Associate Creative Director, Copy & Concepts.

About Pursuit

Our mission is to create economic transformation. By training low-income adults to launch & advance careers as software engineers, we help our Fellows go from earning $18,000 to over $90,000 starting salary on average, adding an estimated $2M in lifetime earnings.

Pursuit partners with leading companies like Blackstone, USV, Citi, Peloton, & Uber to employ Fellows in career-defining engineering roles & supports them with on-the-job training to ensure potential translates to performance.

Since 2013, Pursuit has created $1B in total lifetime wage gains, creating lasting economic mobility that spans generations.

Pursuits proven solution is built on two interconnected components : training (which includes community development, Core pre-job training, & Commit on-the-job training) & a financial product (known as Bond).

However, growing training alone will not meet the magnitude of need nor solve new societal challenges ahead. The typical expectation is to expand our training to other cities, but this will not come anywhere close to creating good jobs for millions of low-income Americans.

Instead, our strategy for scaled impact is to evolve our financial product & create tools for other organizations, jobs, & places.

We believe that this will not only create good jobs for millions of low-income Americans but will also generate a new trillion-dollar market directly tied to results in the long term.

About the Role

As the Associate Creative Director, Copy & Concepts, you will be responsible for helping to develop big concepts & ideas for Pursuit & use your writing skills to help the organization advance its goals.

Youll work closely with senior leadership, the creative team, & the partnerships & business development teams to develop both abstract & technical concepts.

Writing will be your main tool for storytelling, positioning, & sales, & youll work to translate forward-thinking creative concepts into a full scope of assets, whether its a grant proposal, marketing materials, website, script, or other assets.

Responsibilities

• The Associate Creative Director, Copy & Concepts will help conceptualize, write for, & build big ideas & forward-thinking creative concepts for the organization.
• Interpret creative possibilities within briefs & turn points into persuasive concepts.
• Help develop concept strategies & push the brand narrative.
• Develop language & copy across different media & forms, including grant proposals, presentations, campaigns, partnership & business development materials, white papers, videos, ads, website, & email.
• Support product storytelling across the integrated components as well as the organization as a business.
• Support thought leadership as needed through scripts, events, blogs, etc.

What you need to be considered for the position :

• Demonstrated creativity & conceptual thinking.
• Verbal agility & command of language.
• Ability to take rough ideas & transform them into a compelling, powerful copy & presentations.
• Understanding of how to develop & deploy different messaging strategies & tones / voices to align with the customer & stakeholder needs.
• Ability to take feedback & work collaboratively.
• Able to present concepts & underlying strategic thinking to leaders.
• 7-10+ years experience working with established brands, building or extending campaigns, collaborating with executive level leadership teams.

Where youll work :

• On site, 3-4 days per week in our Long Island City Office. Remote Fridays!
• We are working on updating our office policy, & some roles may require 4+ days on site per week.

Compensation & Benefits :

Compensation for this role is $150-170k, plus incentive compensation based on team & organizational goals.

The compensation range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles & recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.

If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated to you as a candidate.

Pursuit offers :

• Great culture where transparency, respect, teamwork, & kindness are valued
• Competitive compensation in base, plus bonus & a full benefits package
• 401k Match
• Unlimited PTO & an all-Pursuit summer break the last week of August & a week-long holiday the last week of December
• Flexible, hybrid work schedule with catered lunches once a week & delicious snacks
• An opportunity to work at the intersection of tech & social impact, & make a direct impact on the communities of those we serve.

Pursuit values diversity :

Our team has a wide range of backgrounds & experiences, & we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization.

We welcome new perspectives & affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.