Creative Director/Sr Copywriter- Fluent in Mandarin

Start Date: March 9, 2026

Hours: 20- 30 hours
Hourly Rate: $90

Location: Remote- Los Angeles Based- PST Hours

About the Role

We are looking for a visionary Creative Director with deep copywriting expertise and a fluent understanding of Asian consumer culture. This is a senior-level creative leadership role for someone who doesn't just translate words — they translate meaning, emotion, and cultural nuance. You'll be the creative voice that ensures our brand resonates authentically across Asian markets, with a particular focus on Mandarin-speaking audiences.

What You'll Do

Creative Leadership

• Lead the conceptual development of campaigns, scripts, and brand narratives from brief to final execution.
• Serve as the senior creative voice on all projects, setting the bar for quality, originality, and strategic alignment.
• Collaborate with art directors, designers, strategists, and production teams to bring ideas to life.
• Present and sell creative work confidently to internal stakeholders and clients.

Copywriting & Scripting

• Write, edit, and refine scripts, taglines, long-form copy, and campaign concepts at a senior level.
• Adapt and transcreate copy — not just translate — ensuring tone, humor, rhythm, and brand voice carry across languages and formats.
• Translate scripts and key copy lines from English into Mandarin (Simplified and/or Traditional), maintaining cultural resonance and creative intent.

Asian Market Lens

• Evaluate all creative work through a culturally informed Asian market perspective, identifying opportunities and flagging missteps before they reach market.
• Advise on cultural sensitivities, consumer behavior, values, and trends relevant to Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and diaspora communities.
• Identify localization needs beyond language — including visual cues, storytelling styles, humor, and platform preferences 
• Stay current on trends, pop culture, and the evolving media landscape across key Asian markets.

What You Bring

• 3+ years of copywriting experience, with at least 1 year in a creative leadership or CD role.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating senior-level conceptual thinking and exceptional writing across multiple formats (broadcast, digital, social, experiential).
• Native or near-native fluency in Mandarin (written and spoken), with demonstrated experience writing professional or creative copy in Mandarin.
• Deep, lived understanding of Asian — particularly Chinese — consumer culture, values, and media habits.
• Proven ability to lead creative reviews and give clear, constructive direction to creative teams.
• Experience working on campaigns targeting Asian markets or Asian-American audiences is strongly preferred.
• Bilingual creative portfolio showing both English and Mandarin work is a plus.

We Are Rosie provides strategic consulting and talent solutions for the marketing industry. We partner with more than 200 of the world’s biggest brands and agencies to help them solve unique marketing challenges with the best people, swiftly and at scale. Founded by former advertising executive Stephanie Nadi Olson in 2018, We Are Rosie is on a mission to redefine how marketing works, with an inclusive, human-centric approach that’s better for business and better for marketers. Our company has been recognized as an industry trailblazer and earned many accolades, including being named to the 2023 Global Top 100 Inspiring Workplaces, the Inc. 5000 2022, and Adweek’s Fastest Growing Agencies in 2021.
 

We Are Rosie is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, marital status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.