Associate Copywriter
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SmartBug Media (51-200 Employees, 65% 2 Yr Employee Growth Rate)
24% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 65% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $0 Venture Funding
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Position Overview:
This position acts as the brand journalist on a portfolio of client accounts, working directly with the client and the consulting team to create award-winning content for the client. The associate copywriter plays a key role in conceiving and delivering clients’ written content and is a core member of the team. The associate copywriter is responsible for writing a variety of content including blogs, long-form pieces, emails, landing pages, and other miscellaneous copy.
The Day-to-Day:
- Utilize your ability to translate client strategy into creative, compelling copy
- Work within a cross-functional team to ideate and contribute to the editorial calendar for your clients by conceiving engaging titles and story angles
- Execute the client’s brand voice, tone, and messaging
- Create high-quality and differentiated copy in the form of blogs, e-books, case studies, headlines, web copy, emails, social and more
- Edit copy for style, grammar, logic, flow, repetition, and to ensure it’s on strategy
- Conduct in-depth research to learn new subjects or industries as needed
- Conduct interviews with subject matter experts
- Support your team to make sure deadlines are met
- Write in Chicago or AP styles as needed
- Other responsibilities as assigned
Experience and Education Requirements:
- Authorization to work in the U.S. without employer sponsorship is required
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field or related experience.
- Minimum of one (1) year of experience with writing and copy editing
- Experience conducting topic research and the correct use of references and citations
- Experience writing about B2B, technology, finance, and/or senior living, preferred
- Experience working remotely in similar roles, preferred
Interview Process:
- Phone screening
- Video call with Senior Copywriter
- Video call with VP of Creative
- Reference checking
- Final video interview with SmartBug’s COO
Our Extensive Employee Benefits Program Includes:
- Generous compensation package with performance incentives
- Health insurance with company contribution
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Paid vacation
- Paid time off
- 401(k) with employer matching
- Flexible spend plan
- Company-funded short-term disability and life insurance
- Long-term disability
- Annual leadership conference, SmartBugapalooza
- Training budget
- The flexibility of working remotely
About SmartBug Media™
SmartBug Media™ is a fully remote globally recognized Intelligent Inbound™ marketing agency that assists businesses in growing revenue through content marketing, sales enablement, web development, marketing automation, and PR. For over 10 years, SmartBug™ has helped businesses increase qualified leads, close customers, and enhance the reach and loyalty of their brands. We are a 90+ person remote company that believes you shouldn’t have to compromise work/life balance in order to deliver great work, and we believe that you can do this from anywhere. SmartBug has been named to the Inc. 5000 4 times, Adweek 100 the last two years, and has won numerous Comparably awards for its culture and leadership. SmartBug is HubSpot’s highest-rated partner in the world.