Copywriter

SimpsonScarborough; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

SimpsonScarborough seeks a talented copywriter to join our fully remote team. You'll create compelling copy for media campaigns and brand narratives, collaborate with peers, and contribute to high-quality creative work. This role requires at least two years of agency experience and a strong portfolio, making time management and collaboration key to success.

Qualifications

• At least two years of agency copywriting experience required.
• A competitive portfolio of creative work from the past two years.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Write compelling headlines, copy, and 'calls to action' for various deliverables.
• Collaborate with peers to sharpen concepts and executional details.
• Provide support with words and phrases to other teams.

Skills

Time Management

Copywriting

Collaboration

Education

Relevant Work Experience

Job description

At SimpsonScarborough, we spend our days building brands that endure, inspire, and elevate the all-important work of colleges and universities in shaping our future. Recognized as a leader in the higher ed marketing industry, our company runs a fully remote team of approximately 65 employees coast to coast.

We are a growing team looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic new member. We expect a lot from our team members and champion their successes.

Requirements

• Write compelling headlines, copy, and ‘calls to action’ for a range of brand creative deliverables, including media campaigns, social media content, printed materials, environmental branding, audio ads
• Write brand narratives that support and sell the underlying creative idea of a brand or campaign concept to the client and stakeholders. Contribute fresh, conceptual ideas that communicate a client’s strategic message in bold and engaging ways.
• Define brand voices that are joyfully disruptive and unapologetically distinctive in the market.
• Produce and deliver consistently high-quality creative work that’s smart, strategic, and human in a way that communicates the real emotional benefits of the messages our clients need to communicate. That’s how SimpsonScarborough produces results.
• Create effective verbal systems for brands and campaigns, as well as rubrics for use via brand guidelines.
• Work collaboratively with peers to sharpen conceptual ideas and executional details so that we’re consistently delivering high-value, high-impact creative work that the agency can take pride in.
• Provide words and phrases to collaborators on other teams who could use some support from a professional writer to make their work as powerful as possible for our clients. Share your contributions in these exchanges with your manager for visibility.
  
  

Qualifications

• At least two years of agency copywriting experience is required.
• Any combination of education and relevant work experience.
• A competitive portfolio of creative work (copywriting) from the past two years.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and escalate deviations and changes when appropriate.
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and, at times, stressful environment.
• Comfortable collaborating with remote project teams nationwide.