Senior Copywriter (Remote)

SimpsonScarborough; Alexandria (VA); Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing firm is seeking a talented copywriter to join their fully remote team. You will craft compelling narratives for various campaigns while ensuring high-quality, strategic work. Ideal candidates have a strong portfolio and at least four years of agency experience. This role emphasizes collaboration and creativity, contributing to impactful branding efforts across clients in the education sector.

Qualifications

• At least four (4) years of agency copywriting experience is required.
• A competitive portfolio of creative work (copywriting) from the past four (4) years.
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and, at times, stressful environment.

Responsibilities

• Write compelling headlines, copy, and ‘calls to action’ for a range of brand creative deliverables.
• Define brand voices that are joyfully disruptive and unapologetically distinctive.
• Work collaboratively with peers to sharpen conceptual ideas and executional details.

Skills

Agency copywriting experience

Time management

Collaboration with remote teams

Job description

At SimpsonScarborough, we spend our days building brands that endure, inspire, and elevate the all-important work of colleges and universities in shaping our future. Recognized as a leader in the higher ed marketing industry, our company runs a fully remote team of approximately 65 employees coast to coast.

We are a growing team looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic new member. We expect a lot from our team members and champion their successes. Requirements:

• Write compelling headlines, copy, and ‘calls to action’ for a range of brand creative deliverables, including media campaigns, social media content, printed materials, environmental branding, audio ads
• Write brand narratives that support and sell the underlying creative idea of a brand or campaign concept to the client and stakeholders. Contribute fresh, conceptual ideas that communicate a client’s strategic message in bold and engaging ways.
• Define brand voices that are joyfully disruptive and unapologetically distinctive in the market.
• Produce and deliver consistently high-quality creative work that’s smart, strategic, and human in a way that communicates the real emotional benefits of the messages our clients need to communicate. That’s how SimpsonScarborough produces results.
• Create effective verbal systems for brands and campaigns, as well as rubrics for use via brand guidelines.
• Work collaboratively with peers to sharpen conceptual ideas and executional details so that we’re consistently delivering high-value, high-impact creative work that the agency can take pride in.
• Provide words and phrases to collaborators on other teams who could use some support from a professional writer to make their work as powerful as possible for our clients. Share your contributions in these exchanges with your manager for visibility.

Qualifications:

• At least four (4) years of agency copywriting experience is required.
• Any combination of education and relevant work experience.
• A competitive portfolio of creative work (copywriting) from the past four (4) years.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and escalate deviations and changes when appropriate.
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and, at times, stressful environment.
• Comfortable collaborating with remote project teams nationwide.

At SimpsonScarborough, we believe diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are central to our core values, cultural norms, and critical to our long-term success. We believe this work is a continual effort that requires consistency, intentionality, vulnerability and accountability for ourselves and others. Through our efforts we strive to make impact in our work, in our workplace and in our industry.

SimpsonScarborough is an equal opportunity employer. We have a strict anti-harassment policy and a no tolerance non-discrimination policy. We welcome employees of all backgrounds regardless of nationality, race, religion, gender identity, veteran status, and all characteristics protected by state and federal law.

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