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# Associate Creative Director at Walz Tetrick Advertising

- **Company:** Walz Tetrick Advertising
- **Location:** Mission, KS
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/wtads/13d9e1b7-bfab-438e-a2c2-4624fd1159c7

## Job description

WTA is hiring an Associate Creative Director, Art Director who is equal parts conceptual thinker, visual storyteller and creative leader. This person will play an important role across our growing healthcare portfolio while also contributing to larger campaigns, new business and creative opportunities across the agency. This is a hands on role for someone who still loves making the work. You’ll concept, design, direct and present ideas from brief through execution while helping raise the quality of the work and the people around you. We’re looking for strong conceptual instincts, exceptional visual taste and the judgment to know when an idea or execution needs to be pushed further.

## What You'll Do

- Lead concept development and art direction across campaigns, brand platforms and ongoing client work.
- Partner with writers, designers and other agency partners to turn business challenges into strong creative ideas.
- Establish the visual direction and carry it through execution across campaigns, brand systems, visual identities, logos, digital experiences and other client needs.
- Lead creative presentations and sell in the work with confidence, connecting ideas back to strategy, audience and business opportunity.
- Guide production partners and protect the quality of the work through execution.
- Mentor other creatives and contribute to pitches, proactive opportunities and work across the agency.

## What We're Looking For

- 7 to 10+ years of agency or comparable creative experience with a portfolio that shows strong conceptual thinking, visual storytelling and craft across multiple channels.
- The ability to move between big campaign ideas and execution with strong creative judgment throughout.
- A strong eye for typography, composition, photography, film and design systems with a clear point of view on what makes work feel distinctive.
- Confidence presenting and defending creative thinking with internal teams and clients.
- Experience partnering closely with writers from concept through execution and the ability to move between concepting, art direction and hands on design when the work calls for it.
- Experience working through production and collaborating effectively with photographers, filmmakers and other creative partners.
- A collaborative mindset and a genuine interest in making the work and the people around you better.
- Experience with health systems, pharmaceutical brands, insurance or medical and legal review is a plus, but it is not required. More important is your ability to understand complex subject matter, find the human idea inside it and create work that makes people want to care.

What Success Looks Like

- Becoming a trusted creative lead across key assignments and accounts.
- Raising the quality of the work you touch.
- Building strong partnerships throughout the agency and earning client confidence.

## Why This Role Matters

We want someone who can help raise the standard of the work, strengthen the people around them and contribute to a growing creative department.

If you’re an ambitious creative who wants to make great work, have a real voice in the process and the opportunity to help build something, we’d like to meet you.

## About Walz Tetrick Advertising

Walz Tetrick is a full-service marketing, creative and media agency in Kansas City. The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce named Walz Tetrick one of its Top 10 Small Businesses, honoring our resilience, innovation and values. Though we’ve been around since 1967, we approach every opportunity with the same zeal we did when we were just getting started. We look for associates, partners and clients who share that enthusiasm and appreciate our all-in approach to brand activation. With each day, we harness more tools and information to illuminate our way.

Walz Tetrick offers an office culture like no other. CEO Charlie Tetrick values his employees and creates a uniquely positive and supportive culture. We work and play as a family. Our current work hours are “in office” Monday through Thursday with an option to “work from anywhere” on Friday.

We’re proud of our strong benefits package that includes a 401(k) with an employer match, long-term disability and dental insurance. We offer excellent health insurance, and the agency pays 90 percent of the employees’ premiums with an option to add a spouse and family. We have a generous paid time off policy that includes days to volunteer at a charity of your choice.

If you’re passionate, strategic, collaborative and kind, with a dose of scrappy thrown in, we want to meet you.

Some job search engines, like Indeed, assign salaries to these postings arbitrarily, and cannot be confirmed as accurate.

## About Walz Tetrick Advertising

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Walz Tetrick Advertising (WTA) is a full-service marketing and advertising agency that helps brands grow through data-driven strategy, bold creative, and performance-focused execution.
- **Entity Type**: Private (independent, not publicly traded)
- **Headquarters**: Mission, Kansas, USA (Kansas City metro area)
- **Founded**: 1967
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (the name suggests founding partners Walz and Tetrick, but individual names are not listed in public sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Marketing and advertising (full-service agency)
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C organizations, including enterprise and mid-market clients across healthcare, senior living, sports, higher education, retail, restaurants, entertainment, hospitality, finance, professional services, industrial, and nonprofit sectors.
- **Mission/purpose**: To help ambitious brands outsmart the competition and move forward with purpose, creating lasting impact through strategy, craft, and collaboration.

## Products & Services
WTA provides a full suite of integrated marketing and advertising services:
- **Brand Strategy & Creative**: Data-driven insights, bold creative concepts, and campaign development that make clients "look bigger and feel more local."
- **Performance Marketing**: Account management and performance-focused execution to drive measurable bottom-line results.
- **Media & Digital**: Multi-channel planning and buying, including digital, social, and traditional media.
- **Full-Service Campaign Management**: End-to-end execution from alignment through delivery, tailored to each client’s goals.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total employees: 127 (per Built In); more than 70 active clients across diverse industries.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors (independent, self-funded). Notable clients include Sporting Kansas City, J. Rieger & Co., CoxHealth, and IVX Health.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 50 years of continuous operation; the company states it "year after year" invests in talent, technology, and creative tools; recent featured work spans multiple sectors, indicating ongoing client acquisition and retention.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Independence**: Fiercely independent and privately held, allowing nimble decision-making and client-centric priorities without outside shareholder pressure.
- **Longevity & Experience**: More than five decades of brand-building experience, with a track record of helping clients across 13+ industries.
- **Integrated Approach**: Cross-disciplinary teams without silos or egos, uniting strategy, creative, and performance marketing under one roof.
- **Data-Driven Ethos**: A focus on insights and customized, data-informed campaigns that "outsmart" rather than outspend competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued Investment in Talent & Technology**: Growing the team and adopting new creative tools to elevate work and results.
- **Expanding Industry Reach**: Actively serving new sectors while deepening existing client relationships (healthcare, sports, food & beverage, etc.).
- **Performance-Driven Growth**: Prioritizing measurable outcomes and brand differentiation in a fast-moving market.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative and ego-free environment; employees from all disciplines work together toward a shared mission of moving brands forward.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid and on-site roles available (conflicting reports: Lever lists a hybrid role, while Built In describes an "OnSite Workspace" – likely role-dependent). HQ is in Mission, Kansas.
- **Perks & Benefits** (per Built In):
  - Generous parental leave
  - Health insurance, dental insurance, and FSA
  - Free snacks and drinks
  - Customized development tracks for career growth
  - 401(K) and life insurance
  - Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid volunteer time

## Sources
1. [wtads.com](https://wtads.com/)
2. [wtads.com/about](https://wtads.com/about)
3. [jobs.lever.co/wtads](https://jobs.lever.co/wtads/)
4. [wtads.com/careers](https://wtads.com/careers/)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/walz-tetrick-advertising)

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