Senior Copywriter

What We Need

About Us:

Codeword is an agency of creative problem solvers who believe marketing doesn’t have to suck. 

We are a fast-growing, fast-moving team of writers, editors, designers, strategists, videographers, PR mavens, and even a few traditional marketers. We have an incredible roster of big and small tech clients for whom we manage editorial and social channels, develop smart marketing strategies, drive news coverage, and create big ideas.

Codeword is a remote-first agency, though we have physical offices in NYC, SF, and SLC that we won’t make you visit.

About You: 

• 6 years of experience in advertising or branding
• Creative and out-of-the-box writer who comes up with better descriptions than “out-of-the-box”
• Writes sparkly copy, adhering to brand voice and tone standards (which you’ll love for this particular client)
• Top-notch writing and concepting skills, in formats including positioning statements, taglines, brand naming, social media, web copy, video scripts, and brand manifestos
• Experience meeting deadlines while juggling multiple projects
• Not shy about sharing your opinion with your team and clients (without being a jerk)

About This Role: 

The senior copywriter will report to Suzan Clarke, a VP and editorial director (and a very smart human). You’ll be part of a team of editors, writers, strategists, designers, and account people tapped to work with one of the most influential companies in tech. You’ll support a wide range of creative projects from ideation to execution. 

In this role, you’ll be working closely with clients, ideating and pitching creative concepts, and executing across a wide range of creative projects. A little charisma in the room will be super helpful for this role. 

Please note that we don’t do a lot of traditional ad campaigns. You’ll build your book here with super strategic work for a big buzzy brand, but if you’re looking to win a bunch of awards, this miiiight not be the right role for you.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Leading creative ideation processes across Strategy, Editorial, and Design
• Developing high-quality creative across a range of formats
• Collaborating with colleagues in Design, Account, and Strategy
• Honing your inner anthropologist to become an expert on your client’s audience
• Pitching on-trend (and ahead-of-the-trend!) creative ideas
• Pitching ideas and campaigns, both internally and externally
• Responding with a GIF when it says so much more than words
• Over-sharing pictures of your pet and/or unpopular opinions about the latest show/movie/album

Your Compensation:

People — that's you! — are the heart of our business, and we believe a culture of pay transparency benefits both Codeword and our team members’ careers. 

For this role we’re looking to pay $100K–$120K, depending on experience.

Your Benefits:

• Flexible work hours
• Minimum 20 days paid vacation annually
• 401k financial wellness support
• Health Insurance (medical, dental, life, pet, mental health services) 
• Home office allowance
• Bi-annual Wellness Credits
• Monthly Technology Credit (to offset internet / phone costs)
• Every role is bonus eligible  
• Comprehensive Parental Leave Policy

A few more things you should know about Codeword:

• The Codeword dream: Make good money doing work you care about with people you like. 

• We love our clients (they write the checks!), which means maintaining a high bar for the creativity, smarts, responsiveness, and communication skills we offer them. 

• We’re around 100 people, big enough to handle large-scale marketing programs, small enough that you’ll have an impact on our culture. 

• We’re a friendly team, we look after each other, and we grow our careers together. 

• We respect everyone’s personal life. After-hours emails are strongly frowned upon, night and weekend work is very rare, and employees are encouraged to pursue their side-hustles. 

• We’re all grownups here, and we trust each other to get the work done, whether at home or in an office or a time zone on the other side of the world. 

• We believe in defaulting to openness. Our calendars, our salary tiers, and our doors are open for all to see. (Except for secret client stuff, which we guard with our lives.) 

• We’re a proud member of the global WE Communications family.

Equal Opportunity: Codeword provides equal employment opportunity and doesn’t discriminate against employees or applicants because of age, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, or other legally protected class status.

Diversity and Inclusion: Codeword works hard to foster a diverse team and an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.

We aren’t a traditional agency, so we like to hire people who don’t necessarily fit the agency mold or check all the “right” boxes. If you’re on the fence about applying, please do! 

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