Copywriter - Freelance

160over90; Saint Louis (MI); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

160over90 is seeking a freelance Copywriter fluent in Portuguese to help elevate client work with culturally tuned storytelling. You’ll craft copy that resonates across media, from socials to presentations, and partner with creative and account teams to bring ideas to life.

The role demands 3–5 years of experience in both traditional and digital media, a deep understanding of Brazilian culture, and the ability to own projects from concept through delivery.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of copywriting experience across media.
• Fluent in Portuguese with strong cultural understanding of Brazilian context.
• Ability to own a project from concept to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Write effective and impactful copy across client work and platforms.
• Lead brainstorms, critique headlines and content across mediums.
• Collaborate with creative and account teams to meet client timelines.
• Build presentation decks and craft marketing solutions.

Skills

Portuguese fluency

Brazilian culture understanding

Traditional & digital media

Owns a project

3-5 years experience

Job description

Freelance Copywriter – Must be fluent in Portuguese

A laugh. A tear. A heart skipping a beat. A human reaction to something completely unexpected. This is what drives us. It’s also the inspiration for our name btw (an elevated blood pressure, since you ask).

As a growing strategy team within the global powerhouse of 160over 90, we take the mantle of digging deep into the cultural currents of what people most care about today and tomorrow; attaching a brand to the right and relevant insights…and guiding the way ideas come to life across every/any part the marketing spectrum.

Is your heart beating faster yet?

Who You Are:

First and foremost, you’re serially curious; about brands, about people and the world around us. How all of it is changing and evolving. You’re plugged into culture; Interested and inspired by the now and next. Simply put, you love to ask (and understand) why.

You appreciate the value of others. Because we ask our leaders to inspire creative teams and nurture teams of strategists. To power the collective that gets us to bigger and better; that gets us to wow. When in doubt, you do. Because you value courage over comfort. You always give a damn. About the client, the agency, the people and the work.

Success in this role requires the intellectual curiosity to stay at the forefront of cultural and category dynamics, the emotional intelligence to question and understand consumer behaviour and the collaborative spirit to work closely with internal creative, account, and project management teams. It also requires a certain confidence, gravitas and way with words (written and spoken) that means clients, listen.

Intrigued?

Responsibilities:

160 over 90 is elevated blood pressure. As our name suggests, we aim to make things that elicit an elevated emotional response. It’s all about elevation here. Elevating each other, the work, our clients, and the industry. To do that, we have priorities we live by:

• IDEAS over EXECUTIONS
• PARTNERSHIP over OWNERSHIP
• COURAGE over COMFORT
• CULTURE over EVERYTHING
• If you join us, all we ask is that you live by these priorities. And while you’re at it, come up with big platform ideas that work across all mediums, write effective and impactful copy that makes our clients and our agency famous, and help out whenever and wherever needed.
• Building presentation decks that bring ideas to life
• Actively leading in brainstorms and coming up with marketing solutions
• Critiquing headlines, body copy,social mediacontent,presentation decks, concept statements, ads, scripts, websites, and more
• Collaborate with internal departments and account team to ensure client timelines are met
• Participate in edits and proofing of content delivered to clients
• Identify opportunities for improvement
• Accountable for making sound decisions surrounding the financial performance
• Perform other duties as

Skills and Experience:

• 3-5 years of experience
• Understanding of how to create experiential events that generate content
• Experience in both traditional and digital media
• Ability to own a project, from beginning to end
• Fluent in Portuguese and has a strong cultural understanding of Brazilian culture

How we work:

Publicis Media is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 4 days per week. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.
Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the rate shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.

Hiring Rate Minimum:

$0 annually (minimum will not fall below the applicable state/local minimum salary thresholds)

Hiring Rate Maximum:

$0 annually