Senior Copywriter - Defense Tech & Brand Storytelling

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries, Inc. is seeking an experienced Copywriter to help share our story as we transform U.S. and allied defense through advanced technology.

You’ll join a team of marketers, working with Design, Comms and Business Line teams to craft clear, compelling copy across campaigns, product naming, social and more. The ideal candidate translates dense engineering and mission-focused work into human copy that connects company purpose with product capabilities, across a range of formats.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of copywriting experience at a top-tier agency, in-house at a recognized consumer brand, or a combination of both.
• An expansive portfolio showing work for major brands. Work in technical, hard tech, aerospace, or engineering categories is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to translate sophisticated technical subject matter into human copy that hits hard, without diluting the underlying truth, importance, or impact of the technology.
• Range across formats and surfaces: social, long-form, film, OOH, web, and product naming.
• Proven ability to take ambiguity and return strategic clarity, including framing the problem when nobody has framed it for you.
• Self-starter with the judgment to identify what needs writing and go write it, rather than working from a queue.
• Comfort working at speed alongside engineers, designers, and executives, and taking hard feedback on the work.
• Grit.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities

Responsibilities

• Define and document how we sound across social, web, print, and OOH.
• Turn dense engineering, brand moments and partnership activations into copy with a point of view, across headlines, body, manifestos, launch films, and campaign lines.
• Write social copy that cuts through and holds its own on quick turnaround timelines.
• Name new systems, platforms, and capabilities, and maintain the naming architecture in partnership with Product Marketing, Division Leads, Comms, and Design.
• Take a half-formed brief, a technical deep dive, and a room full of opinions, and come back with a strategic position and the words to express it.
• Drive scriptwriting in close partnership with the Anduril Design Dept. to inform treatments for video-driven campaigns.
• Work with Product Marketing, Design, Communications, Government Relations, and Recruiting so the voice stays consistent from a product page to a billboard to a job post.
• Create voice guidelines, messaging frameworks, and reusable copy systems that let other writers and non-writers produce work that sounds like us.

Skills

Copywriting

Portfolio

Multiformat writing

Strategic thinking

Self-starter

Collaboration with engineers

Grit

Job description

Anduril Industries, Inc. is seeking an experienced Copywriter to help share our story as we transform U.S. and allied defense through advanced technology.

You’ll join a team of marketers, working with Design, Comms and Business Line teams to craft clear, compelling copy across campaigns, product naming, social and more. The ideal candidate translates dense engineering and mission-focused work into human copy that connects company purpose with product capabilities, across a range of formats.