Senior Copywriter

Blue Chip; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K contributions

Flexible PTO & holidays

Rewards & recognition program

Bonus eligibility

Summer hours

Job summary

Blue Chip is seeking a Senior Copywriter to drive conceptual development for a wide range of B2B and B2C clients. You will collaborate with the Creative Director and Sr. Art Director to shape creative concepts and lead junior copywriters when needed.

You will defend work to clients and internal teams, helping to define brand voice and tone across channels while advancing your craft in a dynamic agency environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college.
• 5+ years of copywriting and proofing experience in agency environment.
• Excellent proofreading skills a must.
• CPG client & shopper marketing experience a plus.
• Healthcare experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead conceptual development for B2B and B2C campaigns, either own work or managing copywriters.
• Collaborate with the Creative Director, Associate Creative Director and Senior Art Director to ideate and concept.
• Lead conceptual thinking from a copy perspective.
• Contribute to brand personality and tone across channels.
• Present and defend work to clients and internal teams.

Skills

Copywriting

Proofreading

Concept development

Client relations

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

The Senior Copywriter (SRCW) is responsible for the conceptual development of creative for a wide variety of B2B and B2C clients and media, as well as the occasional management of junior level copywriting staff. Beyond this, the SRCW possesses the ability to not only concept critically, strategically, and visually, but must know how to present and defend that work both internally and externally. The SRCW so much more than the writer or architect of words, they are an imaginative and inventive force of storytelling. Together with their Sr. Art Director counterpart, the SRCW will fine-tune their storytelling craft and contribute to ideation sessions with other members of the agency.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Creative Responsibilities

• Contributes to the conceptual & artistic look and feel for a variety of integrated assignments, either through their own work or the management of copywriters.
• Collaborates closely with the Creative Director, Associate Creative Director and Senior Art Director to ideate and concept creative.
• The SRCW is expected to lead the conceptual thinking from a copy standpoint.
• Contributes to the creative vision of the brand’s personality & tone across all channels.

Client Responsibilities

• Provides strong POV on all integrated work to all creative leaders and clients when necessary.

Team Responsibilities

• Continues to evolve in their progressive creative thinking, going beyond purely. executional objectives and contributes broader creative ideas and brings them to their ACD or CD managers.
• Maintains knowledge and dissemination of ongoing exploration of what is the cutting edge in design, copy and concepting in the industry.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or university preferred
• 5+ years of copywriting and proofing experience in agency environment required
• Additional Experience: Excellent proofing skills a must and CPG client & shopper
• marketing or healthcare experience a plus
• 401K Contributions
• Flexible PTO Policy & Generous Holiday Schedule
• Rewards & Recognition Program
• Bonus Eligibility
• Summer Hours

The pay range for this position in Illinois is expected to be between $70,000 to $90,000 per Year. However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective considerations

Blue Chip is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion by cultivating a workplace that values and celebrates unique perspectives. We infuse DE&I principles into our campaigns, ensuring representation, cultural sensitivity, and authenticity, creating messages that resonate with diverse audiences and fostering an inclusive marketing landscape