Category Archives: Experience

CW/AD Team Wanted: Merkley+Partners, NYC

Kyle Daley, Director of Creative Services at Merkley+Partners in NYC is looking to hire a go-to, can-do team with 3-4 years experience. From Kyle: “Are you a big-ideas-driven duo looking to add some serious heft to an already impressive portfolio? At M+P you’ll own major projects on one of the most prestigious accounts on the planet: Mercedes-Benz. You’ll develop and produce lots of high profile TV, as well as digital, print, POS, radio, event, branded entertainment… the whole gamut. You’ll be a key part of our new business efforts. And you’ll get to apply your creative muscle to other big name accounts like Nutella, ALL Laundry Detergent, Smart Car, Armor All and more. If you’re interested in becoming an integral part of M+P’s smart and collaborative team, please send your portfolio to Kyle at the address below. Creative “Teams” only.

Send portfolio to: kdaley@merkleyandpartners.com

Todd Mitchell

Todd is a freelance copywriter/CD in Boston. Since his last post on MC over six years ago (05.10.10, so long ago), Todd’s been busy. Like, super busy. Including lighting the 26-foot high Jack Daniel’s Barrel Tree (above), which looks like inspiration for MC’s 2016 front yard holiday display. Yes, please. Welcome back, Mr. Mitchell.

Portfolio: toddmitchellhome.com

Coby Gerstner

Coby is a copywriter at R&R Partners in Salt Lake City, Utah. Previously, he was employee #3 at Beloved Shirts, who wrapped the above Bently as a watermelon. So funny. Don’t miss the rest of Coby’s Beloved shenanigans. Had MC laughing out loud for 10 minutes. Too good.

Portfolio: coby.co

Catharine Ogletree

Catharine is a freelance copywriter in Los Angeles (formerly at Omelet and Deutsch). So many killer projects for Target on her site, including The Dollhouse for Threshold and Best Snowday Ever in Los Angeles (above). Love it.

Portfolio: catharineogletree.com

Ben Tom George

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Ben is a copywriter/ACD at Zambezi in Los Angeles. Check out his site for Stance special edition Star Wars socks—which allowed fans to use the force when shopping without touching their screens. Awesome. Ben also wrote the tagline for Words With Friends, “May the best friend win.” If you’re a WWF junky like MC, that’s tagline rock stardom. But is Ben any good at WWF, you ask?! MC challenged him to a game (actually three), and can confirm: yes. He’s very good.

Portfolio: bentomgeorge.com

Enda Mac Nally

Enda is a copywriter at Cawley Nea \ TBWA in Dublin, Ireland. Lots of killer projects on his site for all kinds of clients, including Maynooth University, TG4, Irish Rail, and Absolut. Don’t miss his “Smartdriver” video for No Nonsense (above). Good idea.

Portfolio: enda.co

Dan Hofstadter

Dan is a freelance copywriter/CD in Los Angeles. Over the past 10+ years, he’s worked and freelanced everywhere good: BBDO, Goodby, Leo Burnett, CP+B, 72andSunny, Facebook, EVB, David+Goliath, sheesh. As one might expect, he’s got the portfolio to show for it. Just fantastic. Don’t miss The Great Paper Airplane Project for the Pima Air & Space Museum. Genius.

Portfolio: danhofstadter.com

CW Wanted: Hornall Anderson, Seattle

Amy Marshall, Talent Director at Hornall Anderson, is on the hunt for a copywriter. From Amy: “Hornall Anderson (Seattle office) is looking for a copywriter. Writers at a design shop? Say what? What will you write, you ask? All of the things.

If you haven’t thought about writing at a design shop before – twirl it around upstairs. We might be biased, but we offer opportunities to work with some amazing brands (like REI, Madison Square Garden, PepsiCo, Starbucks, Marmite, and Virgin Atlantic – and so many more) partnering with them to tell their stories. Naming, brand messaging/positioning, narrative, brand voice, print, packaging, digital, environments, campaign work – the variety of work is almost endless. We are strategy and concept driven with an equal amount of importance placed on craft. Work hard. Play hard. Respect.

