Location
San Anselmo, CA | United States
Job description
POSITION: Copywriter
HOURS: M-F, 9 am-6 pm local time
LOCATION: Remote
SALARY RANGE: Commensurate based on experience; Salary negotiable
Guru seeks an experienced advertising and marketing copywriter (5+ years in an agency setting) to join our full-time staff. This position will work in close partnership with Guru’s creative director, art directors, designers, and client team to generate creative solutions across channels for brands who are impacting the world in the most conscious ways. This person must be experienced with both creative concepting and copywriting for web/digital media and print/traditional channels), short-form and long-form content.
Agency experience is also a requirement, as is working within a copy/visual creative team.
Location: We welcome your remote (but U.S.-based) location, as we are a virtual team with employees across the United States and hubs in California and Burlington, VT.
The priorities for this role include:
- Receiving, reviewing and researching a creative brief and discussing its strategy and objectives with a team.
- Conceptual thinking (alone and in partnership with an AD or designer), as well as polishing, presenting, and articulating concepts outside of copywriting execution.
- Polished and inspiring copywriting across all channels, with skill at communicating with and convincing consumers.
- Speaking up with a point of view while reviewing art direction and design with an attitude of joint ownership for the final product.
- Presenting to both internal teams and clients.
- Understanding the importance of representing our clients’ brands in the work.
- Researching your ideas and your copy to ensure that all the content being advertised is truthful, accurate and complies with codes of advertising practice.
- Quickly researching and inhabiting the mind set of new audiences, to assure effective communications.
- Being expert in the art and science of advertising and communications - with the intent of moving specific target audiences.
- Handling feedback professionally and tending to copy editing and revisions in a timely way.
- Pushing for the most well crafted and effective final executions.
Guru’s copywriters must possess the following qualities:
- Creativity and imagination
- Exceptional conceptual and copywriting skills
- Passion for the excellence of the final product
- Understanding of brand and strategy
- Work well in a team, but be self-directed enough to work alone, given our remote culture.
- Possess incredible time management skills that allow you to prioritize across multiple clients.
- Ability to work under high pressure deadlines.
- Ability to juggle multiple assignments and campaigns simultaneously
- An eye for detail
- A healthy ego paired with humility and desire to collaborate
- An interest in conscious commerce, popular culture, and new advertising trends and techniques.
- Proven track record with a compelling portfolio of diverse work.
- Excellent presentation skills.
Is that you? Please submit a cover letter, resume and portfolio link or relevant work samples to [email protected].
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