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Associate Creative Director (Writer)

at United Services Automobile Assn.

📍 San Antonio Home Office I Onsite 💰 $127K – $243K USD / year Posted April 16, 2026
Salary $127K – $243K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience mid
Exp. Years 8 or more years of related experience
Education Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
Category Content & Media

USAA is hiring an Associate Creative Director (Writer) to help develop and execute the creative vision across campaigns and projects. This role leads creative teams, provides day-to-day creative direction, and ensures work meets creative and brand standards.

  • Contribute to the creative vision and project quality standards
  • Oversee tactics for creative platforms and concepts
  • Provide day-to-day creative direction across multiple campaigns and projects
  • Partner with marketing partners to deliver on time, on budget, on brief
  • Lead onboarding curriculum and advocate creative best practices/tools/processes

The position focuses on writer/copy work and broader creative leadership, including idea platform and concept development, creative trends/technology research, and user-centered/digital design knowledge. It also involves onboarding curriculum creation and applying creative best practices and processes.

The ideal candidate is a creative leader with 8+ years of experience in creative development, design, copy, production, and/or media planning. They can execute a strong creative vision, lead teams to develop idea platforms and creative concepts, and direct multiple campaigns while meeting creative and brand standards.

Contributes to the creative vision and execution of quality standards for each projectProvides day-to-day creative direction for multiple campaigns and projectsLeads creation and implementation of on-boarding curriculum and processes for new team membersWorks closely with marketing partners to ensure all creative is produced on timeon budget and on briefSubject-matter-expert level knowledge of creative developmentdesigncopyproduction and/or media planning functions
Adobe
creative vision executionidea platformscreative conceptstactical executioncreative campaigns and projectscreative directionquality standardsbrand standardsmarketing partnerson time on budget on briefoperating rhythmmentoringon-boarding curriculumcreative best practicescreative trendsuser-centered experience designdigital designbrand developmentcopywritingAdobe
creative vision executionidea platformscreative conceptstactical execution of creative campaigns and projectsquality standards for projectscreative platformscreative direction for multiple campaigns and projectscreative and brand standardsknowledge of design practicesbrand developmentuser-centered experience designdigital designcreative trends researchcreative strategies researchcreative technologies researchmentoring and team leadershipon-boarding curriculum creationoperating rhythm for creative and project teamscreative best practicestools and processescopywritingAdobe
leading teamsproviding succinctactionable feedbackcreative leadershipcross-team collaboration with marketing partnersmentoring opportunitiesstakeholder managementproactive knowledge sharing
Industry Media
Job Function Lead writer-driven creative direction and campaign execution
Role Subtype Creative director writer
Associate Creative Director (Writer)creative visionbest-in-class idea platformscreative conceptstactical executioncreative campaignscreative projectsquality standardscreative platformscreative directioncreative and brand standardsmarketing partnerson timeon budgeton briefoperating rhythmknowledge and experience sharingmentoringon-boarding curriculumcreative best practicestools and processescreative trendscreative strategiescreative technologiesuser-centered experience designdigital designbrand developmentcopywritingAdobe

Must be based in San Antonio, TX and work in the office 4 days per week

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