And, our headquarters is in Seattle. C’mon. Amazing.”

To apply and see the full job description: Click here

You can also send your resume/portfolio (do not forget that portfolio) to Amy at: uscareers@hornallanderson.com

Tommy Crossen

Tommy is a junior copywriter at Marc USA in Chicago. His site currently has three agency projects and the rest is student work, which MC loves to see. (What kind of work did Tommy do as a student? How does that translate to his first agency gig?) Tommy is a graduate of Brainco’s online program, and might just be the first agency copywriter who attended a completely online portfolio school. Interesting!

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/tommycrossen

Chris Baier

Since his last post on MC just over five years ago (03.27.11), Chris has been busy. He became a CD, joined eBay, worked on a bunch of their site builds, wrote design playbooks for eBay and PayPal, and developed his own social media app called Hashtag Spy. Way overdue for an MC update.

Portfolio: chris-baier.com

Pete Kearney

Pete is a freelance writer/CD in NYC, previously ECD at Erwin/Penland. His site is deep (24 projects) and includes a crazy variety of killer work for Verizon—like the Verizon Wow Wall (above). Super impressive collection of projects. Dig it.

Portfolio: petekearney.com

Matt Everts

Matt is a copywriter/Associate “Big Kahuna” at FCB in Chicago. Going through his site, MC laughed out loud about a thousand times. So much hilarity. That includes the site itself, which is a menu for Gaylord Fine Indian Cuisine. Don’t miss his Joe Boxer Holiday spots (if you haven’t seen them already). Genius.

Portfolio: gaylordfineindiancuisine.com

Elliott Allen

Elliott is a freelance copywriter/CD in Charleston, South Carolina. (Previously at Vitro in San Diego.) Huge variety of clients on his site, including Toyo Tires, Asics, Taylor Guitars, Newcastle Brown Ale, Lifeproof, Boston Scientific, Massey Ferguson, and Petco (above). If you love pets (oh stop, you know you do) don’t miss his video “Petco Now Launch.” Adorbs.

Portfolio: elliottallencreative.com

Garrett Musar

Garrett is a junior copywriter at Publicis Seattle (as of April 2016, big congrats!). And yet, the index page of his Cargo site is so old. You’ll understand when you see it.

Portfolio: garrettmusar.com

Jordan Dontos

Jordan is a copywriter/ACD at Slingshot in Dallas. Since is last post on MC (09.27.13), he’s moved from Cargo to Squarespace (as many of us are doing) and added a bunch of new work to his site, including Terminix, Texas Tourism and Taco Bueno (above). Definitely time for an update!

Portfolio: jordandontos.com

Copywriter Wanted: Elevation Church, NC

Ok, this is a new one for MC. Julie Zolio, Staffing Manager at Elevation Church in North Carolina, is on the hunt for a copywriter with a special gift. From Julie: “Signs you may be our next copywriter at Elevation Church:

You come up with at least 30 options when writing a headline before you find what you’re looking for.
You know the difference between imply and infer.
You think long and write short.
You can hold your own in a surprisingly competitive game of 4-square.
You understand copy and design work together, but copy wears the pants in the relationship.
You have range – headlines to tweets to paragraphs of web copy – bring it on.
You have skin of the thicker variety.
You have experience you can show in the form of writing samples.
You don’t remember the last time you quit something.

If you think this is you, here’s the next step in your interview:
Describe Elevation Church in 100 words or less.

