DTE (Contract) Editor

Codeword; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

Codeword is seeking a DTE (Contract) Editor to join their remote-first team. This critical role involves editing, collaborating with teams, and ensuring content adheres to client style guidelines. You will work with influential tech clients in a fast-paced environment, leveraging your writing and editing skills to produce compelling content that meets specified deadlines.

Benefits

Flexible work hours

20 days paid vacation annually

401k and financial wellness support

Health Insurance

Home office allowance

Bi-annual Wellness Credits

Monthly Technology Credit

Comprehensive Parental Leave Policy

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in content or related field.
• Top-notch writing and editing skills.
• Experience meeting deadlines while juggling multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Editing copy from non-writers.
• Collaborating with colleagues in Design, Accounts, and Strategy.
• Updating internal communications content.

Skills

Editing

Detail-oriented

Writing

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Marketing, or related field

Tools

CMS

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About Us

Codeword is a communication design agency that helps brands create breakthrough comms, content, and community experiences.

About Us

Codeword is a communication design agency that helps brands create breakthrough comms, content, and community experiences.

We’re a fast-moving team of writers, editors, designers, strategists, videographers, PR mavens, and even a few traditional marketers.

Our incredible roster of big and small tech clients trust us to launch their startups, run multi-channel campaigns, grow their user bases, and lead comprehensive PR and marketing initiatives. We’re storytellers and brand engineers, and we love big ideas that serve a real purpose.

Codeword is a remote-first agency, though we have physical offices in NYC and SF that we won’t make you visit.

About You

• 3–5 years of experience in Content, Marketing, Journalism, Advertising, or a related field
• Detail-oriented and proactive in asking clarifying questions when needed
• Top-notch writing and editing skills, plus comfort navigating a CMS
• Ability to take complex subjects and present them in a way that’s both clear and interesting
• Experience meeting deadlines while juggling multiple projects
• Not shy about sharing your opinion with your team and clients (without being a jerk)
  
  

About This Role

The Editor reports to our amazing Editorial Director Tony Wild and is part of a team of writers, strategists, designers, and account people who work with some of the most influential companies in tech.

In this role, you’ll be critical to supporting one of our major clients on a defined-term contract for seven (7) months. You’ll update internal comms content so it adheres to the client’s in-house style guidelines and formatting requirements, with an emphasis on clarity and scannability. You’ll also work within CMSes to stage and publish these updates.

Collaboration is huge here: On any given day, you’ll be messaging or getting on calls with your fellow editors and writers, plus our phenomenal designers, strategists, and account managers. We group chat a lot. We encourage each other, celebrate each other’s stellar contributions, and volunteer thoughts on various issues even when they fall outside our comfort zones.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Editing copy from non-writers (e.g., subject matter experts, developers, technical experts, and C-suite executives)
• Getting to know the ins and outs of a CMS
• Collaborating with colleagues in Design, Accounts, and Strategy
• Honing your inner anthropologist to become an expert on your client’s audience
• Contributing on internal and external client status calls
• Responding with a GIF when it says so much more than words
• Over-sharing pictures of your pet and/or unpopular opinions about the latest show/movie/album
  
  

Your Compensation

People — that's you! — are the heart of our business, and we believe in pay transparency.

Our budget for this role is $40-50/hr, depending on experience.

Codeword Benefits

• Flexible work hours
• Minimum 20 days paid vacation annually
• 401k + financial wellness support
• Health Insurance (medical, dental, life, pet, mental health services)
• Home office allowance
• Bi-annual Wellness Credits
• Monthly Technology Credit (to offset internet / phone costs)
• Comprehensive Parental Leave Policy
  
  

A Few More Things You Should Know About Codeword

• The Codeword dream: Make good money doing work you care about with people you like.
• We love our clients (they write the checks!), which means maintaining a high bar for the creativity, smarts, responsiveness, and communication skills we offer them.
• We’re around 100 people, big enough to handle large-scale marketing programs, small enough that you’ll have an impact on our culture.
• We’re a friendly team, we look after each other, and we grow our careers together.
• We respect everyone’s personal life. After-hours emails are strongly frowned upon, night and weekend work is very rare, and employees are encouraged to pursue their side-hustles.
• We’re all grownups here, and we trust each other to get the work done, whether at home or in an office or a time zone on the other side of the world.
• We believe in defaulting to openness. Our calendars, our salary tiers, and our doors are open for all to see. (Except for secret client stuff, which we guard with our lives.)
• We’re a proud member of the global WE Communications family.
• Equal Opportunity: Codeword provides equal employment opportunity and doesn’t discriminate against employees or applicants because of age, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, or other legally protected class status.
• Diversity and Inclusion: Codeword works hard to foster a diverse team and an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
  
  

We aren’t a traditional agency, so we like to hire people who don’t necessarily fit the agency mold or check all the “right” boxes. If you’re on the fence about applying, please do!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Industries

  Real Estate, Financial Services, and Capital Markets

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