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# Associate Creative Director, Writer at Walz Tetrick Advertising

- **Company:** Walz Tetrick Advertising
- **Location:** Mission, KS
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/wtads/cdfcb079-923d-48c2-9e34-079ac743e910

## Job description

We’re looking for an Associate Creative Director, Writer who is equal parts thinker, 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, write, present and help shape ideas from brief through execution while raising the quality of the work and the people around you. We’re looking for strong creative instincts, exceptional writing craft and the judgment to know when an idea needs to be pushed further.

## What You'll Do

- Lead concept development across integrated campaigns, brand platforms and ongoing client work.
- Partner with art directors, designers and other agency partners to turn business challenges into strong creative ideas.
- Write and shape work across video, digital, social, experiential, web and print, from campaign platforms and messaging systems to headlines, scripts and brand voice.
- Make complicated subjects simple, human and emotionally relevant without losing strategic intent.
- Bring a strong point of view to the brief, identify opportunities and help push ideas beyond the expected.
- Lead creative presentations and sell in the work with confidence, connecting the idea back to the strategy, audience and business opportunity.
- Guide work through revisions and production while protecting the strength of the idea.
- Mentor other creatives through thoughtful feedback and contribute to pitches, proactive opportunities and work beyond your primary accounts.
- Stay curious about culture, technology and new ways brands can connect with people.

## What We're Looking For

- 7 to 10+ years of agency or comparable creative experience with a portfolio that shows strong conceptual thinking, exceptional writing craft and work across multiple channels.
- The ability to move between big campaign ideas and highly crafted executions with strong creative judgment throughout.
- Strong storytelling and editing instincts with the ability to turn complex information into clear, engaging creative.
- Confidence presenting and defending creative thinking with internal teams and clients.
- Experience partnering closely with art directors, designers and production resources from concept through execution, with 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

## 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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