Senior Copywriter

UCLA Health; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

UCLA Health is seeking a Senior Copywriter to shape the brand voice and craft campaigns that build awareness and loyalty. You will report to the Senior Director of Brand Strategy and Creative within Marketing and partner with an Art Director while coordinating with leaders across the enterprise.

The role requires five+ years of strategic and creative leadership, a track record of delivering across media, and the ability to mentor staff.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years leading brand creative with proven results.
• Ability to unite diverse internal and external stakeholders around a strategic vision.
• Hands-on creative experience across digital, print, TV, out-of-home and experiential media.
• Ability to mentor and support less senior staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead brand copy and craft influential marketing campaigns.
• Collaborate with an art director and cross-functional teams across Marketing and enterprise.
• Set departmental goals and ensure alignment with organizational objectives.
• Apply advertising expertise to analyze and resolve complex challenges.
• Support UCLA Health’s growth through patient acquisition and recruitment efforts.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Creative leadership

Storytelling

Autonomy

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Job description

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm PST

Employment Type

Duration

Indefinite

Salary Range: $95400.00 - 208300.00 Annually

Salary Range: $95,400- $208,300/annually

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

As the Senior Copywriter at UCLA Health, you will help establish the brand’s creative voice through impactful marketing campaigns that strengthen its reputation and increase awareness, preference, and loyalty. Reporting to the Senior Director of Brand Strategy and Creative within Marketing, you will partner with a Senior Art Director and collaborate across the enterprise to create work that builds an emotional connection with audiences and contributes to UCLA Health’s growth.

You will:

• Use strategic insights to guide creative concept development and copywriting for brand marketing campaigns.
• Apply strategic thinking, conceptual capabilities, and strong writing craftsmanship across video, digital, experiential, social, and print.
• Partner with a Senior Art Director to develop creative campaigns.
• Establish departmental goals and objectives through the coordinated work of subordinate staff, ensuring accountability and alignment with departmental and organizational goals.
• Collaborate with senior leaders, executives, and colleagues across Strategic Marketing, Brand Strategy and Creative, Digital, Partnerships, the David Geffen School of Medicine, Development, and the enterprise.
• Apply advertising expertise and independent judgment to analyze and resolve complex, unstructured challenges.
• Manage programs as assigned, including formulating strategies and administering policies, processes, and resources.
• Create work that supports patient acquisition, staff and student recruitment, development, and UCLA Health’s growth.

Note: This position is fully on-site.

Job Qualifications

We’re seeking a talent and innovative writer with:

• At least five years of experience as a strategic and creative leader, with a proven track record of overseeing brand creative.
• Ability to set departmental goals and objectives and work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Ability to bring diverse internal and external stakeholders together around a shared strategic vision.
• Five years of hands‑on creative experience across digital, social, television, print, out-of-home, and experiential media.
• Ability to build meaningful relationships across a large organization and unite teams around a shared vision.
• Strong storytelling skills.
• Ability to balance multiple projects, stay positive and calm under pressure, and focus on solutions.
• Ability to mentor and support less senior staff.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer. Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.