Email your writing and a resume to: julie.zollo@elevationchurch.org

A little more about us: Led by Pastor Steven Furtick, Elevation Church is based in Charlotte, NC, with multiple locations in the greater Charlotte area and beyond. Named #1 mid-size place to work by the Charlotte Business Journal for three years running and on Fortune’s list for Best Places to Work for Millennials, Elevation Church currently has new opportunities for passionate, innovative, Jesus-loving people to join the family. If you’re interested in seeing God use you in ways you never imagined, you might just want to apply right now.”

elevationchurch.org/jobs

TW/IG @elevationchurch

Senior Copywriter Wanted: Eleven Inc., San Francisco

Lindsay Vriavas, Director of Recruiting at Eleven Inc. in San Francisco, is on the hunt for a senior writer—and she’s written the post herself. (Love it.) From Lindsay: “Hi. I’m Lindsay. I’m an agency recruiter, not a copywriter. You’re going to have to forgive my lack of eloquence and poor attempts at snarky copywriting antics in this post. I don’t get paid to write. I get paid to find the people that can write. That can write waaaaay better than that other writer at that other agency. So we here at Eleven Inc can be the best at writing ads and creating awesome work.

Enough about me, lets talk about you.

You are a Senior Writer with, like, 6-7ish years of experience. You are someone who can think up ideas that transform brands. Someone who likes crafting and playing with words. You are able to own a room and present to clients, and dangit, you really like what you do! You play well with others; you can work in a dog friendly environment; you can see yourself (or already are) living in San Francisco; you want to work in an agency where you have a voice and a visible platform; you thrive off working across media agnostic campaigns; and ultimately are most interested in telling stories and making prodigious branding and campaign messages.

Eleven is a good agency with good people. We have design in our roots, tremendous strategy chops, media in our toolkit, and genuinely like our people to have a life outside of the office.

Ask around, you’ll hear good things. … and PS, we work on some great clients too. i.e. Apple, Citrix, Dignity Health, Oakley, Virgin America and more …

Please send books and interest (and lasagna recipes) directly to me: lindsayvriavas@eleveninc.com

Mila Golubov

Mila is a copywriter/ACD at VML in NYC. All kinds of cool projects on her site—but as a long-time resident of the Bay Area, MC has to give a special shout-out to Burger King Proud Whopper. Such a simple, bold, genius idea. Can’t help but make you proud to be in advertising. Love it.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/milagolubov

Chris Mead

Chris is a senior copywriter at Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles, previously at EVB. Since his last post on MC four years ago (03.01.2010, just after graduating from Miami Ad School), he’s been busy. Cool projects on his site for Toyota, Orbit, Skittles (don’t miss Badass Rainbows, so funny), and The Amanda Foundation (above). Way past time for an update.

Portfolio: cwmead.com

Sharath Verghese

Sharath is a copywriter at Creature in Seattle. Since his last post on MC (11.10.14), he’s added a bunch of new projects to his site including awesomeness for Blue Nile (above) and DoubleDown Casino. If you like cats, don’t miss Sharath’s 15-second pre-roll spot “Kitty Glitter” for DoubleDown. Slow-motion falling cats … with diamonds.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/sharathverghese

Amanda Caldari

Amanda is a copywriter at Rokkan in NYC. (Her site was submitted by Jeff Samson, CD at Rokkan, big ups!) Love her campaign for Birthday Wishes (above)—a non-profit that throws birthday parties for homeless kids. So good. And don’t miss her Eyeconic campaign featuring real paid actors as testimonial spokespeople. Imagine!

Portfolio: amandacaldari.com

Alex Basak & Tara Iannotti

Alex (writer) and Tara (art director) are a creative team at 360i in NYC. Check out the animated series “How to Turn a Meeting into Eating” they made for the new Subway (above, featured on both of their sites), for which they did everything but the animation—including performing and recording the music, doing the voiceover, etc. Love that.

Alex’s portfolio: alexbasak.com

Tara’s portfolio: taraiannotti.com

Casey Beck

Casey is a copywriter at RPA in Los Angeles. All kinds of killer projects for BMW on her site from her time at kbs+ in NYC. Don’t miss her new 360-degree music video for the Honda Civic featuring Moses Sumney (great track). NOTE: You need to watch it on Chrome or Firefox to get the 360-degree-ness. So fun.

