Copywriter

Sledge; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible hours

Direct access to marketing team

Shape brand voice

Job summary

Sledge is hiring a Copywriter to own how Sledge sounds across everything with text. This role reports to the marketing team. The copy should be plain-spoken, confident, direct, and written by you—no AI-generated copy. You will join early and help shape the brand voice for a contractor audience.

Fully remote role with a fast-moving launch timeline, working closely with the marketing and founding team to maintain consistency and clarity across all materials.

Qualifications

• Must have a strong portfolio of writing you authored yourself.
• Sharp editing eye with concise, one-idea sentences.

Responsibilities

• Write and edit blog posts, social media captions, and other creative content.
• Own and evolve Sledge's brand voice, positioning, and content guidelines.
• Write copy across the website, product, marketing, sales, and company materials.
• Write PR materials, press releases, and news articles.
• Write outreach, comms, and newsletters.
• Maintain voice consistency with sentence case, no em dashes, no jargon.
• Translate technical product details into plain, contractor-friendly language.
• Collaborate with the marketing and founding team on fast-moving launch timelines.

Skills

Portfolio writing

Editing

Short sentences

Tone adaptation

Startup pace

Trades audience bonus

Job description

About Sledge

From bid to build to paid. From the office to the field to the entire company. Sledge is Construction AI.Sledge is the agentic, AI-native operating system for construction, handling the busywork of running a construction business so builders can spend more time building and less time on paperwork. Built for subcontractors and small to mid-size general contractors, Sledge is already live with a growing group of beta users. You'd be joining early, with real room to shape the brand from the ground up.

About the Role

Sledge is hiring a Copywriter to own how Sledge sounds and how it's positioned, across everything with text on it. This role reports to the marketing team. That means the website, the product, marketing, sales, company materials, PR, blogs, news articles, press, outreach, comms, and newsletters. Sledge has a specific voice: plain-spoken, confident, and direct, the way a foreman talks at the end of the day. Every line should pass the Mike test. Would a 45-year-old general contractor say this out loud to another contractor over a beer? If not, it gets rewritten. We want someone who writes it themselves, not someone who prompts a generator. No AI-generated copy. If your samples read like they came out of ChatGPT, this role isn't a fit.

What You'll Do

Write and edit blog posts, social media captions, and other creative contentOwn and evolve Sledge's brand voice, positioning, and content guidelinesWrite copy across the website, product, marketing, sales, and company materialsWrite PR materials, press releases, and news articlesWrite outreach, comms, and newslettersKeep Sledge's voice consistent everywhere it shows up, in sentence case, no em dashes, no jargonTurn technical product details into plain, concrete language a contractor would actually useWork closely with the marketing and founding team on a fast moving launch timeline

What We’re Looking For

A strong portfolio of writing you wrote yourself, ideally web, product, or marketing copyA sharp editing eye and a short-sentence, one-idea-at-a-time instinctComfortable adapting tone across a website, a product screen, and a social post in the same dayComfortable moving at startup speed, taking a brief and running with itBonus: experience writing for a trades, construction, or blue-collar audience

Perks & Benefits

Fully remote, work from anywhere in the worldFlexible hours, work when you're most productiveDirect access to the marketing and founding team, no layers of managementShape Sledge's voice from the ground up

Equal Opportunity

Sledge is an equal opportunity employer. Sledge welcomes applicants of every background and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status.