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Role Description

Zeus Jones is looking for a midcareer or senior creative to join our brand innovation agency. This is a hands-on role for someone who knows how to turn sharp thinking into clear, compelling work—and help other creatives do the same.

• You’re a strong storyteller and writer first, with real experience across brand, marketing, and content.
• You have great taste and know when something’s working and when it’s not.
• You’re comfortable guiding teams toward better outcomes without needing to be the loudest voice in the room.
• You’re fluent in generative AI tools and genuinely excited about how they’re changing the future of brands.
• This role sits at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and execution.
• You’ll help shape ideas, write a lot, lead creative development, and partner closely with strategists, designers, technologists, and clients.

Qualifications

• 5–15 years of experience in creative roles such as brand, advertising, content, editorial, experiential, or adjacent fields.
• A strong portfolio of writing-led work (brand storytelling, campaigns, long-form, short-form, or all of the above).
• Proven ability to guide other creatives and raise the quality of work around you.
• Excellent taste and the confidence to stand behind your decisions.
• Comfort working with ambiguity—loose briefs, evolving inputs, real-world constraints.
• Hands-on experience using generative tools (especially AI) as part of your creative process.
• A forward-looking point of view on how brands, creativity, and technology are evolving.
• Strong collaboration skills and low ego—you care more about the work than the credit.

Requirements

• Write and shape brand narratives, campaign ideas, positioning, messaging, and content.
• Move comfortably between big-picture storytelling and sharp marketing copy.
• Edit ruthlessly—your own work and others’—to make ideas clearer, stronger, and more persuasive.
• Help turn strategy into language people actually understand and care about.
• Guide and mentor others creatively—helping them level up their thinking, craft, and confidence.
• Lead creative workstreams or major portions of projects from early ideas through execution.
• Give clear, constructive feedback that improves the work and makes strategic sense.
• Help maintain a high bar for taste, clarity, and originality across the team.
• Stay plugged into culture—not as a trend hunter, but as someone who understands how people think, talk, and behave.
• Bring a point of view on what matters now (and what doesn’t).
• Use cultural insights to make brand ideas feel relevant, human, and specific—not generic or “brand-y.”
• Actively use generative tools (AI writing, concepting, synthesis, prototyping, etc.) in your creative process.
• Think beyond efficiency: explore how these tools change what brands can be, not just how work gets made.
• Help shape new ways of working that combine human judgment, taste, and creativity with machine capability.
• Be a partner in defining what “good” looks like in an AI-influenced creative future.
• Present work clearly and confidently to clients.
• Help clients understand ideas, not just react to them.
• Build trust by showing good judgment, curiosity, and follow-through.

Benefits

• Strong benefits.
• Flexible time off.
• The chance to work with smart, kind people on genuinely interesting problems.

Company Description

Zeus Jones is a brand innovation agency. We help organizations figure out who they are, what they stand for, and how that shows up in real, tangible ways—products, stories, systems, and experiences.

• We work across industries and categories.
• The problems are often messy.
• The expectations are high.
• The work is collaborative, fast-moving, and opinionated.
• This role is based in Minneapolis–St. Paul or remote, with regular travel for company core weeks (quarterly) and client work (1–4 times per quarter).
• For Minneapolis-St. Paul employees, we’re hybrid, with Tuesday–Thursday in the office.