cohesive story across channels, audiences, and the customer journey.

This is a leadership role for someone who still loves to write. You’ll help establish the creative direction, give multidisciplinary teams a strong conceptual foundation, and guide ideas from the initial brief through final execution. You’ll work closely with creative directors, designers, strategists, and account teams to ensure that words, design, and experience come together as one complete idea.

You should be equally comfortable analyzing a competitive landscape, leading a brainstorm, shaping a client presentation, writing a script, and sharpening a headline.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• In collaboration with your creative ACD partner, you will support the development and delivery of creative solutions that are rooted in insights, from content work to larger campaign initiatives.

• You are a maker - your main focus is ideation and creation, both at a high speed and volume

Supporting your G/CD, mentor and manage a full creative team, including designers, writers, and creators.

• Support managing and approving the work of your assigned creative team.

• Collaborate cross-departmentally to develop a high variety of content that meets creative and strategic criteria (client briefs, feedback, client KPIs)

• Ideate and conceptualize high-engaging content that reflects the brand’s aesthetic and style guidelines; maintaining aesthetic, tone, and brand consistency across all deliverables

• Fosters positive relationships among the internal brand teams, the creative department, direct reports, other agency partners, and clients.

• Acts as quality control and brand steward for junior level team members and liaison between your team and your senior manager

• Co-lead /lead brainstorms and actively participate during inter-agency ideation sessions.

Experience / Knowledge Required:

• 6+ years of advertising experience, developing and creating digital strategies and campaigns.

• A strong design aesthetic with writing sense with proven conceptual and brainstorming skills

• Ability to carry out a concept from start to completion, and guide those on your team to do the same. Executing and delegating as needed.

• Strong knowledge of Platform/Industry/creative trends and digital best practices. Must be able to translate this knowledge to in articulating and strategically applying to creative executions.

• Experience evaluating teams with the ability to supervise and train employees on an ongoing basis.

• A talent for wearing multiple brand hats and switching easily among brand voices.

• Simultaneously manage multiple projects with tight deadlines

Bonus Round

• Motion/3D skills

• Front end skills

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Perks

• Huge opportunity to work with some of the coolest startups and emerging tech companies in the world.

• Profit sharing

• Great benefits with a fun crew in an awesome North Loop office.

• Working with startups and globally recognized brands.

• Getting in at ground level with Humdinger. We're hot. Srsly.