Portfolio: writecaseywrite.com

Copywriter Wanted: Merkley+Partners, NYC

Kyle Daley, Director of Creative Services at Merkley+Partners, is looking for a writer. From Kyle: “Merkley+Partners in NYC is on the hunt for a copywriter, 2-3 yrs. experience to work on a variety of accounts including Mercedes-Benz, ALL Laundry Detergent, Smart Car, Nutella, Armor ALL and more. This truly is a great job, with great opportunity to create brand messages in TV, digital content, environmental design, print, POS, radio, event, branded entertainment, etc. If you have a portfolio full of conceptual and unexpected ideas, can write some killer lines and copy, and really like to work in a collaborative nature on integrated campaigns for some of the best known brands out there, please send your portfolio to the address below.”

Send your portfolio to Kyle at: kdaley@merkleyandpartners.com

Check out Merkley+Partners site: Click here

Alf Zapata

Alf is a copywriter at The Richards Group in Dallas. Lots of hilarity on his site, including the above post for Chick-fil-A, which is so stupid it’s genius. Alf also has one of the most delicious sizzle reels in the history of sizzle reels. You can almost smell it.

Portfolio: alfonso-zapata.squarespace.com

Copywriter Wanted: Firehouse, Dallas

Firehouse in Dallas is on the hunt for a killer copywriter. From Firehouse: We just need 1. Ambitious creative boutique seeks one writer. Mid level to senior-ish. Must be genetically pre-disposed to working hard and not being a jerk. Perks include adequate pay, high standards and the pride that comes from not having to work at a crappy agency. Oh, and snacks. We have plenty of those.

Send a great portfolio (preferably yours) to: creative@firehouseagency.com

More info at: firehouseagency.com/lets-talk

Nick Elliott

Nick is a freelance senior copywriter/ACD in New York City. Before copywriting, he was in book publishing and online journalism (Chronicle Books, Thrillist, etc.), which is fabulous experience/training for the ad/marketing world. Lots of cool projects on his site for Uniqlo, Mercedes-Benz and others. Don’t miss DefundRefund—his side project funding Planned Parenthood in honor of the GOP politicians vowing to defund it.

Portfolio: njecreative.com

Emma Shannon

Emma is a senior copywriter/ACD at beauty@gotham, McCann Worldgroup in NYC. She has helped kill not one, but two of the most famous taglines in the history of modern advertising. She helped put “Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline” to bed for “Make It Happen.” Same with Wisk’s “Ring Around The Collar” for “Fight Stains with Science.” What’s #3 going to be???

Portfolio: emmashannon.com

Copywriter/ACD/CD Wanted: Firstborn, NYC

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Firstborn in NYC is on the hunt for a conceptual Copywriter/ACD/CD. From Firstborn: “We’re looking for an ACD/CD with a deep understanding and appreciation for conceptual thinking alongside a willingness to explore new ideas as they relate to creating branded media—long form, short form and everything in-between. Along with a background in copywriting and 6+ years of experience in the industry (some as an ACD/CD), you’ll have a banging portfolio to back it up and know and appreciate the work it takes to arrive at a truly good idea. You wear multiple hats, juggle projects and thrive in a fast-paced, creative environment.”

Email your resume/portfolio to: jobs.writer@firstborn.com

Link to job on Firstborn’s careers page: firstborn.com/careers/52/acd-cd

Copywriter Intern Wanted: Firstborn, NYC

Firstborn in NYC is on the hunt for a Copywriter Intern. (What an amazing first gig, sheesh.) From Firstborn: “Firstborn is looking for a Copywriter Intern to join our team of pun enthusiasts, grammar geeks and all around word nerds. We want someone who can help generate big campaign ideas, but can also craft some awesome copy for apps, websites and even new business pitches.”

Tell us a little bit about yourself and email your resume/portfolio to: jobs.intern@firstborn.com

Link to internship on Firstborn’s careers page: firstborn.com/careers/53/copy-intern